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As powerful and far-reaching as cloud computing efforts are, they bring new challenges and create new opportunities for advancement. The most important among them is the desire to better understand how different cloud-based services are work and how to keep them running consistently.
Achieving this simple-sounding goal turns out to be a lot harder than most people realize, but it’s something that organizations of all types are now constantly striving for. Part of the challenge is that modern, cloud-native applications are typically built with smaller, container-based pieces of software spread across various network connections. This component-based, microservices-driven architecture allows them to do things like dynamically scale up and down with rapidly changing requirements, among many other useful things, but it also adds a great deal of complexity to the systems they work on.
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