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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. Then, they can split these services into functional application programming interfaces (APIs), rather than shipping applications as one large, collective unit. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach.

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What is cloud-native architecture? Set yourself up for cloud success

Dynatrace

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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Security of Quantum Computer Architectures

ACM Sigarch

Although, only recently the security attacks on quantum computers have begun to be demonstrated, this brings to the forefront the need to consider security of quantum computer architectures as a first-class design objective. Given their promise, these computers are available, in some cases even freely, for access as cloud-based devices.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 ( The Next Web). Hacker News).

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads. are the top 3 programming languages for Kubernetes application workloads. That trend will likely continue as Kubernetes security awareness further rises and a new class of security solutions becomes available.

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. However, Redis, with its single-threaded architecture, may encounter bottlenecks with large numbers of concurrent connections.

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