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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. Now go rewrite all your code… we’ll wait…are you done yet? It’s as if they’re saying, “Have you documented your system?

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Real-Time Digital Twins Can Help Expedite Vaccine Distribution

ScaleOut Software

A software technology called in-memory computing has evolved over the last twenty years to grapple with the challenge of tracking and analyzing fast-changing data. This powerful technology may also be just what we need to help tackle the challenge of vaccine distribution. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability.

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Using Real-Time Digital Twins for Corporate Contact Tracing

ScaleOut Software

The following diagram illustrates an employee’s real-time digital twin and the state data it holds; details about the contact tracing code are explained below: The twin automatically populates its contact list with the other members of the employee’s team, based on the expectation that team members are in daily contact.

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Using Real-Time Digital Twins for Corporate Contact Tracing

ScaleOut Software

The following diagram illustrates an employee’s real-time digital twin and the state data it holds; details about the contact tracing code are explained below: The twin automatically populates its contact list with the other members of the employee’s team, based on the expectation that team members are in daily contact.

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The Power of Integrated Analytics Within an IMDG

ScaleOut Software

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others.