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The Stirring Simplicity of SaaS for Network Visibility

Kentik

and the fact that such approaches do little to reduce the pain of systems administration for software updates and patches. Better/faster support: The SaaS provider looks after the viability and resilience of the system 24x7, applying patches and new features with little or no delay. How can we do better?

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Change Management Is Here To Stay

taos

First Published: June 18, 2014, By Eric Secrist?—?Senior Senior Technical Consultant From a systems administrator perspective, change management can be challenging. You are ready to resolve an issue, patch a system, or otherwise improve the state of a server, but you must first submit a change record for approval.

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Docker image versus container: What are the differences?

CircleCI

Their first commercial version was ready for production in 2014. Docker is similar to virtual machines in the way it creates multiple instances of an operating system. However, Docker lets you create containers that run on the same operating system. The image relies on the host operating system (OS) kernel.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But Stack Overflow shows a broad peak in questions from 2014 to 2017, with a sharp decline afterward; the number of questions in 2023 is barely 50% of the peak, and the 20% decline from the January 2023 report to the July report is only somewhat sharper than the previous drops. We also saw 9.8% growth in content about functional programming.

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Clearly, there must be a mechanism to coordinate the work of such complex distributed systems, and that’s exactly what Kubernetes was designed for by Google back in 2014. It aims at software developers, system administrators, and architects, who work with legacy systems and are new to cloud environments and container orchestration.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Go has clearly established itself, particularly as a language for concurrent programming, and Rust is likely to establish itself for “system programming”: building new operating systems and tooling for cloud operations. Julia, a language designed for mathematical computation, is an interesting wild card.