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Moving to the Cloud: Exploring the API Gateway to Success

Daniel Bryant

Architects need to understand the changes imposed by the underlying hardware and learn new infrastructure management patterns. DORA metrics are used by DevOps teams to measure their performance and find out whether they are “low performers” to “elite performers.” This is true regardless of the role in which you work.

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Understanding the Future of the Data Center Edge

Dzone - DevOps

With the adoption of Kubernetes and microservices, the edge has evolved from simple hardware load balancers to a full stack of hardware and software proxies that comprise API Gateways, content delivery networks, and load balancers. The Early Internet and Load Balancers.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The hardware layer includes everything you can touch — servers, data centers, storage devices, and personal computers. The networking layer is a combination of hardware and software elements and services like protocols and IP addressing that enable communications between computing devices. Key components of IT infrastructure.

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Scaling my application: am I ready?

CircleCI

First, we can scale the application’s ability to handle requests by providing more powerful hardware. If you start with a monolithic app, then scaling the hardware may be your first choice. However, this just makes a single instance of your application faster as long as you can find more powerful hardware. Automate first.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

What’s more, this software may run either partly or completely on top of different hardware – from a developer’s computer to a production cloud provider. Thus, the guest operating system can be installed on this virtual hardware, and from there, applications can be installed and run in the same way as in the host operating system.

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Envoy and the “Programmable Edge”: The Changing Role of Edge Proxies and Developer Experience

Daniel Bryant

Moving away from hardware-based load balancers and other edge appliances towards the software-based “programmable edge” provided by Envoy clearly has many benefits, particularly in regard to dynamism and automation. we didn’t need much control in the way of releasing our application?

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

The Citus Data

Synchronous services wait for the system to respond before issuing the next request, which means they are not always able to fully utilize the hardware when there are additional requests. The team decided to migrate to Citus gradually, integrating different microservices at different times.

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