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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

These components include schools; transportation; energy; water; and communications such as the accuracy, timeliness, and transparency of election reporting. Every hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity within modern environments.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. I’m jumping ahead a bit here, but the component of Snap which provides the transport and communications stack is called Pony Express.

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What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. The classes of CaaS. CaaS vs. FaaS.

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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. Networking. An orchestration platform has various mechanisms built in to prevent vulnerabilities such as secure container deployment pipelines, encrypted network traffic, secret stores and more.

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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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Why I hate MPI (from a performance analysis perspective)

John McCalpin

According to Dr. Bandwidth, performance analysis has two recurring themes: How fast should this code (or “simple” variations on this code) run on this hardware? The user environment defines the mapping of MPI ranks to hardware resources (cores, sockets, nodes). The MPI runtime library. in ways that are seldom transparent.

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RPCValet: NI-driven tail-aware balancing of µs-scale RPCs

The Morning Paper

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. It’s designed for “ emerging architectures featuring fully integrated NIs and hardware-terminated transport protocols.”

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