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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The article promoted the idea of a new type of system administrator who would write code to automate maintenance, upgrades, and other tasks instead of doing everything manually. In smaller companies, networking falls into the responsibilities of an infrastructure engineer or system administrator. System administration.

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AIOps and our Robot Kubernetes Kops

Linux Academy

The popularity of agile development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery has brought levels of automation that rival anything preciously known. High speed low latency networks now allow us to add these nodes anywhere in a cloud infrastructure and configure them under existing load balancers.

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Kubernetes load balancer to optimize performance and improve app stability The goal of load balancing is to evenly distribute incoming traffic across machines, enabling an app to remain stable and easily handle a large number of client requests. But there are other pros worth mentioning.