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Cloud Technology28 Apr 20263 min read

Zero-downtime deploys on a single Linux server with atomic releases

You do not need a container platform to deploy without downtime. How atomic release directories, symlink switching, health checks, rollbacks and least-privilege deploy users give a single Linux server safe, repeatable deployments.

Cloud Technology4 Feb 20263 min read

Redis beyond caching: rate limits, locks, deduplication and queues

Redis is usually introduced as a cache, but its data structures solve many coordination problems. Practical patterns for rate limiting, distributed locks, request deduplication, queues and leaderboards, with their limits.