Load Balancing

Read more about the article Nginx vs Apache vs Caddy: What Actually Decides It in Real Projects

Nginx vs Apache vs Caddy: What Actually Decides It in Real Projects

Benchmarks pick the wrong winner. Here is how Nginx, Apache and Caddy actually differ in production: how each one fails under load, who owns certificate renewal, and where configuration lives when a developer needs to change it. Includes a decision procedure and the mistakes I see most.

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Read more about the article Kubernetes Zero-Downtime Rollouts: Why Your Readiness Probe Isn’t Saving You

Kubernetes Zero-Downtime Rollouts: Why Your Readiness Probe Isn’t Saving You

Readiness probes are necessary for Kubernetes zero-downtime rollouts, but they only close one of four gaps. Here is what actually drops requests during a deploy: the race between SIGTERM and endpoint propagation, probes that lie, surge settings that quietly delete capacity, and load balancers that never watched EndpointSlices in the first place.

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