Cluster

Consistent Hashing is a cornerstone technology for distributed systems. Many of software developers don’t realize it, but Consistent Hashing is needed in many places: load balancers, caches, CDNs, id generators, databases, chats / social networks, and many other systems. This topic consists of: Problem with rehashing and why we need hashing to be CONSISTENT Hash space and hash ring BASIC approach (introduced by Karger et al. at MIT) Advanced approach with VIRTUAL NODES These items are disclosed in a very interesting Chapter 5 of the book:

Quite often the tooling is a forgotten area during the beginning of development. This chapter overlooks the tooling that can help build and maintain event-driven microservices. Useful checklist! This topic includes: Org rules Documentation, tagging Quotas Schema registry Offset management ACL State management and app reset Consumer offset lag monitoring Container Management Controls Cluster Creation and Management Dependency Tracking All of these is disclosed in the Chapter 14 of the book: