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What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

High Scalability

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. If you are running serverless with AWS Lambda, you’ve also bypassed the need for a platform team to run it, the serverless platform takes care of those concerns.

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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

The sheer volume of data that needs to be processed and transferred can introduce delays, especially if the underlying infrastructure is not optimized. The physical distance between users, data centers, and cloud servers can result in higher network latency, affecting the responsiveness of applications.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

The concept is like text messaging — a feature most mobile phone users understand. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

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What is a message queue? How an observability platform eases message queue monitoring

Dynatrace

The concept is like text messaging — a feature most mobile phone users understand. Without it, sending an email over a long distance would require the immediate availability of every node on the routing network to forward each message. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

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Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

We went from an essentially serverless model in a monolithic service, to deploying and maintaining a new microservice that hosted our app backend endpoints. While this gave client teams a very convenient “serverless” model, over time we ran into multiple operational and devex challenges with this service.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

The specifications are impressive: 5G will provide a peak data rate of up to 20 Gbps (with 100 Mbps of “ user experienced data rate ”) to mobile devices: cell phones, smart cars, and a lot of devices that haven’t been invented yet. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. I don’t, do you?