EP 41: What’s Kubernetes?

This week’s system design refresher:

• New Machine Studying System Design Interview E-book

• What’s Kubernetes? (Youtube video)

• Microservice structure

• 2-factor authentication

• Wed meeting

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Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2 Visible Search System
Chapter 3 Google Road View Blurring System
Chapter 4 YouTube Video Search
Chapter 5 Dangerous Content material Detection
Chapter 6 Video Suggestion System
Chapter 7 Occasion Suggestion System
Chapter 8 Advert Click on Prediction on Social Platforms
Chapter 9 Related Listings on Trip Rental Platforms
Chapter 10 Personalised Information Feed
Chapter 11 Individuals You Could Know

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The diagram beneath reveals why real-time gaming and low-latency buying and selling functions shouldn’t use microservice structure.

There are some frequent options of those functions, which make them select monolithic structure:

• These functions are very latency-sensitive. For real-time gaming, the latency must be on the milli-second stage; for low-latency buying and selling, the latency must be on the micro-second stage. We can’t separate the companies into completely different processes as a result of the community latency is insufferable.

• Microservice structure is normally stateless, and the states are endured within the database. Actual-time gaming and low-latency buying and selling must retailer the states in reminiscence for fast updates. For instance, when a personality is injured in a recreation, we don’t need to see the replace 3 seconds later. This sort of person expertise can kill a recreation.

• Actual-time gaming and low-latency buying and selling want to speak to the server in excessive frequency, and the requests must go to the identical operating occasion. So net socket connections and sticky routing are wanted.

So microservice structure is designed to resolve issues for sure domains. We’d like to consider “why” when designing functions.

👉 Over to you: Have you ever met comparable conditions at work when it’s a must to select an structure apart from microservice?

Google authenticator is usually used for logging into our accounts when 2-factor authentication is enabled. How does it assure safety?
  
Google Authenticator is a software-based authenticator that implements a two-step verification service. The diagram beneath gives element. 

There are two phases concerned:

• Stage 1 – The person allows Google’s two-step verification 

• Stage 2 – The person makes use of the authenticator for logging in, and many others.

Let’s have a look at these phases.
 
Stage 1
Steps 1 and a couple of: Bob opens the net web page to allow two-step verification. The entrance finish requests a secret key. The authentication service generates the key key for Bob and shops it within the database.
 
Step 3: The authentication service returns a URI to the entrance finish. The URI consists of a key issuer, username, and secret key. The URI is displayed within the type of a QR code on the net web page.
 
Step 4: Bob then makes use of Google Authenticator to scan the generated QR code. The key secret’s saved within the authenticator.
 
Stage 2
Steps 1 and a couple of: Bob desires to log into a web site with Google two-step verification. For this, he wants the password. Each 30 seconds, Google Authenticator generates a 6-digit password utilizing TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) algorithm. Bob makes use of the password to enter the web site.
 
Steps 3 and 4: The entrance finish sends Bob’s password to the backend for authentication. The authentication service reads the key key from the database and generates a 6-digit password utilizing the identical TOTP algorithm because the shopper.
 
Step 5: The authentication service compares the 2 passwords generated by the shopper and the server, and returns the comparability outcome to the entrance. Bob can proceed with the login course of provided that the 2 passwords match.
 
Is that this authentication mechanism protected? 

• Can the key key be obtained by others? 
  We’d like to verify the key secret’s transmitted utilizing HTTPS. The authenticator shopper and the database retailer the key key, and we have to guarantee the key keys are encrypted.

• Can the 6-digit password be guessed by hackers?
  No. The password has 6 digits, so the generated password has 1 million potential combos. Plus, the password adjustments each 30 seconds. If hackers need to guess the password in 30 seconds, they should enter 30,000 combos per second.

👉 Over to you: What are a few of the different 2-factor authentication gadgets you used?

What’s net meeting (WASM)? Why does it appeal to a lot consideration?

The diagram reveals how we will run native C/C++/Rust code inside an online browser with WASM.

Historically, we will solely work with Javascript within the net browser, and the efficiency can’t evaluate with native code like C/C++ as a result of it’s interpreted.

Nonetheless, with WASM, we will reuse present native code libraries developed in C/C++/Rust, and many others to run within the net browser. These net functions have near-native efficiency.

For instance, we will run the video encoding/decoding library (written in C++) within the net browser.

This opens lots of prospects for cloud computing and edge computing. We are able to run serverless functions with fewer sources and on the spot startup time.

Over to you: Are you conversant in WASM or have you ever used it within the office?