Must-Read
- Caching Strategies Cheat Sheet
- Beanstalk Cheat Sheet
- Lambda Cheat Sheet
- Simple Queue Service (SQS) Cheat Sheet
Tips
- Deployment options can be confusing as different services may have slightly different definitions and overlapping vocabularies, you need to at least be familiar with and be able to differentiate
- In-place deployment vs. Immutable deployment
- All-at-once vs. some-at-a-time (rolling, rolling + extra batch, etc.)
- Traffic shifting patterns (blue/green, canary, linear, all at once)
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