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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure. Role growth: 20% of businesses have added cloud systems engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

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. As a rule, the network infrastructure engineer augments the IT team that manages a large, enterprise-grade environment. System administration.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microservices seem to be everywhere. Scratch that: talk about microservices seems to be everywhere. So we wanted to determine to what extent, and how, O’Reilly subscribers are empirically using microservices. Here’s a summary of our key findings: Most adopters are successful with microservices. And that’s the problem.

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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.

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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

It originated in the early 2000s at Google to ensure the health of a large, complex system serving over 100 billion requests per day. In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”.

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