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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. A container is a small, self-contained, fully functional software package that can run an application or service, isolated from other applications running on the same host.

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In the past few years, we have seen an explosion in the use of Deep Learning as its software platforms mature and the supporting hardware, especially GPUs with larger memories, become widely available. Instead, we will be reading an excellent overview paper by Jürgen Schmidhuber of IDSIA from 2014. 2014.09.003).

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

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Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Software as a service (SaaS) delivers on-demand applications.

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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

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The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user. 2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. DevOps aims at developing software and combining IT operations with it.

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What is Kubernetes?

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. It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.