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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 ). Leaders can still play a vital role in helping us to achieve more of our potential as individuals and as a society.

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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 Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. is 220 Mbps.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the language’s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior). Efficiency. Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer. Portability.

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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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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.

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

Percona

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. However, there are many parameters influencing the efficiency and consistency of the data transfer. and was GA’ed in MySQL 5.7.17.

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

Percona

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. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. A setting of 100 determines it to swap aggressively to disk.