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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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. traditional software) to a Software 2.0 In Software 1.0

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Dynatrace is proud to be an AWS launch partner in support of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). How does Dynatrace help?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Observability tools can provide insights into resource utilization metrics, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and network throughput. This includes spot instances such as unused cloud capacity that’s available at a discounted price.

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Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 232

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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Mobile Design Internet Internet 103

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This update improves the ability to observe Citrix users and delivery agents within a Citrix environment using the Citrix SDK, which is designed specifically for Citrix admins. Dynatrace collects metrics and topology information from load balancers and analyzes these critical network devices for performance and health.

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Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 220

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? How does late-arriving data impact us?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Version control system and source code management with end-to-end DevOps platform and cloud-hosted Git services.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

DevOps tools , security response systems , search technologies, and more have all benefited from AI technology’s progress. In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns. A baseline functionality for interpreting an AI model is necessary.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

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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

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

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

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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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Last time out we looked at the real-world deployment of 5G networks and noted the affinity between 5G and edge computing. Nanosatellite systems have a GSD of around 3.0m/px. Satellites are changing!

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Program staff depend on the reliable functioning of critical program systems and infrastructure to provide the best service delivery to the communities and citizens HHS serves, from newborn infants to persons requiring health services to our oldest citizens. Both can result in lost productivity for IT teams and staff in the field.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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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.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Monitoring Education 140

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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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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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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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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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It left the applications, systems, and IT infrastructure of millions of organizations open to widespread exploitation. In the ensuing hours and days, Log4Shell became a showstopper for many organizations, requiring them to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to networks and sensitive data.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses. In this case, you can be sure that Main really failed, and it is not a network split situation. In this blog post, we saw how Kubernetes and Operators can simplify your DR design.

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Storage Cloud Network Traffic 118

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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. Additionally, the current version has some algorithmic limitations that we are in the process of improving before the official release.

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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

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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Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

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Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274