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What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

It automatically manages all the computing resources those processes require. 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. When not to use Azure Functions.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. KiPageFault is triggered whenever a process touches memory that is not currently in the working set of the process. That is remarkable.

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Evolving Container Security With Linux User Namespaces

The Netflix TechBlog

For example, the PID namespace makes it so that a process can only see PIDs in its own namespace, and therefore cannot send kill signals to random processes on the host. Unfortunately, these default namespace boundaries are not sufficient to prevent container escape, as seen in CVEs like CVE-2015–2925. User Namespaces.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

In 2015, we expanded our presence in the country, opening an AWS office in Johannesburg. Using AWS, JUMO has been able to process this data more than 1 000 times faster. This program gives access to resources such as AWS credits, a jobs board, and training content to accelerate cloud-related learning.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

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

The Morning Paper

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. Navigating the SSL marketplace was difficult and confusing.

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

Testsigma

2015 saw the trend of scriptless testing and IoT focussed methodologies. QAOps is a term derived by combining the two processes – the DevOps and QA into one. When we fuse QA into the DevOps process the newly integrated process is called QAOps. Robotic process automation (RPA). billion US dollars by 2027.