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The Paradox of Leadership

Edge Perspectives

Here, I am going to focus on institutional leaders, but I have also explored the implications for systems leaders as part of my work leading a World Economic Forum Council (our white paper is available as a pdf here ). In fact, one might even argue that we need these leaders more than ever.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. is 220 Mbps.

Cloud 237
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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons). Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer.

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DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021: Leadership and OKRs

Tasktop

The European leg of the DevOps Enterprise (Virtual) Summit 2021 returned last week (17-20 May) as the community reflected on a year like none other. There was plenty of positivity in the (virtual) air as speakers and attendees shared stories of heart, ingenuity, courage and resilience.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication. wsrep patches / Galera Library This solution is virtually synchronous, which is comparable to Group Replication. and it has many advantages.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down. they are never really idle. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms.

Energy 52
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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.