Does Your Cloud Quiesce? It Should.

#cloud #sdn Without the ability to gracefully shutdown the "contraction" side of elasticity may be problematic Quiescence, in a nutshell, is your mom telling you to "finish what you're doing...
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Oct 01, 2015
There's an argument that the app itself should handle both graceful quiesce by ceasing to listen on the service port but also sudden process death with a queuing backend that returns activity to the queue for replay. See 12 Factor App "processes" and "disposability" principles for a better statement.