Piling up containers
Modern systems are usually built as stacks made up of multiple components that are distributed over networks, such as application servers, caches, databases, and message queues. Each individual component is also a self-contained system with many sub-components. What's more, the rising trend of microservices introduces additional degrees of complexity into these entangled relationships between systems. Because of this, even though container technology gives us a certain degree of relief regarding deployment tasks, coordinating components in a system is still difficult.
Let's say we have a simple application called kiosk, which connects to a redis to manage how many tickets we currently have. Once a ticket is sold, it publishes ...
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