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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu. But its DPU architecture was difficult to develop for, reportedly, which might’ve affected its momentum.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is best known for his operating systems, central processing units, and programming languages. Turing Award laureate David Patterson retired in 2016. David’s main areas of investigation are as under: Parallel computing Computer architecture Distributed computing Workload Embedded system. Final Words.

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Letting change and uncertainty advance your software architecture

CircleCI

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about architectures that are specifically designed to evolve or more easily adapt to change. I would posit that this type of description creates a false sense of finality that doesn’t actually exist in most real-world systems. Design architecture to solve problems.

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Software Architecture Youtube Channels to Follow

Apiumhub

As Youtube is one of the most preferred channels nowadays, we decided to create a list of our favourite software architecture youtube channels that we believe will inspire you. Software Architecture Youtube Channels to Follow. Mark Richards.

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TestGrid is a “one-stop shop” for testing apps at scale

TechCrunch

Created by developer who needed to test apps at scale, TestGrid is an on-demand platform that lets users run tests on websites and apps across browsers, operating systems. As a result, they needed to optimize their entire software architecture.

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

CIO

In this interview, Nallappan has much to share on dynamic cloud architecture, cloud cost containment, developing a cloud-conscious culture, and why it makes sense to give engineers financial goals when giving them ownership over their cloud estates. Allocation doesn’t work in the cloud. Can you walk through an example of FinOps in action?

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

.” Ouissal co-founded Zededa in 2016 alongside Erik Nordmark, Roman Shaposhnik and Vijay Tapaskar. Nordmark was a distinguished engineer at Cisco, while Shaposhnik — also an engineer by training — spent years developing cloud architectures at Sun Microsystems, Huawei, Yahoo and Cloudera. Image Credits: Zededa.

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