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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. And his team can do this more sustainably, another “benefit that’s important to us,” Kirkland says. “If

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here.

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Modernizing on AWS: Strategies, Benefits, and Partnerships with Xebia

Xebia

This involves updating existing systems to take advantage of modern cloud-native architectures, technologies, and best practices, which always follow the six Pillars of AWS Well Architecture Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. We’re trying to build something sustainable here, and the people who make up Honeycomb are more than just “resources.” no oversharing or prying).

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. We’re trying to build something sustainable here, and the people who make up Honeycomb are more than just “resources.” no oversharing or prying).

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Do you remember, the twenty fires of September?

Honeycomb

The Linux version we were using had a bug causing EXT4 file system corruptions and crashes on our retriever instances (our main column store and query engine). . Terraform deleted one of our Lambda deploy artifacts for no known reason. Additionally, our Kafka cluster grows vertically due to licensing structures. Kafka scale-up.

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How Does Serverless Computing Work with Containers and Micro Services?

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Serverless computing is provided by a cloud service provider like AWS Lambda. or Python), set a few simple configuration parameters, and upload everything (along with required dependencies) to Lambda. Lambda persists the container until the function has done its job, then disappears. Serverless computing is used with containers.