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+## Deployement
+- a blueprint for for a process-specific pod
+- you specify how many replicas of the pod to make
+- this is an *abstraction* on top of pods
+- can scale up or down
+★ if one of the replicated pods dies, the service will simply foreward the request to whatever pod has the lightest load
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+## StatefulSet
+- replaces deployements for *stateful* apps (apps that need static information)  
+★ examples of stateful apps include databases, email, etc
+- ensures database reads/writes are synchronized
+- very complicated, consider hosting outside of the kubernetes cluster