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K6 Performance Testing: Find Your API Breaking Point Before Users Do

https://youtu.be/jCclH6C2d58?si=BKueQyKVkqTbVHIk K6 Performance Testing: Find Your API Breaking Point Before Users Do Discover how many users your API can handle with K6 load testing in just 3 simple commands The Performance Testing Blind Spot After deploying countless APIs to production, I’ve discovered three critical questions most developers can’t answer: ❌ Unknown Capacity – How many…

.NET Aspire Distributed Systems Kubernetes

Deployment to Kubernetes with Aspirate

https://youtu.be/h2mKx4XbZyA?si=zBylTgGHl9TEhm0E Deployment to Kubernetes with Aspirate Deploy your Aspire applications to Kubernetes with just 3 simple commands The Aspire Roadblocks After working extensively with .NET Aspire, I’ve identified three critical limitations: ❌ No Horizontal Scaling – You cannot scale from one service instance to multiple instances. ❌ Zero Resource Controls – No way to limit…

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.NET Aspire Distributed Systems

.NET Aspire: Control Panel, Observability & IaaC

https://youtu.be/a5vMDE463pc .NET Aspire: Control Panel, Observability & IaaC Master .NET Aspire’s three most powerful features for cloud-native development The Cloud-Native Development Challenges Building distributed systems traditionally involves complex orchestration and scattered monitoring tools. Here are the three biggest pain points developers face: Complex Resource Management – Managing multiple services, databases, and message queues requires juggling…

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Distributed Systems Fundamentals

Distributed Systems for Beginners: Why You Can’t Just Use One Server

https://youtu.be/0eRLH31g8xU?si=o7LzrCIHmAc90YdD Distributed Systems for Beginners: Why You Can’t Just Use One Server In the world of modern web applications and cloud services, have you ever wondered why platforms like YouTube, Uber, Spotify, or Facebook don’t just run everything on one super-powerful server? The answer lies at the heart of distributed systems — a fundamental design…

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Distributed Systems Fundamentals

Getting started: Distributed Systems

Welcome to IggyCloud Have you ever wondered how apps like YouTube, Netflix, or Instagram handle millions of users at once without crashing? The answer is distributed systems. These systems are like teams of computers working together to get things done — faster, safer, and more reliably. At IggyCloud, I want to make these complex topics…