Jina 🤝 Linkerd

Let’s discuss today about a way to debug your Executors & Flows using Linkerd service mesh. What is a Service Mesh? From Linkerd docs A service mesh is a tool for adding observability, security, and reliability features to “cloud native” applications by transparently inserting this functionality at the platform layer rather than the application layer. Few of the commonly used service meshes are Linkerd, Istio, Consul etc. Why Linkerd? Significantly lighter than competitors. Basic request tracing with no additional config. Telemetry & monitoring exposing Golden metrics. The simplicity of its usage is mind-blowing. Just annotate the K8S Deployment, and you’re done. How does Linkerd work? While this majorly underestimates the magic Linkerd brings, here are the major components. Feel free to go through the architecture in official docs. ...

June 16, 2022 · 7 min · Deepankar Mahapatro

Jina ❤️ Serverless

What is Jina? From the Docs Jina is a framework that empowers anyone to build cross-modal and multi-modal applications on the cloud. What is serverless? From Wikipedia Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their customers. Also, “Serverless” is a misnomer in the sense that servers are still used by cloud service providers to execute code for developers. However, developers of serverless applications are not concerned with capacity planning, configuration, management, maintenance, fault tolerance, or scaling of containers, VMs, or physical servers. ...

June 15, 2022 · 4 min · Deepankar Mahapatro