In this episode of Running in Production, Dave Blakey goes over how their load balancing service (Nova) handles 33,000+ events per second across a 100+ server Kubernetes cluster that runs on both AWS and DigitalOcean. There’s a sprinkle of Serverless thrown in too.
If you ever wondered how a large scale app is developed and deployed, you’re in for a treat. Some of Nova’s clients spend $5,000,000+ a month on hosting fees. We covered everything from development best practices, how to create a scalable application architecture and how they replicate their environment across multiple cloud providers and regions.
P.S., Nova is also really useful for small sites too and they have a free tier with no strings attached, so you may want to give it a try. After this episode the first thing I thought was “wtf, why am I not using this?”. I’m going to start playing with it over the holidays for my own sites.
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