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There are many different ways to run a Kubernetes cluster, from setting everything up manually to using a lightweight distribution like K3s. K3s is a Kubernetes distribution built for IoT and edge computing and is excellent for running on low-powered devices like Raspberry Pis. However, you aren’t limited to running it on low-powered hardware; it can be used for anything from a Homelab up to a Production cluster.
When looking for a highly scalable time series database, there are a number of criteria to investigate and evaluate. First up, it’s always a good idea to consider open source software. It’s more likely to have gone through comprehensive troubleshooting, it’s typically more reliable as it has more timely and widespread peer-review, it better guarantees technology independence, it’s easier to find engineers who are familiar with it and it has great security.
What happens when the tools and services you depend on to drive Site Reliability Engineering turn out to be susceptible to reliability failures of their own? That’s the question that teams at about 400 businesses have presumably had to ask themselves this month in the wake of a major outage in Atlassian Cloud.
