Snapshots vs Backups

What is a snapshot? A snapshot is an image of your system/volume at a specific point in time. Snapshots and snapshotting technology is available on many enterprise technology systems e.g. Vmware. What...

API Gateway

What is an API Gateway? An API Gateway is a API management tool that sits between a client and a bunch of backend APIs. Its primary role is to act as a...

What is a CDN?

A content delivery network (CDN) is a bunch of servers distributed across the world which work together to provide fast delivery of internet content. Why use a CDN? Performance Research from fastly...

Achieving High Availability Using Modern Practices

The bank’s customers expect ours services to be available 24/7 i.e. have high availability. High availability (HA) is the ability of a system to operate continuously without failing for a designated period...

Load Balancing for Beginners

What is Load Balancing? Let’s imagine we have a web application on a server (web server) that’s working fine for 100 users. Users simply go to fabapp.com to access this hypothetical web...