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Article: How to Fight Climate Change as a Software Engineer

InfoQ Culture Methods

But what role does software play, and what can software engineers do? Let’s take a look under the hood to uncover the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and software, learn about the impact that we can have, and identify concrete ways to reduce emissions when creating and running software.

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Best Kubernetes Tools: The Complete Guide

Dzone - DevOps

Furthermore, it provides a variety of features that are vital in the DevOps process, such as auto-scaling, auto-healing, and load balancing. These capabilities explain why Kubernetes is the go-to solution for most Software Engineers.

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Curbing Connection Churn in Zuul

Netflix Tech

We had discussed subsetting many times over the years, but there was concern about disrupting load balancing with the algorithms available. The quirk in any load balancing algorithm from Google is that they do their load balancing centrally. There is effectively no churn of connections, even at peak traffic.

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A Journey Into SRE

Algolia

Here’s what Google VP Ben Trayner says about SREs: An SRE is what happens when a software engineer is tasked with what used to be called operations. Although I wasn’t technically a software engineer, my career followed this same pattern: writing code to manage operational tasks. 2 – Load Balancer knowledge sharing.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

In episode 729 of Software Engineering Daily, Jeff Meyerson talks with our own Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly, about feature flagging. This episode was originally published on December 11, 2018 on the Software Engineering Daily site. Jeff Meyerson (JM): Releasing software has inherent risk.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2018

Netflix Tech

Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Netflix Devices Susheel Aroskar , Senior Software Engineer Abstract: Netflix built Zuul Push, a massively scalable push messaging service that handles millions of always-on, persistent connections to proactively push time-sensitive data, like personalized movie recommendations, from the AWS Cloud to devices.

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NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development

Kentik

As these applications scale, and engineering for reliability comes into the forefront, DevOps engineers begin to rely on networking concepts like load balancing, auto-scaling, traffic management, and network security.

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