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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Use Cases"
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sidebar_current: "use-cases"
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description: |-
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This page lists some concrete use cases for Nomad, but the possible use cases are much broader than what we cover.
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# Use Cases
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Before understanding use cases, it's useful to know [what Nomad is](/intro/index.html).
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This page lists some concrete use cases for Nomad, but the possible use cases are
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much broader than what we cover.
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#### Microservices Platform
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Microservices, or Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), are a design paradigm in which many
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services with narrow scope, tight state encapsulation, and API driven interfaces interact together
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to form a larger application. However, they add an operational challenge of managing hundreds
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or thousands of services instead of a few large applications. Nomad provides a platform for
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managing microservices making it easier to adopt the paradigm.
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#### Hybrid Cloud Deployments
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Nomad is designed to handle multi-datacenter and multi-region deployments and is cloud agnostic.
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This allows Nomad to schedule in private datacenters running bare metal, OpenStack, or VMware
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along side an AWS, Azure, or GCE cloud deployment. This makes it easier to migrate workloads
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incrementally or to utilize the cloud for bursting.
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#### E-Commerce
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A typical E-Commerce website has a few types of workloads. There are long-lived services
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used for web serving. These include the load balancer, web frontends, API servers, and OLTP databases.
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Batch processing using Hadoop or Spark may run periodically for business reporting, user targeting,
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or generating product recommendations. Nomad allows all these workloads to share an underlying cluster,
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increasing utilization, reducing cost, simplifying scaling and providing a clean abstraction
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for developers.
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