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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. The computers you stopped using aren’t following the sun.

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Observability engineering: Getting Prometheus metrics right for Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Kepler

Dynatrace

An essential observability engineering tool Prometheus is an open-source telemetry database service that records and stores custom software metrics and provides a standardized interface to pull (in Prometheus terms, “scrape”) data using HTTP requests. There are quite a few metrics we won’t immediately need for our use case of energy usage.

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Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

Dynatrace

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. Another key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 is organizations’ growing adoption of platform engineering , which helps accelerate the delivery of software applications.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130
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Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how Dynatrace automation and the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian can help you implement your applications according to all six AWS Well-Architected pillars by integrating them into your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services. Here are some great examples from different industries each with unique use cases.

Cloud 129
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Dynatrace log collection for ARM unlocks power-efficient architecture for your enterprise

Dynatrace

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Legacy data center infrastructure and software support have kept all the benefits of ARM at, well… arm’s length.