Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool

Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool.  It complements configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef, as well as infrastructure building tools like CloudFormation.  The beauty of it is that it is tool and cloud agnostic.  You can use it to build and maintain infrastructure across multiple clouds.

Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world

Battle scars: How the first world war changed the world

Geography changed too. After the war the Treaty of Versailles carved out new countries from what remained of the old pre-war empires. Independence was granted to the Baltic states, which had been handed to Germany in 1918 as part of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian involvement in the first world war. Poland was reconstituted from former Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian territories, and Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and a larger Romania were created.

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