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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The software that powers todayĆ¢??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

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ā€œ256 cores by 2013ā€?

Sutter's Mill

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware ā€œthreads,ā€ not only hardware ā€œcoresā€ ā€“ it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Longer answer follows: Hereā€™s the main part from article, ā€œDesign for Manycore Systemsā€ (August 11, 2009).

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Ten Recommendations for Running Your MongoDB Environment

Percona

First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. It is recommended to upgrade your stack as soon as possible to take advantage of improvements and any security-related software updates. It provides a flexible data model allowing you to easily store unstructured data.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration.

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Capitalizing Tech in a Cloud / SaaS / Continuous Delivery World

The Agile Manager

First, Cloud, SaaS and BYOD change software and infrastructure from capital investments to rent expenses. Second, Continuous Delivery - deploying software hourly or daily instead of monthly or quarterly - blurs the lines among traditional development stages. It never really disappeared, of course, it just wasn't as common.

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