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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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Scenarios when Data-Driven Testing is useful

Testsigma

In today’s world where ‘data is the new oil’ ( as said by Clive Humby), not giving proper attention to data-driven testing is not justified. If you have an application that needs data input in some form then it will require data-driven testing. The data repository could be a CSV file, excel sheet, DB table, etc.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight. In some ways, eBPF does to the kernel what JavaScript does to websites: it allows all sorts of new applications to be created.

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A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization

Dynatrace

After every experiment run Akamas changes application, runtime, database or cloud configuration based on monitoring data it captured during the previous experiment run. Every time Akamas changes a configuration, e.g. Supported technologies include cloud services, big data, databases, OS, containers, and application runtimes like the JVM.

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Why test data management is more important than you think

Testsigma

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. The test data management for the company had become a big problem and had to be solved.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

This region will provide even lower latency and strong data sovereignty to local users. The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). Public Sector & Not-for-Profit – UCAS , Makewaves , JustGiving.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. This international data mess has been a frequent conversation topic with fellow travelers and no one has a good, simple and reliable solution. Comments ().

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