Introduction In today's fast-paced world, the concept of mental strength is often glorified. We admire individuals who appear unyielding, those who tackle challenges head-on without showing signs of strain. However, beneath this facade of resilience ...
As businesses expand globally, ensuring high availability, low latency, and fault tolerance for applications is critical. A multi-region AWS architecture helps achieve resilience by distributing workloads across multiple AWS regions. This post explor...
In Layer 2 Ethernet networks, resilience is key. Unlike Layer 3, where routing protocols dynamically reroute traffic, Layer 2 has limited options when it comes to path redundancy. Enter Link Aggregation (LAG)—a method that allows multiple physical li...
When London Heathrow Airport—one of the busiest airports in the world—grounded to a halt due to a power failure, it wasn’t just a minor inconvenience. It was a textbook example of why relying on a single point of failure (SPOF) is a recipe for disast...
Imagine your favourite streaming app crashes during peak hours r an e-commerce site freezes during a flash sale, because one recommendation service fails. Sound familiar? In microservices, a single weak link can drag down the entire system. That’s wh...
Data Consitency - why it is so important? Achieving perfect consistency can be challenging and often unnecessary especially when we talk in according to microservice or Event-Driven Architecture styles. Unlike immediate consistency, which ensures tha...
You know the type. The IT guy who thinks he's the second coming of Steve Jobs, wearing his "Keep It Simple" mantra like a badge of honour. "Why complicate things? Just one last-mile link is fine!" he says. Ja, right. 🤦♂️ Now, picture this: A lekker...
Introducing .NET 8 resilience packages built on top of Polly has made it much easier to build robust HTTP clients. These packages provide standard resilience handlers that you can easily attach to HttpClient instances. They implement common patterns ...
Picture this: a child with a wild imagination, immersed in a sea of vibrant colors, with splashes of paint not only covering the canvas but adorning their face, arms, and even the walls around them. That child was me, Samer. From a young age, my pass...
When thinking about how to explain the resilience of a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solution leveraging multiple links, there’s no better metaphor than a dually truck setup. For those unfamiliar, a dually truck has dual rear wheels on ...
