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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet.

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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

Working from home is another tipping point, enabled by widespread deployment of laptops, home internet with capacity to run video (thanks in part to Netflix and other streaming services), and distributed productivity tools, then kicked over the line by the COVID-19 lockdown.

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I Actually Chatted with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

software” rather than “hardware” in our brains). Most notably, ChatGPT is tuned to be overly-friendly and overly-agreeable (sounding like a customer service agent) so it will simply go along with whatever you assert. would do if I were on a noisy phone connection with someone and didn’t hear them clearly.

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Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

All Things Distributed

We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance. NoSQL and Flexibility: Document Model.