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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. Maria Gutierrez is a VP of Engineering and an excellent example of Scotland’s commitment to employing women in the STEM sector. LinkedIn. 8 – Maria Gutierrez. LinkedIn. 10 – Liz Keogh.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

It originated in the early 2000s at Google to ensure the health of a large, complex system serving over 100 billion requests per day. In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

taos

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. Previously a system administrator would take days to build out the hardware and software infrastructure, now a cloud provider can offer this within seconds by simply provisioning access to this service.

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