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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018). The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation.

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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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ScaleGrid DBaaS Expands MySQL Hosting Services Through AWS Cloud

Scalegrid

While all other DBaaS platforms require you to host through their service, ScaleGrid encourages users to host in the safety of their own accounts so they can leverage advanced security features like AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) to protect their data from the internet, and Security Groups to lock down access to their servers.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

High Scalability

” Incredibly, this growth is largely the result of eXp Realty’s use of an online virtual world similar to Second Life. That means every employee, contractor, and the thousands of agents who work at the company show up to work—team meetings, training seminars, onboarding sessions—all inside a virtual reality campus.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. The virtual CPU is turned off. When using a platform, it always helps to have a rough idea of its inner workings.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.