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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Applications are packaged into a single, lightweight container with their dependencies, typically including the application’s code, customizations, libraries, and runtime environment. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Hardware resources. Hardware Resources. HTTP Monitoring.

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Off by Two

Nick Desaulniers

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. That doesn’t happen in kernel code; the CPU does that on its own.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. Lower is better. Higher is better.

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Microservices Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle. Success with containers.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).