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The practice of science involves trying to find things out about the world by using rigid logic and testing every assumption. Researchers then write up any important findings in papers and submit them for possible publication. After a peer-review process, in which other scientists check that the research is sound, journals publish papers for public consumption.  You might therefore reasonably believe that published papers are quite reliable and meet high-quality standards. You might expect sma...

Skip to main content How a Brilliant Platform Engineer Saved Twilio From ‘Absolute Disaster’ Our infrastructure was slow and prone to failure. Half our engineers quit. That’s when I called in a former Marine to turn our systems around. Jeff Lawson Expert Contributor Co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Twilio, one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies; author of Expert Contributor Co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Twilio, one of the world’s fastest gro...

Have you ever wanted to learn how tools like Terraform and Ansible complement each other? Perhaps you’d like to see an example of how to automate the Microsoft Azure infrastructure to prepare a complete web app deployment. Or maybe, you just need to know how to deploy a web application using Visual Studio to an Azure virtual machine (VM). If any of the above topics interest you, you’re in luck. In this project, you’re going to learn how to build (from the ground up) a complete Azure infra...