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Balancing Low Latency, High Availability, and Cloud Choice

VoltDB

As a result, IT teams picked hardware somewhat blindly but with a strong bias towards oversizing for the sake of expanding the budget, leading to systems running at 10-15% of maximum capacity. Prototypes, experiments, and tests Development and testing historically involved end-of-life or ‘spare’ hardware. When is the cloud a bad idea?

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. As a bonus, operations staff never needs to update operating systems or hardware, because AWS manages servers with no stoppage of application functionality.

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From Idea to Reality: The Journey of Developing a Smart Home App

Tech News Gather

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. Selecting the right home automation equipment is increasingly crucial for household management.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Joined OrionX to do some analyst and advisory work

Adrian Cockcroft

OrionX has an ambitious agenda, to identify the biggest technology trends and track how those trends influence each other, and to translate that to business strategy and market execution in a very broad set of markets. Together, we can also develop and share ideas around technology trends.

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 4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

Testsigma

Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. Here are some examples: Test Environment Setup: Installing libraries using scripts Setting configuration variables, etc.

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What is observability? Not just logs, metrics and traces

Dynatrace

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

There are high hopes for 5G , for example unlocking new applications in UHD streaming and VR, and machine-to-machine communication in IoT. Here the first finding was that the current strategy for determining when to hand-off has a 25% probability of worsening your link performance after handover. The short answer is no.

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