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Is Ruby Pass-by-Value Or Pass-by-Reference?
This article will delve into Ruby internals to explain how parameters are passed into functions. As you will see, it is not immediate to say if Ruby passes parameters by value or by reference, but understanding how this works will help you to write better programs.
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AI No Silver Bullet for Cloud Security, But Here’s How It Can Help
In this article, the author looks at the real role of artificial intelligence in cloud security – the hype, the reality, and how we can resolve the gap between them. He encourages the reader to focus on making cloud security platforms that allow humans to provide truly intelligent threat responses, rather than relying on the machines to do it for us.
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Performance Analysis for Arm vs x86 CPUs in the Cloud
In this article, the author uses AWS’s Arm (Graviton2) and x86_64 (Intel) EC2 instances to evaluate computational performance across different software runtimes, including Docker, Node.js, and WebAssembly. Our conclusion is that Arm is more cost effective in the cloud, especially with lightweight runtimes that are close to the underlying operating system.
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Building a Self-Service Cloud Services Brokerage at Scale
While not suitable for everyone, cloud brokerages are useful for large enterprises that want to improve their cloud management and operations. The article looks at planning and delivering a brokerage.
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How to Evolve and Scale Your DevOps Programs and Optimize Success
Processes and workflows become more complex and difficult as DevOps efforts scale. In this article, we’ll take a look at these challenges, and sketch an approach to overcoming them.
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Q&A with Kubernetes SIG Network Chair and Google's Tim Hockin Regarding Kubernetes Networking
InfoQ caught up with chair of Network SIG, principal software engineer at Google, speaker of the upcoming Kubecon + CloudNativeCon 2020 session, and a Kubernetes maintainer even before it was announced, Tim Hockin, about the history of Kubernetes Networking and the roadmap.
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Taking Control of Confusing Cloud Costs
As cloud adoption accelerates, it’s increasingly important that organisations are able to come to grips with confusing cloud pricing and take back control of budgets to optimise spending. This article looks at the source of confusion, and how to get more clarity about costs.
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Running React Applications at the Edge with Cloudflare Workers - Q&A with Josh Larson
Running web applications at the edge shortens the latency observed by users of web applications. Flareact is an edge-rendered React framework built for Cloudflare Workers and inspired by Next.js. Flareact currently supports file-based page routing, dynamic page paths, API routes, cache policy configuration, and edge-side data fetching APIs.
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Why the Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
Are traditional servers dead? Far from it. This article looks at why, despite serverless models finding great utility in specific circumstances, there's a barrier to more widespread adoption.
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The End of the Privacy Shield Agreement Could Lead to Disaster for Hyperscale Cloud Providers
The recent ending of the Privacy Shield agreement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) might impact cloud adoption. This article looks at the demise of this agreement, and possible solutions.
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From Cloud to Cloudlets: a New Approach to Data Processing?
The growing popularity of small, distributed clouds, or “cloudlets” is an implicit recognition of the limitations of the “traditional” cloud model, and could signal a major shift in the way that data is collected, stored, and processed.
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Why Every DevOps Team Needs a FinOps Lead
An outstanding FinOps practice can not only save money but also lead to better customer experience and smarter product design when integrated into the infrastructure and application design process. Read about PerimeterX's FinOps journey in this practical article.