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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

We create custom applications in Salesforce that are built on top of customer or transactional data from Salesforce data tables. Writing efficient queries is crucial to maintaining the performance of these applications and ensuring that we don't run into Salesforce limits. There are certain optimization techniques you need to follow to make your query efficient.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Optimizing complex MySQL queries is crucial when dealing with large datasets, such as fetching data from a database containing one million records or more. Poorly optimized queries can lead to slow response times and increased load on the database server, negatively impacting user experience and system performance. This article explores strategies to optimize complex MySQL queries for efficient data retrieval from large datasets, ensuring quick and reliable access to information.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Observability is the ability to measure the state of a service or software system with the help of tools such as logs, metrics, and traces. It is a crucial aspect of distributed systems, as it allows stakeholders such as Software Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers , and Product Managers to troubleshoot issues with their service, monitor performance, and gain insights into the software system's behavior.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

IoT has ushered in an era of unprecedented connectivity and data collection. IoT edge devices, ranging from sensors to industrial machines, have become integral to various industries, offering insights, automation, and efficiency. However, managing a large number of these edge devices efficiently poses a significant challenge. In this article, we will explore the strategies and tools for managing IoT edge devices at scale , focusing on device lifecycle and configuration management.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the paradigm of zero trust architecture , Privileged Access Management (PAM) is emerging as a key component in a cybersecurity strategy, designed to control and monitor privileged access within an organization. This article delves into the pivotal role of PAM in modern cybersecurity, exploring its principles, implementation strategies, and the evolving landscape of privileged access.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Are you looking at your organization's efforts to enter or expand into the cloud-native landscape and feeling a bit daunted by the vast expanse of information surrounding cloud-native observability? When you're moving so fast with Agile practices across your DevOps, SREs, and platform engineering teams, it's no wonder this can seem a bit confusing. Unfortunately, the choices being made have a great impact on both your business, your budgets, and the ultimate success of your cloud-native initiati

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you are a site reliability engineer (SRE) for a large Kubernetes-powered application, optimizing resources and performance is a daunting job. Some spikes, like a busy shopping day, are things you can broadly schedule, but, if done right, would require painstakingly understanding the behavior of hundreds of microservices and their interdependence that has to be re-evaluated with each new release — not a very scalable approach, let alone the monotony and resulting stress to the SRE.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

When you are preparing your application for release, an efficient initial strategy is to integrate a single payment service. But as your application's market reach grows, so does the necessity for flexible and diverse payment options. Having a diverse payment system is crucial to avoid vendor lock-in, to leverage local payment methods, and to maintain control over costs.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

SIEM stands for Security Information and Event Management. SIEM platforms offer centralized management of security operations, making it easier for organizations to monitor, manage, and secure their IT infrastructure. SIEM platforms streamline incident response processes, allowing security teams to respond quickly and effectively to security incidents.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The reality of the startup is that engineering teams are often at a crossroads when it comes to choosing the foundational architecture for their software applications. This decision, seemingly technical at its core, extends far beyond the area of coding, straight into the strategic planning that can make or break the early stages of a startup. At the heart of this decision lies a crucial question: should these teams lay the groundwork with a microservice architecture, known for its distributed a

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless. These transitions have simplified aspects of software engineering, including deployment and operation, allowing users to focus less on the underlying systems and more on the application itself.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The emergence of bias in artificial intelligence (AI) presents a significant challenge in the realm of algorithmic decision-making. AI models often mirror the data on which they are trained. It can unintentionally include existing societal biases, leading to unfair outcomes. To overcome this issue, continuous monitoring and validation emerge as critical processes which are essential for ensuring that AI models function ethically and impartially over time.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

In the context of inventory management, integrating AI analytics involves leveraging advanced algorithms and models to gain insights, make predictions, or automate decision-making. Let's enhance the example with an illustrative AI analytics scenario. Enhanced Step 1: Setup Ensure that your Databricks environment is configured to support machine learning libraries and tools.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of container orchestration, Kubernetes has emerged as a frontrunner, offering unparalleled flexibility and scalability. However, with great power comes great responsibility — the responsibility to monitor and understand your Kubernetes clusters effectively. This is where Prometheus and Grafana step in, forming a dynamic duo that provides comprehensive insights into Kubernetes clusters.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Automating AWS Load Balancers is essential for managing cloud infrastructure efficiently. This article delves into the importance of automation using the AWS Load Balancer controller and Ingress template. Whether you're new or experienced, grasping these configurations is vital to streamlining Load Balancer settings on Amazon Web Services, ensuring a smoother and more effective setup.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

The convergence of software and networking technologies has cleared the way for ground-breaking advancements in the field of modern networking. One such breakthrough is Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a game-changing method of network administration that adds flexibility, efficiency, and scalability. Virtualization, a critical notion that reshapes traditional network designs, is at the heart of SDN.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure. You write your code, and the cloud provider handles the rest - provisioning, scaling, and maintenance. AWS offers various serverless services, with AWS Lambda being one of the most prominent. When we talk about " serverless ," it doesn't mean servers are absent.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Docker Swarm is a powerful orchestration tool that allows you to manage and deploy containers in a cluster environment. It provides features for load balancing, scaling, and ensuring high availability of your containerized applications. In this comprehensive tutorial, we will walk you through the process of setting up a Docker Swarm cluster and deploying Docker containers within it.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Many of today’s hottest jobs didn’t exist at the turn of the millennium. Social media managers, data scientists, and growth hackers were unheard of at the time. Another relatively new job role in demand is that of a Site Reliability Engineer or SRE. The profession is quite new. It’s noted that 64% of SRE teams are less than three years old. But despite being new, the job role adds a lot of value to an organization.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

