"Tarantool Cartridge Architecture and Development"
"Tarantool Cartridge Architecture and Development" is the comprehensive guide for architects, developers, and DevOps professionals building scalable, distributed applications on the Tarantool platform. Beginning with Tarantool's in-memory database fundamentals and the genesis of the Cartridge framework, the book explores key cluster concepts—roles, replica sets, topology—and compares Cartridge's approach with other leading distributed data systems. Readers gain actionable insight into deployment models, use cases, and the architectural decisions that shaped Cartridge into a powerful, flexible backbone for cloud-native and mission-critical solutions.
Delving deeply into Cartridge's modular and dynamic architecture, the book addresses advanced topics such as instance orchestration, distributed configuration, API design, cluster security, and robust approaches to fault tolerance. Data sharding and partitioning are illuminated through detailed coverage of vshard's capabilities, sharding best practices, and resilience strategies—including real-world diagnostics for high availability and performance. Subsequent chapters systematically cover every aspect of reliable distributed operation: multi-mode replication, advanced consistency models, disaster recovery, geo-replication, and seamless topology changes.
Readers also benefit from hands-on patterns for application development and ongoing operations—role design, data modeling, test automation, observability, and CI/CD strategies—all contextualized within distributed Tarantool environments. The book closes with guidance on security and compliance, large-scale multi-tenant architectures, extensibility patterns, and proven lessons from production deployments. With its blend of conceptual clarity and practical detail, "Tarantool Cartridge Architecture and Development" stands as an authoritative resource for engineering resilient, agile, and performant distributed applications.