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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources. Security Groups.

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Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale Internet services at the edge

The Morning Paper

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Working from home – tips and tricks for the testing community

Testsigma

Today, when people are working from home, they are using personal or company-provided laptops to connect to the office network. Mostly we are using a virtual desktop to stay connected to the organization’s network. Any technical glitch such as a network bandwidth issue can impact the output of the whole organization.

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Google planning a new ‘Badge of Shame’ for slow websites

MachMetrics

The idea behind these UI decisions is that a badge would let a user know quickly if a site is loading slowly due to a problem on their end (network issue, internet is down, etc) or if the website is known to be built in a way that loads slowly. Most stemmed from Google exercising too much power with this move.

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50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

The Morning Paper

Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor. The apps are driven using Android’s Application Exerciser Monkey which injects a pseudo-random stream of simulated user input events into the app (a UI fuzzer). most apps). most apps). Finding out how those apps leak data.

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iOS Engine Choice In Depth

Alex Russell

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. Project owners are territorial, fiercely guarding the integrity of their codebases.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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