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What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

As early as 2015, the Canadian Broadcasting corporation used Azure App Services, the managed platform for building web apps, to scale its real-time election-night website to handle requests from millions of users. The platform reserves a base number of virtual machines and automatically adds instances as needed during periods of heavy use.

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

Secondly, Let’s Encrypt managed to find a sustainable funding model for a combination of an open source project and free online service, as compared to the more normal pattern which sadly seems to involve running a small number of beneficent maintainers into the ground. Navigating the SSL marketplace was difficult and confusing.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

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Mobile Automation Testing Tools: Appium, Testsigma, TestComplete and more

Testsigma

To make this work efficiently, you would need to have good programming skills and deep knowledge of how Android works. XCUITest is a UI testing framework for iOS apps that was launched by Apple in 2015. It helps the developers and QAs to test the UI of native iOS applications by leveraging Swift or Objective C programming language.

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

Brendan Gregg

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

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Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Enprowess

Both are open-sourced frameworks using JavaScript. ReactJS is an open-source JavaScript library. This functionality gives an edge to Reactjs by increasing performance and decreasing programming time compared to another mobile app development platform. React Native is an open-source JavaScript framework.

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How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

We'll likely open source the new one at some point and have a post about it on the Netflix tech blog. ## Case study: Facebook Facebook are advanced users of BPF, but deep details of how they run the tools fleet-wide aren't fully public. This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud.

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