Interesting article from Edd Dumbill :
… the cost of infrastructure has dropped … other costs remain high … System administrators … demand high wages. Commercial software license fees spiral out of control … power is already troubling large companies …Help is at hand … If they don’t yet make massive resource management trivial, they at least make it possible.
In short, if you want to be ahead of the curve, you want to be ahead of the curve with these technologies:
- Distributed revision control systems
- Virtualization
- Configuration management
… because they let you do more with less. Pleasingly, we’re already making heavy use of the first two and had started scratching our heads about the last one.
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