Zero-Downtime Restart
Discover how to implement zero-downtime restarts in Node.js applications to maintain continuous availability during updates. This lesson teaches you to use the cluster module to restart individual workers gracefully, ensuring no disruption of service while deploying new code versions, vital for professional and high-availability scenarios.
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A Node.js application might also need to be restarted when we want to release a new version to our production servers. So, in this scenario as well, having multiple instances can help maintain the availability of our application.
When we have to intentionally restart an application to update it, there’s a small window in which the application restarts and is unable to serve requests. This can be acceptable if we’re updating our personal blog, but it’s not even an option for a professional application with a service-level agreement (SLA) or one that’s updated very often as part of a continuous delivery process. The solution is to implement a zero-downtime restart, where the code of an application is updated without affecting its availability. ...