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60 seconds to self-upgrading observability on Google Kubernetes Engine

Dynatrace

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. Rapid OneAgent rollouts on Google Kubernetes Engine. Dynatrace news. The OneAgent Helm chart is one-of-a-kind.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. 264, a.k.a.

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How To Use MQTT in Golang

DZone

Golang is a statically, strongly typed, compiled, concurrent, and garbage-collecting programming language developed by Google. Go compiles quickly to machine code, but with the convenience of garbage collection and the power of runtime reflection. Go is expressive, clean, and efficient.

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What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

Because container as a service doesn’t rely on a single code language or code stack, it’s platform agnostic. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. The classes of CaaS. CaaS vs. PaaS.

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Kubernetes And Kernel Panics

The Netflix TechBlog

Without a real return code, how can they know if it is safe to retry or not? Inspired by this Google Spanner paper , where Spanner nodes send out a “last gasp” UDP packet to release leases & locks, you too can configure your servers to do the same upon kernel panic using a stock Linux module: netconsole. UDP packet?

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Just as the code is monolithic, so is the logging. Another aspect of microservices is how the service itself relates to the underlying hardware.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

Function as a service is a cloud computing model that runs code in small modular pieces, or microservices. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. In a FaaS model, developers can write code functions on demand, without being hindered by dependencies on existing applications.