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Friction

LeanEssays

By comparison, an electric car loses half as much energy - one sixth - to friction. Amazon built its cloud with the same philosophy – they knew that at the scale they intended to pursue, everything would fail sooner rather than later, so automated failure detection and recovery had to be designed into the system.

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

When doing year-over-year comparisons, we used the first nine months of 2020. So while we can discuss whether Answers usage is in line with other services, it’s difficult to talk about trends with so little data, and it’s impossible to do a year-over-year comparison. But that isn’t a good metric.

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

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We’re just saying that when you make comparisons, you have to be careful about exactly what you’re comparing. Terraform , HashiCorp’s open source tool for automating the configuration of cloud infrastructure, also shows strong (53%) growth. The horse race? That’s just what it is. Operations, DevOps, and SRE.