In this post, we’ll take a quick look at rsync (“remote sync”) and parallel rysnc—a way to increase the efficiency and speed of traditional rsync—both of which can be effective…
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Holt-Winters Forecasting and Exponential Smoothing Simplified
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Eyes Wide Open: Visibility is Key to Cloud Migration
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Cloud Adoption Myths and How to Deal With Them
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Numeric Optimization in Golang With Nelder-Mead and Gonum
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Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication With the AWS CLI
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Slow Queries? Move Fast to Fix Them
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The Basics of Sharding in MongoDB
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