Month: March 2020
Distributed stream processing frameworks – what they are and how they perform
An overview on stream processing, common frameworks as well as some insights on performance based on benchmarking data
Isolation and Consistency in Databases
by Samuel Hack and Sebastian Wachter. Most people assume that the data coming from a database is correct. For most applications this is true, but when the databases are used in systems where the database is at its limit, this is no longer always the case. What happens if during a query of a value…
Autoscaling of Docker Containers in Google Kubernetes Engine
In this blog post we are taking a look at scaling possibilities within Kubernetes in a cloud environment. We are going to present and discuss various options that all have the same target: increase the availability of a service.