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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

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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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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

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Containers have become the preferred way to run microservices — independent, portable software components, each responsible for a specific business task (say, adding new items to a shopping cart). Modern apps include dozens to hundreds of individual modules running across multiple machines— for example, eBay uses nearly 1,000 microservices.