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AoAD2 Chapter: DevOps (introduction)

James Shore

The movement came to be known as DevOps. As with so many things in the Agile ecosystem, the term “DevOps” has been distorted by well-meaning people making incorrect assumptions. DevOps Sources. The term “DevOps” was popularized by Patrick Dubois, who hosted the first DevOpsDays conference in 2009.

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SOA vs microservices: going beyond the monolith

CircleCI

Modern software development increasingly relies on distributed , service-based architectural patterns to achieve scalability, reliability, and rapid build, test, and release cycles. Indeed, its origins trace back to 2004 and share strong similarities with SOA. Its heavy reliance on DevOps sets microservices apart.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

They stunned the computer savvy world by suggesting that a redundant array of inexpensive disks promised “improvements of an order of magnitude in performance, reliability, power consumption, and scalability” over single large expensive disks. (In Berkley is a close neighbor of Stanford, where Google was born.