Responsive post grid with a grow effect

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                  <div class="grid-image-top rex-ray">
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                    <span class="item-title">REX-Ray</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Infrastructure as Code</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">REX-Ray is a container storage orchestration engine enabling persistence fo...</span>
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                  <div class="grid-image-top sputnik">
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                    <span class="item-title">Sputnik</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Developer System</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">A developer focused laptop with a pre-installed and fully support Ubuntu im...</span>
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              <a class="wrapping-link" href="https://www.edgexfoundry.org/" target="_blank"></a>
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                  <div class="grid-image-top edgex">
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                    <span class="item-title">EdgeX Foundry</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Internet of Things</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">A vendor-neutral open source project building a common open framework for I...</span>
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                    <span class="item-title">OpenSwitch</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Software Based Infrastructure</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">The OpenSwitch platform is an open source, Linux-based network operating sy...</span>
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                  <div class="grid-image-top scaleio">
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                    <span class="item-title">K8s + ScaleIO</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Infrastructure as Code</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">Configure Kubernetes resources to consume storage from volumes hosted on Sc...</span>
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                  <div class="grid-image-top csi">
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                    <span class="item-title">Container Storage Interface</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Software Based Infrastructure</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">A universal storage interface  allowing easy interoperability between conta...</span>
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                    <span class="item-title">Kubernetes</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Software Based Infrastructure</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of...</span>
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                    <span class="item-title">GRPC</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Tools and Libraries</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">A high performance, open source, general-purpose RPC framework.</span>
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                    <span class="item-title">Envoy</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Software Based Infrastructure</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">An open source edge and service proxy, from the developers at Lyft.</span>
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                    <span class="item-title">Istio</span>
                    <span class="item-category">Software Based Infrastructure</span>
                    <span class="item-excerpt">Connect, secure, control, and observe services.</span>
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Responsive post grid with a grow effect

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style.css

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styles

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