Infrastructure

DevOps

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How to Organise Your Infrastructure as Code

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Abhishek Tiwari on December 22nd, 2015

DevOps is a cultural shift with immediate focus on maximising the business value by opting better communication, collaboration and feedback within and across IT development and operation teams. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a key element of DevOps philosophy with benefits for both development and...

High-availability

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Reflections on Visa's High-Availability Payment Network

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Abhishek Tiwari on January 19th, 2013

Way before Google-scale or Facebook-scale existed, there was Visa-scale. This COMPUTERWORLD article from 2001 provides some insights about early Visa payment processing infrastructure. Indeed, everything in Visa's processing infrastructure - from entire data centers to computers, individual processors and communications switches - has...