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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This means organizations are increasingly using Kubernetes not just for running applications, but also as an operating system.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work? Increased testing complexity.

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Part 1: How Dynatrace and GitHub help you deliver better software faster

Dynatrace

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. Kubernetes deployments can be managed using a combination of both the open-source Azure Kubernetes set context Action and Kubernetes deployment GitHub Action.

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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processors that Microsoft uses for many of their Azure VM series. Azure Lsv2 Details. Table 1: Lsv2 Series Azure VM Specifications.

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. Microsoft announced that cloud-based load testing in Microsoft Visual Studio and cloud-based load testing in Azure DevOps will be retired. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing?

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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP