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Operational Patterns

Mitigating Deployment Risk in Microservice Architectures: The Quarantine Operational Pattern

Quarantining is essential in reducing deployment risk. This post explores the pattern and its support in Kubernetes, Istio and Glasnostic.
Pei-Ming Wu
· 12 min read
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Preventing Systemic Failure: Bulkheads in Microservice Architectures

Microservices architectures lead to emergent behaviors that must be managed. The bulkhead operational pattern helps contain such failures.
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Operational Patterns

How Canary Deployments Work, Part 2: Developer vs. Operator Concerns

Developers and operators have differing views of canary deployments. This post lays out why canaries are best run by operations teams.
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· 10 min read
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Operational Patterns

How Canary Deployments Work, Part 1: Kubernetes, Istio and Linkerd

Canaries are a great step towards deploying to production. In this post, we compare how popular projects support their implementation.
Pei-Ming Wu
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Operational Patterns

Preventing Systemic Failure: Circuit Breaking—What it is and How it Works, Part 2

Circuit breaking can minimize the impact of failures, prevent them from cascading and assure performance. This post explores its use over time.
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Operational Patterns

Preventing Systemic Failure: Circuit Breaking—What it is and How it Works, Part 1

Circuit breaking can minimize the impact of failures, prevent them from cascading and assure performance. This post looks at the pattern.
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Operational Patterns

Preventing Systemic Failure: Backpressure—What It Is and How It Works

Backpressure is a fundamental technique to prevent systems from potential collapse. This post discusses the operational pattern and how to apply it.
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Operational Patterns

Security: Segmentation—What Is It and How Does It Work?

Segmentation is a fundamental to securing and insulating workloads. This post explains how to apply the pattern to endpoints in a microservices environment.
Yu-Han Lin
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