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Indestructible Storage in the Cloud with Apache Bookkeeper
At Salesforce, we required a storage system that could work with two kinds of streams, one stream for write-ahead logs and one for data. But we have competing requirements from both of the streams. Being the pioneers in cloud computing, we also required our storage system to be cloud-aware as the requirements of availability and durability are ever more increasing.
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A Reference Architecture for Fine-Grained Access Management on the Cloud
In this article, we will define a new reference architecture for cloud-native companies that are looking for a simplified access management solution for their cloud resources, from SSH hosts, databases, data warehouses, to message pipelines and cloud storage endpoints.
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Nine Trends That Are Influencing the Adoption of Devops and Devsecops in 2021
While it’s important to recognize the value of both DevOps and DevSecOps, they are not one-size-fits-all, monolithic, permanent paradigms. In this article, we’ll take a look at that ongoing development – isolating and explaining nine key trends that are driving and changing the adoption of DevOps, DevSecOps, and a number of related approaches to development and management.
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Why AWS Lambda Pricing Has to Change for the Enterprise
AWS Lambda users pay only when their code is run. This can result in massive cost savings over long-running workloads. The advantages start to disappear quickly when AWS Lambda is employed for batch processing. Enterprises can gain significantly from the scalability of FaaS - yet a price comparison between EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, the AWS-managed container service, reveals an ugly truth.
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DevOps is Not Enough for Scaling and Evolving Tech-Driven Organizations: a Q&A with Eduardo da Silva
Eduardo Silva from bol.com on the need for sociotechnical systems thinking. DevOps is a good starting point but a wider view of the organization as a sociotechnical system is key for sustained growth.
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Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service
Nicki Watt shares how successful platform engineering initiatives start by adjusting their thinking to centre around people and communities, and their experience consuming the platform, with examples.
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The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes
At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat, gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be.
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Kubernetes Is Not Your Platform, It's Just the Foundation
Manuel Pais discusses how many organizations see Kubernetes as "the" platform, rather than just a technical foundation for a true internal platform. Successful Kubernetes adoption requires thinking about the platform as a product and establishing product-like team structures and interactions to reduce cognitive load on development and other stream teams. Metrics can help guide the journey.
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Cloud-Native Is about Culture, Not Containers
At QCon London last year, Holly Cummins, innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy, provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Cummins will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture. Furthermore, she will dive into various topics around cloud-native ranging from its definition to CI/CD and operations.
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The Perfect Pair: Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance
Businesses are moving towards developing a predictive maintenance model using digital twins that mirror their real-life counterparts. In this article, the author looks at digital twins, and provides an example of how to build one.
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Network Edge 5G Computing Technologies Predicted to Make Dramatic Changes to Business Operations
Implementing network edge 5G technologies can offer many advantages, but also presents challenges for your team. In this article, we’ll take a look at promise and risk of network edge 5G models.
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Experts Discuss Top Kubernetes Trends and Production Challenges
Kubernetes growth has led to cultural, technological and operational challenges. InfoQ caught up with Kubernetes experts and implementers who talk about 2-3 top trends and challenges that are facing the platform.