Thirukural - the beautiful expression of real-life in 7 words

Last week someone I knew, told me he met a young Doctor in Bengaluru practicing as GP in a clinic he attended for some ailment. He was intrigued that he shared a common last name as me. He told me that he was very mature in talking, understanding the problems, and diagnosis, and he said being a Gez Z his behavior was way beyond his young age!... Curiosity invoked I asked him which clinic he was talking about and he said Kaggadaspura clinikk health hub.

I was pleasantly surprised, I asked him what was the Dr's name - he told me it was Dr.Visagan Gugan!

I told him that he shared the same last name because he was my SON!

What a coincidence...

This brought to my fore one of my favorite Thirukurral verses.

Kural 69

ஈன்ற பொழுதின் பெரிதுவக்கும் தன்மகனைச்
சான்றோன் எனக்கேட்ட தாய்

Transliteration

When a mother hears him named 'fulfill'd of wisdom's lore,' Far greater joy she feels, than when her son she bore

 Plain Explanation  

The mother who hears her son called "a wise man" will rejoice more than she did at his birth

For those who do not know Thirukural, a small introduction to this great scripture -

 The Tirukkuṟaḷ or shortly the Kural (Tamil: குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. In short, each Kural is a beautiful poetry of life skill coaching material,  the scripture is estimated to be more than 2000 years old, and written by a Saint named Thiruvalluvar.

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There are far too many good couplets to quote, but keeping the "Wealth of Children" chapter in focus, the following is a  further reference to this great scripture:

https://www.thirukkural.net/en/kural/adhigaram-007.html

Why Bulkhead architecture

The bulkhead architecture is used to build fault tolerance, its a common application design that is tolerant of failure. In this architecture, elements of an application are isolated into pools so that if one fails, the others will continue to function. Use this pattern to:

• Isolate resources used to consume a set of backend services, if your application can provide some level of functionality even when one of the services is not responding.
• Isolate critical consumers from standard consumers.
• Protect the application from cascading failures.

Typically in cloud-based applications, each service may have one or more consumers. Excessive load or failure in service will impact all consumers of the service. If we limit the max number of threads that can be used for an endpoint, we will always have some resources to process and this will avoid saturation of all endpoints. To implement the bulkhead pattern, we need to make sure that all our services work independently of each other and failure in one will not create a failure in another service. Techniques such as maintaining a single-responsibility pattern, an asynchronous-communication pattern, or fail-fast and failure-handling patterns help us to achieve.