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Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist

Erik Bernhardsson

Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! Anyway, I feel like this applies to like 90% of software infrastructure products. Truly serverless.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

Internally, we’ve consolidated a lot of our infrastructure and driven it to the cloud in places where we can actually get more green energy, renewable energy,” says Koushik. Hyperscalers provide tools that allow customers to calculate their impact, and they’ve made some aggressive net zero commitments, Koushik says.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

You didn't have to set up any infrastructure yourself, or write custom mapreduce and reload the jobtracker all day. That nets AWS about 6 $500-700k in gross profits, after paying for EC2 operational cost and depreciation. in bin packing, I'd go looking for a job at some serverless infrastructure provider right now.

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Building Resilient Public Networking on AWS: Part 2

Xebia

Region Evacuation with DNS approach: At this point, we will deploy the previous web server infrastructure in several regions, and then we will start reviewing the DNS-based approach to regional evacuation, leveraging the power of AWS Route 53. We’ll study the advantages and limitations associated with this technique.

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Best Practices: Secure Frontend Code by Moving to Serverless Cloud

Progress

We look at a modern approach to securely moving frontend code to the cloud using a serverless approach, walking step-by-step through two examples. In this article we’ll look at a modern approach to moving frontend code to the cloud using a serverless approach. Scenario 1: Hiding a Third-Party API Key Using Serverless Cloud.

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Deploy a.NET Application to Azure Function App using FlexDeploy

Flexagon

Azure Function App is a serverless solution that allows you to execute small, event-driven, pieces of code without worrying about infrastructure. You can write less code and maintain less infrastructure, and instead focus on the code that matters to you, in the language that works best for you. Remote Build for Azure functions.

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Prisma Cloud Delivers 276% ROI: 2021 Forrester TEI Study

Palo Alto Networks

Overall, this led to 276% ROI over three years with $5.81M in net present value (NPV). By supporting the world’s five largest clouds (Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Prisma Cloud delivers coverage for all the leading cloud environments that enterprises are using.

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