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NetOps for Application Developers: Understanding the Importance of Network Operations in Modern Development

Kentik

DevOps is blind to the network While DevOps teams may be skilled at building and deploying applications in the cloud, they may have a different level of expertise when it comes to optimizing cloud networking, storage, and security. DevOps and NetOps need to work together Collaboration is often a two-way street.

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Leveraging cloud-native managed services for long-term benefits

Capgemini

But because of the traditional separation between infrastructure and application groups, these teams have operated in a siloed fashion. For example, with Capgemini teams managing its environment, a large furniture retailer leveraged DevOps and cloud native to completely transform the e-commerce experience.

Cloud 52
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Blue-Green Deployments: A Definition and Introductory Guide

LaunchDarkly

This deployment process involves creating two identical instances of a production app behind a load balancer. When your team wants to release new features, you switch the route on your load balancer from the old version of your app to the new version. Here’s a general overview of a blue-green deployment.

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Website Speed Optimization: 5 Ways To Speed Things Up

Praxent

We recommend setting up a mirror of production, implementing devops automations, and preparing to bring in a QA resource when necessary. Set Up Local Caching: Make use of a plugin combines and compresses resources in an automated fashion. Check The Load Balancer. Strategize A Plan. Take Care Of Tech Debt.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly allows developers to deploy new software releases in a controlled fashion. Edith is also the host of a podcast called To Be Continuous , and I recommend checking it out if you’re interested in learning about continuous delivery and DevOps and many other technical subjects. EH: Quality balancing too.

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UK COVID-19 dashboard built using Postgres and Citus for millions of users

The Citus Data

After much testing and comparison of different database options, they concluded that Hyperscale (Citus) was exactly what he needed, and that the Citus extension to Postgres could sustain the workload in a distributed fashion. Brogan Goble – Software and DevOps Engineer, UKHSA. Hence, a future-proof solution.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Load Balancers / Reverse Proxy. There are 200 Engineers(DevOps/OPS/QA/Developers/…), the rest are sales, marketing, support, product management, HR, etc. It's a big team, we have Product managers, UX team, DevOps, scrum teams, architects, engineers performing various roles. How do you handle load balancing?