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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

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Knative vs. AWS Lambda vs. Microsoft Azure Functions vs. Google Cloud. Reliability will be key to ensuring always-on, always-available performance so we’ll see more engineers and administrators adding reliability to their titles. It does have a lot going for it, though—namely, that it’s open source and portable between cloud providers.

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Serverless: A simple overview

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While AWS Lambda is viewed as the specific technology that kicked off the movement, other vendors offer platforms for reducing operational overhead. AWS Lambda is the canonical example and can be invoked from applications directly or triggered by other AWS services. Different flavors of serverless. Serverless for storage.

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How to Build Web, Mobile and Chat Apps That Connect to Oracle?

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A robust ecosystem has grown up around it, including the well-loved Toad by Quest software, an excellent IDE that helps the database administrator manage processes, data, and stored procedures. Oracle runs on most of the major platforms: Windows, UNIX, Linux and on Mac OS.

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