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Are Computer Architects to Blame for the State of Security Today?

ACM Sigarch

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. A History of Architecture Support for Security. The figure above provides a timeline of architectural support for practical defenses, as found in commercial products.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. monitoring distributed systems becomes much more difficult to carry out and manage. What is a Distributed System? Although the definition may seem straightforward, in the real-world, a distributed system is one of the most complex environments to understand, manage, and monitor.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The third is that the Team Topologies book defined how to create and manage Platform Teams so there’s interest in the terminology and definition. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

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5 tips for architecting fast data applications

O'Reilly Software

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Edge caching.

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The Pursuit of Appiness

Alex Russell

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Don't like the consequences?