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Sleeping Well at Night During a Live Cloud Migration in a VMware Environment
This article describes the challenges of live migration to the cloud and presents key concepts and requirements that enterprises and their service providers need to understand and adopt if they want to sleep well at night when migrating on-premises VMs and data to the cloud.
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Seven Steps for Improving Cloud Security with Business Integration
For business owners and information technology professionals, cloud computing has represented a significant advancement in terms of efficiency and supportability. But like with any major shift in the IT industry, the cloud brings a host of new security risks. Let’s take a look at the most common risks associated with integrating cloud-based business systems and how to manage them appropriately.
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Book Review: Alexa Skills Projects by Madhur Bhargava
In this book, Barghava introduces developers to Alexa and the Amazon platform that can be used to build skills. The book includes many hands-on examples and allows developers to quickly experience conversational application development. At the end of the book, Barghava provides a glimpse into the future and provides readers with some of his insights on the future of digital assistant capabilities.
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Four Techniques Serverless Platforms Use to Balance Performance and Cost
There are two aspects that have been key to the rapid adoption of serverless computing: the performance and the cost model. This article looks at those aspects, the tradeoffs, and opportunity ahead.
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Virtual Panel: Kubernetes and the Challenges of Multi-Cloud
Kubernetes is eliminating vendor lock-in and enabling cloud portability. In this panel, the panelists talk about what multi-cloud means as more than a common platform on multiple clouds.
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Building a VPC with CloudFormation - Part 2
If you're building separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) templates for each infrastructure use case, you can make existing templates more flexible by using Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs.
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Building a VPC with CloudFormation - Part 1
This article describes how to use AWS CloudFormation to create and manage a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), complete with subnets, NATting, and more. It's a lesson in treating infrastructure as code when building and managing cloud resources.
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Exploring Azure Service Fabric Mesh: A Platform for Building Mission Critical Microservices
Azure has released a preview of Service Fabric Mesh, a platform targeted at microservice developers who do not want the operational responsibility of running an underlying orchestration platform. InfoQ recently sat down with Chacko Daniel, principal technical PM at Microsoft, to explore the details.
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Decoupling in Cloud Era: Building Cloud Native Microservices with Spring Cloud Azure
To implement a microservices architecture there are common patterns to use. Spring Cloud realizes these patterns as building blocks, and Spring Cloud Azure takes it one step further.
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Ethics - What Next?
This year at QCon London and the Coed:Ethics Conference we started to talk about what it means to be an ethical technologist. The running theme of both conferences was taking care. Who should do that? Everyone. From shareholders to individual developers to implementers and users we need to feel personally responsible for the ethics of our products
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The Best CLI Is the One You Don’t Have to Install
We tend to install a lot of CLI’s, and they can be tricky to configure. The Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based CLI with zero commitments or configuration on your part.
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Testing Programmable Infrastructure - a Year On
Programmable infrastructure is becoming widespread. There are very specific domain issues that make testing it tricky. This article looks at the evolution of tooling and approaches used to address it.