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How to Engineer Your Technical Debt Response

DZone

The Southwest Airlines fiasco from December 2022 and the FAA Notam database fiasco from January 2023 had one thing in common: their respective root causes were mired in technical debt. At its most basic, technical debt represents some kind of technology mess that someone has to clean up.

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IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A Does that mean the answer is to slow the growth of AI or cloud technologies more broadly? A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.”

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What they don't tell you about migrating a message-based system to the cloud

Particular Software

This gets even more tricky when those integrations are over on-prem-only technologies, like MSMQ, that don’t integrate out-of-the-box with cloud alternatives like Azure Service Bus or Amazon SQS. So we’re going to explore this scenario with a small, fictitious airline, called (and really, what else would we call it) ParticulAir. ?

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. As executive mandates reach technology leadership teams, your organization’s carbon reduction goals will become more tangible. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%.

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Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Scalegrid

Additionally, DBMS is critical in reservation systems, where it stores and manages records like ticket bookings, schedules, seat allocation, and other pertinent transaction data for airlines, hotels, and railways. The disadvantages of using a Database Management System (DBMS) include high cost, complexity, and dependence on technology.

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Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies

ScaleOut Software

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies

ScaleOut Software

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.