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Knowledge of web technologies and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products.
*Indicates a step NOT taken during migration dry runs
Migration is moving code and state from one physical location to another.
Code is the stuff that doesn’t change unless you deploy something new.
State is the data your application creates as it runs. It’s customer accounts, uploaded photos, product descriptions, anything that your developers didn’t put in their version control system (probably Github).
Read-Only means a service can still respond to requests for data, but can’t make changes to its dataset.
Latency is the time it takes for packets to traverse the internet between physical machines.
Time to live (TTL) — All DNS records have this one value in common: TTL, which determines how long the record can remain cached before it expires.
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