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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Auto-Diagnosis and Remediation in Netflix Data Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly. This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps.

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Cloud Testing: How to overcome the challenges of testing on-premise?

Testsigma

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. It’s here to stay and for you to stay ahead of the game with the least operational overheads and be more agile and flexible — the cloud is the way to go. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity. until today.

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Hobson's Browser

Alex Russell

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Standard tools, analytics packages, and feature availability dashboards do not make mention of IABs, and the largest WebView IAB promulgators (Facebook, Pinterest, Snap, etc.) Platforms played these user-and-developer hostile games in mobile's early days to dig a moat of OS-exclusive apps.

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