DZone

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline in which automated software systems are built to manage the development operations (DevOps) of a product or service. In other words, SRE automates the functions of an operations team via software systems. The main purpose of SRE is to encourage the deployment and proper maintenance of large-scale systems.

DevOps 289

DevOps Engineering Software Software 289

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday.

Retail 223

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 223

DZone

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.

Processing 161

Processing Open Source Programming Architecture 161

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture.

Performance 110

Performance C++ Architecture Systems 110

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tim O’Reilly forwarded an excellent article about the OpenAI soap opera to me: Matt Levine’s “ Money Stuff: Who Controls Open AI.” I’ll skip most of it, but something caught my eye. Towards the end, Levine writes about Elon Musk’s version of Nick Bostrom’s AI that decides to turn the world to paper-clips : [Elon] Musk gave an example of an artificial intelligence that’s given the task of picking strawberries.

Artificial Intelligence 97

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology 97

Percona

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Encryption is the process of turning data into an unrecognizable format unless the necessary password (also known as passphrase) or decryption key is provided. This blog describes how to encrypt the pgBackRest repository. pgBackRest is the backup tool used to perform Postgres database backup, restoration, and point-in-time recovery (PITR). The repository is where pgBackRest stores backups and archives WAL segments. pgBackRest will encrypt the repository based on a user-provided password, thereby

Open Source 81

Open Source Database Processing Performance 81

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

From HammerDB v4.9 it is possible to deploy HammerDB through a web browser, giving you access to a fully functional HammerDB GUI in Cloud environments. The quickest way to run HammerDB with CloudTk is through Docker and in this post will we demonstrate how to pull the HammerDB CloudTK Docker image and run it to start running HammerDB through your chosen browser.

Metrics 62

Metrics Code Database Cloud 62