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A Comprehensive Guide for SREs Build Foundational Knowledge on How etcd fits into the Kubernetes Ecosystem etcd is the single source-of-truth data store for the Kubernetes cluster. As a Key-Value store with advanced features, etcd stores mission-critical Kubernetes data: configuration data, the cluster state and metadata. This information is key for the Kubernetes cluster to scale and self-heal. If etcd malfunctions, it can cause failures on the Kubernetes cluster.

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AWS Batch on Fargate is an AWS offering that combines the benefits of AWS Fargate—a serverless compute engine for deploying and managing containers—with AWS Batch, a fully managed service for running batch workloads. Leveraging a pay-per-use pricing model and automatic scaling, AWS Batch on Fargate provides you with a cost-effective and scalable solution for running batch computing workloads without needing to worry about managing any underlying infrastructure.

Each day, more than 70 million active users sign into Roblox to create, play, and interact with each other through virtual experiences. And regardless of what those experiences are, exactly — adopting a pet, completing an obstacle course, or fulfilling orders at a virtual pizza parlor — the Roblox observability team is dedicated to making them seamless.

For IT operations teams running modern networks, the work can be challenging and thankless. These teams don’t ever receive congratulatory messages from executives when a video conference operates flawlessly—they only hear complaints when those sessions are problematic.

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Earlier this year, we upgraded from Confluent Platform 7.0.10 to 7.6.0. While the upgrade went smoothly, there was one thing that was different from previous upgrades: due to changes in the metadata format for Confluent’s Tiered Storage feature, all of our tiered storage metadata files had to be converted to a newer format.