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| Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced Amazon DevOps Guru, one of several new machine learning-driven services. DevOps Guru detects operational issues, generates reports and notifications, and offers insights and recommendations on how to take action. (News) |
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 Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions. (Article) |
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