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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

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). Initially, companies utilized Kubernetes mainly for running containerized microservices. But there are other pros worth mentioning.

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

In episode 729 of Software Engineering Daily, Jeff Meyerson talks with our own Edith Harbaugh, CEO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly, about feature flagging. This episode was originally published on December 11, 2018 on the Software Engineering Daily site. Jeff Meyerson (JM): Releasing software has inherent risk.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

Roles of a senior infrastructure engineer and architect also require a number of leadership skills — such as proactivity, organizational capabilities, creativity, and decision-making. Infrastructure engineers have diverse backgrounds — some of them came from software engineering, others honed their skills in administrating databases.

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

The Citus Data

Coronavirus dashboard at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA, formerly Public Health England) is Pouria Hadjibagheri, the Deputy Head of Software Engineering for Data and Web Services. The team decided to migrate to Citus gradually, integrating different microservices at different times.

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