Week 3 - Platform Services Flashcards
1
Q
What is Apache?
A
Apache is the most widely used HTTP server software (free and open-source)
2
Q
Why are load balancers important?
A
they monitor and route network traffic from a pool of physical/virtual servers and distribute traffic evenly across the servers
3
Q
What is high availability?
A
when load balancers detect when a server has failed and can reroute and balance traffic among the remaining servers
4
Q
What are databases?
A
Allow us to store, query, filter and manage large amounts of data
5
Q
What’s a database service?
A
A database service is database software that you’re able to read/write from
