Wed.Aug 16, 2023

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency.

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SLO burn: SLO monitoring and alerting on SLOs using error-budget burn rates with unified observability and AI

Dynatrace

For most organizations, online service reliability that balances innovation and uptime is a primary goal. SLO monitoring and alerting on SLOs using error-budget burn rates are critical capabilities that can help organizations achieve that goal. In the digital age, a company’s success depends on the reliability of its online services. To manage this crucial aspect, many companies adopt service level objectives (SLOs).

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Choosing an OLAP Engine for Financial Risk Management: What To Consider?

DZone

From a data engineer's point of view, financial risk management is a series of data analysis activities on financial data. The financial sector imposes its unique requirements on data engineering. This post explains them with a use case of Apache Doris and provides a reference for what you should take into account when choosing an OLAP engine in a financial scenario.

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Streamline the SQL Code: Guide to pgFormatter

Percona

In database management, well-formatted SQL code is easier to read and a vital aspect of maintaining clean, efficient, and error-free databases. PostgreSQL developers and database administrators often deal with complex SQL queries, making code readability a critical factor for productivity. A powerful tool designed to beautify and standardize SQL code is pgFormatter.

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Curbing Connection Churn in Zuul

The Netflix TechBlog

By Arthur Gonigberg , Argha C Plaintext Past When Zuul was designed and developed , there was an inherent assumption that connections were effectively free, given we weren’t using mutual TLS (mTLS). It’s built on top of Netty , using event loops for non-blocking execution of requests, one loop per core. To reduce contention among event loops, we created connection pools for each, keeping them completely independent.

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The Swedbank Outage shows that Change Controls don't work

High Scalability

This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. It temporarily left nearly a million customers with incorrect balances, many of whom were unable to meet payments.