The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the first blog post of this series , we explored how the Dynatrace ® observability and security platform boosts the reliability of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) CI/CD pipelines and enhances their ability to focus on innovation. In this blog post, we’ll focus on the first stage of the pipeline, the Build stage.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Reading and following the right web development blogs makes it much easier to get a solid education. That’s why in this post, we’ve compiled a list of the top web development blogs that will help you find your footing and acquire essential skills in modern web dev. Visit website 3. Visit website 5. Visit website 9.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! We’ll discuss batch data processing, the limitations we faced, and how Psyberg emerged as a solution. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. It also shows how data observability relates to business outcomes as organizations embrace generative AI.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. ” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail. Automated Tools.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Enter AI observability, which uses AI to understand the performance and cost-effectiveness details of various systems in an IT environment. The key to closing the AI confidence gap – blog As today’s AI models become increasingly complex, explainable AI aims to make AI output more transparent and understandable. What is causal AI?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Systems are constantly changing, with pods existing only briefly to perform tasks before they’re terminated. Full visibility into the internal cluster communication between your pods allows you to easily spot unexpected processes in dynamically changing Kubernetes environments, thus ensuring healthier applications. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

To combat these challenges, organizations need an IT culture that addresses security resilience from the outset—also known as security by design —which, in turn, supports business resilience. Instead, they need to enlist software intelligence to monitor their systems end to end to identify and prioritize remediation efforts.

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Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Moreover, the system lacks flexibility, imposing strict schemas that administrators and developers must adhere to avoid additional costs. Grail is designed for scalability, with no technical prerequisites or additional hosting and storage costs as ingestion rates increase. Ingest and process.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

Cloud environment toolkits —microservices, Kubernetes, and serverless platforms — deliver business agility, but also create complexity for which many security solutions weren’t designed. Instead, they need to enlist software intelligence to monitor their systems end to end to identify and prioritize remediation efforts.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

How do we break a large system into smaller, more manageable modular components? In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. 30 minutes) Bounded Context Design Canvas (min.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This blog post will explore some of the major challenges in database management that businesses can expect, especially when transitioning from traditional database servers. A DBaaS automates several processes, such as using, erasing, and spinning up storage without interventions from IT staff. Your data will always be intact.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. The graphic below (Fig.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I also built online serving systems and microservices powering Walmart’s e-commerce. At this conference, I also got to know my current team: Consolidated Logging (CL).

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set. The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. In particular, the Kafka integration is the most relevant for this blog post.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

These can help you ensure your system’s health and quickly perform root cause analysis of any performance-related issue you might be encountering. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

On a recent SIGNAL webinar, guest Paul Puckett, Director of the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA), shared the Army has created 178 integrated online systems in the last 10 years, 46 of which were established since 2020. The ECMA has created “cloud teams” to aid in the application monitoring process. Watch webinar.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. SREs improve the reliability of production systems, and reducing mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) is their top priority. MTTR reduction remains top of the list for SREs.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

While shifting to a multicloud model offers many advantages, the change also introduces more data and systems to track and a complex matrix of systems to manage. This traditional approach to observability lacks the specificity needed to keep pace with cloud-native environments and automate DevOps processes. Deterministic AIOps.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Windows has long had a reputation for slow file operations and slow process creation. This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make process creation on Windows grow slower over time (with no limit), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower?

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

But as IT teams increasingly design and manage cloud-native technologies, the tasks IT pros need to accomplish are equally variable and complex. In multicloud environments, IT teams often struggle to take timely action given a deluge of data and alerts for issues ranging from system performance, security risks, and application problems.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It left the applications, systems, and IT infrastructure of millions of organizations open to widespread exploitation. With Dynatrace Application Security, the Avisi team resolved Log4Shell on all their systems before they went home that night, and no one worked over the weekend. Dynatrace news.

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ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. These tools account for differences among fab locations and fabrication processes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The science has spawned specialized chaos engineers who dedicate themselves to disrupting cloud software and the on-prem systems they interact with to make them resilient. The discoveries form inputs into the software development and delivery process, so new software and microservices will better stand up to unforeseeable events.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Observability and AIOps help drive automated delivery and operations processes. You may also read recent blog posts about Cloud Automation: Dynatrace enables tool-agnostic automation for your application lifecycle. New to Dynatrace? Dynatrace Cloud Automation module provides observability-driven automation across the full lifecycle. _.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2020

If you’ve watched the evolution of OneAgent closely in our release notes and blog posts, you’ll know that we’re highly focused on security. It leverages Linux kernel system capabilities. LocalSystem : This parameter value makes OneAgent leverage the LocalSystem system account.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

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