Week 3 - Platform Services Flashcards

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What is Apache?

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Apache is the most widely used HTTP server software (free and open-source)

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Why are load balancers important?

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they monitor and route network traffic from a pool of physical/virtual servers and distribute traffic evenly across the servers

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What is high availability?

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when load balancers detect when a server has failed and can reroute and balance traffic among the remaining servers

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What are databases?

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Allow us to store, query, filter and manage large amounts of data

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5
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What’s a database service?

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A database service is database software that you’re able to read/write from

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