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SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk. Thomas A. Limoncelli
From Communications of the ACM | January 2019

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GitOps: A Path to More Self-Service IT

IaC + PR = GitOps Thomas A. Limoncelli
From Communications of the ACM | September 2018

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Are You Load Balancing Wrong?

Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult. Thomas A. Limoncelli
From Communications of the ACM | February 2017

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10 Optimizations on Linear Search

The operations side of the story. Thomas A. Limoncelli
From Communications of the ACM | September 2016

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A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts

What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier? Thomas A. Limoncelli
From Communications of the ACM | February 2011