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Case Study: Pokémon GO on Google Cloud Load Balancing

High Scalability

There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. Niantic launched Pokémon GO in the summer of 2016. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates. In addition, many engineers across Google provided their assis?

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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Container orchestration is a process that automates the deployment and management of containerized applications and services at scale. Container orchestration enables organizations to manage and automate the many processes and services that comprise workflows.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.

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What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

This information is gathered from remote, often inaccessible points within your ecosystem and processed by some sort of tool or equipment. Traces are the act of following a process (for example, an API request or other system activity) from start to finish, showing how services connect. In-process exporter.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTracing became a CNCF project back in 2016, with a goal of providing a vendor-agnostic specification for distributed tracing, offering developers the ability to trace a request from start to finish by instrumenting their code.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0