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20 influential women in software development

Apiumhub

She is responsible for R&D (both product management & engineering) for GemFire and associated Pivotal Cloud Cache product. She has over 18 years of experience in software industry as an author, speaker, mentor, consultant, technology leader and developer. She is the author of the book “ Explore It!: LinkedIn.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

It originated in the early 2000s at Google to ensure the health of a large, complex system serving over 100 billion requests per day. In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

taos

Public cloud is not cheaper! Public cloud is not something that should be considered for purely cost savings. Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. One reason you may make a move to the public cloud is to save costs. There, I said it!

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