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Thanks for the shoutout, Saurabh! 🙌 When I read Cell-based Architecture, I instantly thought of load balancing. How do the two compare? Would load balancing, like Elastic Load Balancing on AWS, be a type of cell-based architecture?

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Happy to share the great article you wrote Akos! 🙌

Cell-based architecture and Load Balancing are somewhat related concepts. But I'd describe it more as load balancers being part of a cell in a cell-based architecture.

A cell consists of workloads that are independent from other cells. Like a tenant within a multi-tenant system. Even if a cell (consisting of services, load balancer, and databases) fails, it has no impact on other cells running the same workload.

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Thanks for the clarification! 🤝

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Helm chart with K8s, what a powerful combo, enabling zero-downtime deployments. Great post my friend!

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Indeed a very powerful combination Daniel!

Would definitely love to explore it in more detail in a future edition...

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