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What is Cloud Computing? According to ChatGPT.

High Scalability

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. This means that users only pay for the computing resources they actually use, rather than having to invest in expensive hardware and software upfront. Which cloud provider would you recommend?

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

Ross Mcilroy : we now believe that speculative vulnerabilities on today's hardware defeat all language-enforced confidentiality with no known comprehensive software mitigations, as we have discovered that untrusted code can construct a universal read gadget to read all memory in the same address space through side-channels.

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.).

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

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chrismunns : "hey Ops, we're launching next week, can we make sure we can handle 1000 #serverless function invocations?" Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. Moore's Law was sustained for five decades. Quotes are back baby.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

What it means to be cloud-native has gone through several evolutions: VM to container to serverless. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. So why bother innovating?

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. Further Reading.

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Devops and the need for cloud based solutions

Testsigma

Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. SaaS does not need you to manage hardware or other requirements such as OS and middleware. This is also called serverless computing in general.

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