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Horizontally Scaling Your Service with Kubernetes Pods

Horizontally Scaling Your Service with Kubernetes Pods

Your app is starting to pick up and get traffic! When you first launch, traffic is usually slow and it’s totally fine to have everything on one machine at the beginning. As you grow and more people hear about your application, traffic starts to get spikier and you have

Using Python and Kubernetes for Cron Jobs

Using Python and Kubernetes for Cron Jobs

Another day, another manual database cleanup. It’s not that it’s hard to do, it’s worse, it’s boring and tedious. Why not take the software developer’s way out and spend some time to find a way to automate the solution? Using Python, Kubernetes, and Cron Jobs

Python Coroutines and the Cloud

Python Coroutines and the Cloud

If you commonly use Python, you’ve probably noticed one of the biggest disadvantages of the language, it has no true parallelism. Python’s Global Interpreter Lock [https://wiki.python.org/moin/GlobalInterpreterLock] (GIL) prevents true parallelism. However, we can achieve a level of concurrency and virtual parallel computing using

You Don't Need Kubernetes, You Need an Application Framework

You Don't Need Kubernetes, You Need an Application Framework

A Platform for Platforms Since becoming the industry standard, Kubernetes continues to draw controversy on whether it's the right solution for rapidly growing startups. Some developers argue that it only makes sense for Google-scale companies, while others happily use it for personal, small scale projects. Both sides are right. Kubernetes