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Don’t follow the sun: Scheduling compute workloads to chase green energy can be counter-productive

Adrian Cockcroft

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. So it’s good practice to cron-jitter start times.

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

McKinsey summarizes the importance of this focus: “Every company uses energy and resources; every company affects and is affected by the environment.” The app translates utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). And the time to act is now. Two charts complete the dashboard.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright.

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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

And how can you verify this performance consistently across a multicloud environment that also uses Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform frameworks? But how can you ensure that your applications meet these pillars and deliver the best outcomes for your business? SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus switched to fears of an imminent nuclear holocaust. But it is far from alone.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments.

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8 Challenges of mobile app testing and how to solve them?

Testsigma

Consider a scenario where we are using Google Chrome 86 as the latest version. Fifteen days later, Google Chrome was updated to version 87 with an FTP API being deprecated. Mobile Network Issues. Mobile network bandwidth testing is something without which the mobile app testing cannot be considered complete.

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