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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Software Defined Networking (SDN) : decouples and isolates virtual networks from the underlying network hardware and provides higher utilization of the hardware, more flexibility, and easier management Examples : Nicira , OpenStack Neutron. 3: PaaS Users : Professional Developers. 2: Foundational PaaS Users : DevOps.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

t be a surprise that storage can be virtualized too, and that it is referred to as Software Defined Storage (SDS). This means that more advanced features like caching, snapshotting, high availability, etc. are managed in the software layer (and thus independent from the specific hardware brand).

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. Alcides Fonseca.

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