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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)

Dynatrace

The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. It’s present in major platforms from Amazon Web Services to VMware, and services large and small. What is Log4j 2, and what does it do?

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University, 2015. The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

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Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Dynatrace

Dynatrace has added support for the newly introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway. There are five network internet protocol (IP) characteristics that are captured within each of the Transit Gateway Flow Logs for each log source. Dynatrace news. The Dynatrace VPC Flow Log analysis capability.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Act locally, connect globally with IoT and edge computing

All Things Distributed

But they usually have little to no internet connection, making the challenge of exploring environments inhospitable for humans seem even more impossible. The answer to this question is actually on your phone, your smartwatch, and billions of other places on earth—it's the Internet of Things (IoT).

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived," [link] Oct 2022 - [Intel 22] Intel, "Intel® Developer Cloud," [link] accessed Dec 2022 I've taken care to cite the author names along with the talk titles and dates, including for Internet sources, instead of the common practice of just listing URLs.