Cloud Computing, basic design concepts
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6 min readJul 23, 2020
The underlying architecture of the cloud is shared-nothing. A shared-nothing architecture is that one where a single component or node has its own CPU, memory, network, storage unit, etc. In a cloud environment, this is achieved thanks to Linux namespaces. Basically, Linux namespaces are the key features of containers, and containers are essential elements in a cloud environment.
Recently, many authors have advised that every node or micro-service should have its own database, maybe because in a shared-nothing architecture every node might have its own storage unit, but storage unit doesn’t necessarily mean database.
If you want to see some benchmarks and how shared-nothing behaves, you should see these articles.
