Incident Review: Google Cloud Outage
DZone
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Outages on the Internet always catch you by surprise, whether you are the end user or the Head of Site Reliability trying to keep a clear mind while you execute your incident playbook.
Cloud observability delivers on business value
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Cloud observability can bring business value, said Rick McConnell, CEO at Dynatrace. Organizations have clearly experienced growth, agility, and innovation as they move to cloud computing architecture. But without effective cloud observability, they continue to experience challenges in their cloud environments.
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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities
Dynatrace
JUNE 29, 2022
More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. What is hybrid cloud architecture?
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What is cloud-native architecture? Set yourself up for cloud success
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Lifting and shifting applications from the data center to the cloud delivers only marginal benefits. Because cloud computing breaks application functions into many microservices, porting monolithic applications to the cloud unchanged can slow them down. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? Declarative APIs.
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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing
Scalegrid
JANUARY 12, 2024
What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 29th, 2019
High Scalability
MARCH 29, 2019
I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C.
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198 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018
High Scalability
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019
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FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. But there’s no reason that Google and Facebook shouldn’t be accepting deposits, facilitating payments, making loans, managing assets, running quantitative investment funds. It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 15th, 2019
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FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. google's @fchollet, the danger of AI propaganda. It's HighScalability time: Opportunity crossed over the rainbow bridge after 15 years of loyal service. " Our beloved Opportunity remains silent.". Do you like this sort of Stuff?
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018
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OCTOBER 19, 2018
It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The largest structure ever found in the early universe.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 6th, 2018
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JULY 6, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Source: 10+ meetings, with different clients, I attended where the Google sales pitch was basically "we are smarter than you, and you will succumb".
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018
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DECEMBER 7, 2018
Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 2: Alphabet (Google); No.3: Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Then please recommend my well reviewed (31 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) 1: Amazon; No.2:
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 21st, 2018
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DECEMBER 21, 2018
What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019
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MARCH 22, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 Yep, there are more quotes.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018
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AUGUST 3, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Instead, let’s get every possible edge case understood by mingling Google’s training data with that from the other manufacturers.
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113 Public Cloud Postcentralization is the Thin Edge of the Wedge into the Enterprise
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. That's how services built on a cloud work. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018
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JUNE 29, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. It would mean a great deal to me. Don't stop here.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Just a few more quotes.
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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents
O'Reilly
APRIL 23, 2024
Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018
High Scalability
JULY 26, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love you even more. billion : Alphabet revenues; $110bn : Microsoft total revenue; $1.9 They'll love you even more. Quotes are back baby.
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The future of AI: Kelsey Hightower on how AI can raise the bar for humanity
Dynatrace
MARCH 2, 2023
Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology. He noted that a boundary is beneficial between an internet service provider and its customer. “I
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 15th, 2018
High Scalability
JUNE 15, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Domain Specific Architectures are getting 20x and 40x improvements, not just 5-10%.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17th, 2018
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AUGUST 17, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Keep on reading for many more quotes hot off the internet. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018
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AUGUST 31, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Corey Quinn : Kubernetes is Named After the Greek God of Spending Money on Cloud Services. It would mean a great deal to me. More more more.
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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation
Dynatrace
JUNE 26, 2023
Software automation is the practice of creating software applications to reduce or eliminate human intervention in repetitive, time-consuming IT tasks and cloud operations. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks. Cloud automation. Operations.
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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018
High Scalability
JUNE 22, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,
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High Scalability
AUGUST 22, 2018
For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.
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220 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 20th, 2018
High Scalability
JULY 20, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices.
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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Simply put, attackers can remotely take over any internet-connected device that uses certain versions of the Log4j library anywhere in the software stack.
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5 signs you need to choose cross browser testing on the cloud
Testsigma
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Now, let’s discuss the essential facts — as of August 2021, the global browser market share report by StatCounter states that around 64.92% consume content via Google Chrome, followed by Safari at 18.43%. We can observe that Samsung Internet 14.2 When we embrace the cloud, we perform end-to-end testing on the cloud itself.
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Top UI Automation Tools You Should Try
DZone
JUNE 1, 2020
As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. 75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. billion Smartphone users. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.
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159 Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds
The Morning Paper
JUNE 18, 2019
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! The VM is reachable from the Internet? What are we talking about. What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned? The VM is running an OS?
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79 What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?
High Scalability
AUGUST 13, 2018
For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.
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How automation can work along with device providers on cloud as most in-house device labs are closed
Testsigma
MAY 18, 2021
This is also obvious from the fact that Google is now indexing all websites mobile-first. To support the claim, below are some stats that we took from datareportal.com related to mobile phone usage: “Most internet users (92.8 Companies can also integrate their test automation with these cloud device providers in various ways.
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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database
Scalegrid
MAY 13, 2020
Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments.
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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?
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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP
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Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., On the one-hand we have ‘cloud apps’ which make it easy to access our work from multiple devices and to collaborate online with others (e.g. Google Docs, Trello, …). The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data.
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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
Dotcom-Montior
MARCH 27, 2022
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.
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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know
Dynatrace
JULY 31, 2020
These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTelemetry is currently a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project with the ultimate goal of providing a unified set of vendor-agnostic libraries/APIs for collecting and sending data to compatible backends.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. 2% : of sales spent by consumer packaged goods companies on R&D (14% for tech); 272 million : metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe; 100+ fp s: Google's Edge TPU; 6,000 : bugs per million lines of code; 2.2
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How the Great Firewall of China Affects Performance of Websites Outside of China
Dotcom-Montior
JUNE 25, 2020
The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. Deep Packet Inspection.
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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022
Enprowess
JANUARY 12, 2022
Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. The most preferred single-page applications are Gmail, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Smart cities.
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