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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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

All Things Distributed

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. We already have 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions that customers can use today.

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Separating Utility from Value Add

The Agile Manager

But there is some thinking behind the separation of business activity that's worth considering in the IT context. Deposits give banks the capital to make loans to small businesses, write mortgages, and so on. It also provides new businesses with capital at startup, and stabelizing cash through business cycles.

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