All Things Distributed
APRIL 14, 2020
On March 16, 2020, at 9:26 PM, I received an urgent email from my friend DJ Patil, former White House Chief Data Scientist, Head of Technology for Devoted Health, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Advisor to Venrock Partners. You don’t get that many titles after your name unless you’re pretty good at something. For DJ, that “something” is math and computer science.
DZone
APRIL 14, 2020
If you’re a developer, you probably don’t appreciate the power of testers. In fact, you probably think negatively about some aspect of your testing team. They think of bugs that you haven’t considered. They try doing things you never designed your product to handle. And, they file bugs when they encounter unexpected behavior. What a pain! If you’re a tester, you may not get respect from your development teammates, but you don’t quite know why.
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High Scalability
APRIL 14, 2020
We recently migrated hundreds of ZooKeeper instances from individual server instances to Kubernetes without downtime. Our approach used powerful Kubernetes features like endpoints to ease the process, so we’re sharing the high level outline of the approach for anyone who wants to follow in our footsteps. See the end for important networking prerequisites.
SQL Shack
APRIL 14, 2020
SQL Server Performance Tuning can be a difficult assignment, especially when working with a massive database where even the minor change can raise a significant impact on the existing query performance. Performance Tuning always plays a vital role in database performance as well as product performance. A query can be optimized with the proper evaluation […].
High Scalability
APRIL 14, 2020
Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. They break down interview prep into fundamental building blocks. Try out their platform. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a developm
The Polyglot Developer
APRIL 14, 2020
I’m pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast has been published to Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and pretty much every other major podcasting networking that exists. The topic of this episode, Developing on the Blockchain , is the blockchain, and I’m joined by expert Lennart Frantzell from IBM to help walk us through everything you should know when it comes to developing on it.
Dynatrace
APRIL 14, 2020
Dynatrace news. Have you ever had to provision 2,500 virtual host instances and 120 Kubernetes clusters in two days? Well, that’s exactly what the Dynatrace University team did to support Dynatrace’s hands-on training (HoT) days at Dynatrace’s annual user conference Perform in Las Vegas. The Dynatrace dashboard below that shows the thousands of EC2 instances coming up and then being removed at the close of the training.
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