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Published inMar 2022
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Scott Alan Miller
Scott Alan Miller
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Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.
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In summary, system architecture is complex and requires us to really dig into business needs, how operations works, talk to key roles throughout the organization and elicit input, and take a broad view of technological building blocks to construct solutions that deliver the performance and reliability that our workloads need at the minimum cost.

We looked at fundamental components with virtual machines and containers and should now be able to defend our use of them and choose properly between them, as well as be able to use traditional containers without becoming confused with more recent application containers. And we learned about locality. You should be able to navigate the complicated linguistic minefield that is managers attempting to talk about the placement and ownership of server resources, analyze costs and risks and find the right option for your organization. Colocation, cloud, traditional virtualization, on premises are all options that you understand.

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800568792

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Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.
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