In the data-driven landscape of today, automation has become indispensable across industries, not just to maximize efficiency but, more importantly, to ensure quality. This holds true for the critical field of data engineering as well. As organizations gather and process astronomical volumes of data, manual testing is no longer feasible or reliable.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Through the use of virtualization technology, multiple operating systems can now run on a single physical machine, revolutionizing the way we use computer hardware. The Raspberry Pi is one example of a small, low-cost device that is embracing this idea, even though it has traditionally been associated with powerful servers and expensive computers. The exciting world of using a Raspberry Pi for virtualization will be explored in this article, along with the new opportunities it creates for busine

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Cloud migration is primarily motivated by scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. It allows businesses to create, deliver, and manage software applications while significantly transforming infrastructure, security, and enterprise services. Gartner predicts that companies will invest a remarkable $679 billion in cloud services by 2024. Additionally, the cloud is expected to become an indispensable aspect of business operations by 2028.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Now that we have understood the importance of cost models and how to create and refine cost models, it's time to start to optimize our workload components. Any workload deployment and architecture contains the key components that are depicted in the architecture diagram given below. All the layers of the architecture provide opportunities for cost optimization.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Apache Airflow is an open-source platform that allows you to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. It uses Python as its programming language and offers a flexible architecture suited for both small-scale and large-scale data processing. The platform supports the concept of Directed Acyclic Graphs to define workflows, making it easy to visualize complex data pipelines.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Docker Extensions was announced as a beta at DockerCon 2022. Docker Extensions became generally available in January 2023. Developing performance tools' related extensions was on my to-do list for a long time. Due to my master's degree, I couldn't spend time learning Docker Extensions SDK. I expected someone would have created the extension by now, considering it's almost 2024.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Hey there, I'm Roman, a Cloud Architect at Gart with over 15 years of experience. Today, I want to delve into the world of Load Balancers with you. In simple terms, a Load Balancer is like the traffic cop of the internet. Its main gig? Distributing incoming web traffic among multiple servers. But let's not try to swallow this elephant in one go; we'll munch on it one piece at a time, step by step.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Observability is essential in any modern software development and production environment. It allows teams to better identify areas of improvement, enabling them to make informed decisions about their development processes. Telemetry, being a critical part of observability, refers to the continuous nature of data collection.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This article provides a structured approach to create and update a regression test suite. What kinds of tests should be in a regression test suite? Which regression tests should be run, how do you respond to regression tests that fail, and how does a regression test suite evolve? These questions and other considerations are explored in a step-by-step manner.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Given the interdependence of microservices or modules in a distributed setup, the failure of one component can lead to cascading failures throughout the system, potentially causing the entire system to malfunction or shut down.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Horizons of creativity are now open to define new approaches for the implementation and understanding of DevOps methods and technologies. Moreover, organizations and IT teams expect an investment boost in methods, architecture, and tools. This improvement can help the evolution from IT tools into digital products, which have become a vector of growth for organizations.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

The exponential growth of data presents both immense opportunities and challenges for organizations. Valuable insights are often buried across massive, complex datasets too large and unwieldy for traditional analytics tools to handle. SQream offers a purpose-built solution to help companies fully harness all their data to drive unprecedented speed and scale in analytics.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most financial firms, online transaction processing (OLTP) often relies on static or infrequently updated data, also called reference data. Reference data sources don’t always require ACID transaction capabilities, rather need support for fast read queries often based on simple data access patterns, and event-driven architecture to ensure the target systems remain up-to-date.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Web services have taken on a crucial role in the foundation of many applications and systems in the modern digital environment. Web services are necessary for seamless data exchange and effective communication between various software components, whether it be an e-commerce platform, a banking application, or a social media network. Thorough testing is essential to guaranteeing the dependability, security, and performance of these web services.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The ability to measure the internal states of a system by examining its outputs is called Observability. A system becomes 'observable' when it is possible to estimate the current state using only information from outputs, namely sensor data. You can use the data from Observability to identify and troubleshoot problems, optimize performance, and improve security.

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DZone

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Your team celebrates a success story where a trace identified a pesky latency issue in your application's authentication service. A fix was swiftly implemented, and we all celebrated a quick win in the next team meeting. But the celebrations are short-lived. Just days later, user complaints surged about a related payment gateway timeout. It turns out that the fix we made did improve performance at one point but created a situation in which key information was never cached.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers. Because of this sharding, a read or write request to an Elasticsearch cluster requires coordinating between multiple nodes as there is no “global view”

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The World Has Changed, and We Need To Adapt The world has gone through a tremendous transformation in the last fifteen years. Cloud and microservices changed the world. Previously, our application was using one database; developers knew how it worked, and the deployment rarely happened. A single database administrator was capable of maintaining the database, optimizing the queries, and making sure things worked as expected.

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