Kubernetes Services in a Nutshell

Service is a resource you create to make a single, constant point of entry to a group of pods providing the same service. Each service has an IP address and port that never change while the service exists. Clients can open connections to that IP and port, and those connections are then routed to one of the pods backing that service. This way, clients of a service don’t need to know the location of individual pods providing the service, allowing those pods to be moved around the cluster at any time.

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Apache Cassandra for Developers Part 1

Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients.

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Concurrency in Elixir

Concurrency is a fundamental concept in Elixir, a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Elixir provides powerful tools and abstractions for managing concurrent processes, making it ideal for building scalable and fault-tolerant systems.

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