
Scaling Hikari - From Daemon Mode to Real-Time Agent-Server Orchestration
Hikari has just received a significant upgrade, which allows it to manage multiple nodes at scale while having seamless real-time updates; this update was quite a natural feature addition to address the problems Hikari is aimed at solving, which was previously not possible in Daemon Mode. Read More About Daemon Mode But…. Why an Agent-Sever Model for Hikari? While using Daemon Mode and planning to expand your fleet of machines from a few to 10’s of machines or even more, the management of these many configurations would become really difficult really quick. You’d have to choose to use a huge JSON file, which is really hard to handle after some time, or you’d have to fragment the files into multiple smaller ones and manage them separately; this is not really good when you are planning to manage multiple machines and environments at the same time. ...