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Cloud Native Patterns
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Cloud Native Patterns

by Cornelia Davis
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 2m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 5. App redundancy: Scale-out and statelessness

This chapter covers

  • Scale-out as a central tenet of cloud-native apps
  • Pitfalls of stateful apps in cloud-native software
  • What it means for an app to be stateless
  • Stateful services and how they’re used by stateless apps
  • Why sticky sessions shouldn’t be used

The title says “Scale-out,” but really, it’s not just a matter of scaling. There are many reasons for what is probably the core tenet of cloud-native software: redundancy. Whether your application components are micro or macro, whether they can be configured via environment variables or have config baked into property files, whether they fully implement fallback behaviors or not, a key to change tolerance is that there is no single ...

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