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What is serverless computing? Driving efficiency without sacrificing observability

Dynatrace

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. REST APIs, authentication, databases, email, and video processing all have a home on serverless platforms. Creating a prototype (for example, on Azure ).

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. You'll see the types referenced as Family in the Azure Portal when sizing a VM. The various types are: General purpose – Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, small to medium databases. VM Sizing Considerations.

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What is Google Cloud Functions?

Dynatrace

In a time when modern microservices are easier to deploy, GCF, like its counterparts AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , gives development teams an agility boost for delivering value to their customers quickly with low overhead costs. These functions can connect with supported cloud databases, such as Cloud SQL and Bigtable.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Generating machine learning based personalized recommendations to discover new people, photos, videos, and stories relevant one’s interest. We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters.

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Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

The Dynatrace documentation and video tutorials give a good overview of integrating any HTTP-based testing tool with Dynatrace. Here’s how we have implemented and extended those practices: Test context through web request header. The white box load testing project setup.

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Let's talk about Kafka

Particular Software

Apache Kafka is a partitioned log and is a similar product in architecture to Azure Event Hubs or Amazon Kinesis. A message queue or message broker is a highly-optimized database for processing messages. So, let’s dive into the (heavily footnoted) details… ?? What is Kafka? What are message queues?

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Microsoft 365 The Apps and Automation for Enterprise

Tech News Gather

It offers features such as the ability to insert images and videos that can help you make your presentations more engaging. Microsoft Access: Access is a database application that can store and manage data. Microsoft OneNote: OneNote is a digital notebook that can take notes, organize information, and more.

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