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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic.

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. For some background, Kubernetes was created by Google and is currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Hardware resources. Software that’s running.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

Second, optimization efforts for JavaScript were the subject of probably millions of developer hours by a number of companies, notably Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, and built on decades of research in the PL community on how to optimize such languages (starting with the Self project , which started in the late 80s). MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

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The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet.

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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.

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Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy

The Morning Paper

Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. … to realize these insights, hardware needs to access data at object granularity and must have control over pointers between objects. It also reduces memory traffic by 56% and improves performance by 17%.

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