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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. But wow, I didn’t think we’d be at the point yet where we’d be abandoning TCP/IP!

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above).

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). software and systems architects, technical leads—architects represent almost 28% of the sample. Respondent Demographics. Technical roles dominate, but management roles are represented, too.

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