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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

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The software layer can consist of operating systems, virtual machines, web servers, and enterprise applications. The infrastructure engineer supervises all three layers making sure that the entire system. In smaller companies, networking falls into the responsibilities of an infrastructure engineer or system administrator.

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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.