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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Throughout, we adopt the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scope definition as used in Prof. Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. Renewable energy sources and supporting infrastructures need to be designed, permitted and built. Chien’s post. Chien’s argument: It costs only $1.4B

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The third is that the Team Topologies book defined how to create and manage Platform Teams so there’s interest in the terminology and definition. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use.

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Cross-browser testing on the cloud: advantages and disadvantages

Testsigma

A cloud-based solution saves infrastructure set up and maintenance cost. Even if the IT infrastructure management team decides to take up this herculean task – the effort, time, and money associated are mountainous. Infrastructure. During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware.

Cloud 96
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A Spectrum of Actions, Part II

J. Paul Reed

Or for gaming the definition of “done,” agile -style.) They knew —from other incidents — there were all sorts of gremlins running around that infrastructure. Second, let’s tweak the X-axis so that instead of “cost,” it models “the likelihood the action item will be completed.” Sure, Jan … we could do that. But we won’t do that either.

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AI for everyone - How companies can benefit from the advance of machine learning

All Things Distributed

The management consultants at McKinsey expect that the global market for AI-based services, software and hardware will grow annually by 15-25% and reach a volume of around USD 130 billion in 2025. Definitely, because they offer business and society fascinating possibilities. Progress through machine learning. More room for optimism.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

ITSM is one of the practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. It is much more than just IT support.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Anyone who wants to further develop his business digitally can't do that today without at the same time thinking about which IT infrastructure, which software and which algorithms he needs in order to achieve his plans. We need mechanisms that enable the mass production of data using software and hardware capabilities.