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Kubernetes is a cluster management tool open sourced by Google. On Software Engineering Daily, we’ve done numerous shows on how Kubernetes works in theory. Today’s episode is a case study in how to deploy Kubernetes to production at a company with existing infrastructure.

GolfNow is a fifteen year-old application written in C# .NET. It is a successful, growing business that is a division of NBC Sports. As GolfNow has grown, it has encountered scalability issues, and the engineering team at GolfNow decided to move its entire monolithic infrastructure to microservices running in Docker containers, managed by Kubernetes.

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In a microservices architecture, a user request will often make its way through several different services before it returns a result to the end user. If a user experiences a failed request, the root cause could be in any of the services along that request path. Even more problematic is the challenge of debugging latency in this kind of request chain.

Reshmi Krishna joins the show today to discuss distributed tracing, the process of tracking the path of a request through multiple services in order to determine the root cause of latency or errors. A popular tool for distributed tracing is Zipkin, which is largely based off of a paper published by Google called “Dapper”.

Reshmi is also speaking at the upcoming O’Reilly Velocity Conference in New York, September 20-22, so check that out if you are interested in web performance, continuous delivery, or anything else related to web and mobile development.

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“Serverless” usually refers to an architectural pattern where the server side logic is run in stateless compute containers that are event-triggered and ephemeral. Mike Roberts has written a series of articles about serverless computing, in which he discusses theories and patterns around serverless architecture.

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Unbounded data streams create difficult challenges for our application architectures. The data never stops coming, and we are forced to assume that we will never know if or when we have seen all of our data. Some streaming systems give us the tools to deal partially with unbounded data streams, but we have to complement those streaming systems with batch processing, in a technique known as the Lambda Architecture.

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Prometheus is a tool for monitoring our distributed applications. It allows us to focus on the services we are deploying rather than the individual machines that make up instances of that service.

The monitoring service itself is a portion of a distributed system that is treated differently than the services we are monitoring. We don’t want to use a consensus-based tool like Zookeeper or Consul because we can’t afford the strong consistency.

Brian Brazil’s company Robust Perception is built around Prometheus, and he joins the show to discuss why and how to use Prometheus.

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