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What is DevOps? Unpacking the rise of an IT cultural revolution

Dynatrace

DevOps seeks to accomplish smooth and efficient software creation, delivery, monitoring, and improvement by prioritizing agility and adaptability over rigid, stage-by-stage development. As DevOps pioneer Patrick Debois first described it in 2009, DevOps is not a specific technology, but a tactical approach. Dynatrace news.

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DevOps engineer tools: Deploy, test, evaluate, repeat

Dynatrace

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services. Apache Mesos Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that can run containerized and noncontainerized workloads.

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

I don’t advocate “Serverless Only”, and I recommended that if you need sustained high traffic, low latency and higher efficiency, then you should re-implement your rapid prototype as a continuously running autoscaled container, as part of a larger serverless event driven architecture, which is what they did.

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

We launched AWS Support in 2009 and since the launch the mission has remained constant: to help customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by AWS. In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services. Our customers tell us that the service is 78% better than it was 3 years ago.

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The Alignment Problem Is Not New

O'Reilly

Efficiency, not human flourishing, is maximized. You have only to look at the slow response of bank regulators to the rise of CDOs and other mortgage-backed derivatives in the runup to the 2009 financial crisis to understand that time is of the essence. There is no perfectly efficient algorithm that gets everything right.

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Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web

Smashing Magazine

Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Exploring The Potential Of Web Workers For Multithreading On The Web Sarah Oke Okolo 2023-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 2023-04-21T11:15:35+00:00 Web Workers are a powerful feature of modern web development and were introduced as part of the HTML5 specification in 2009.