Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure? The mandate explains why this is the case: “A reasonable investor would [not] view a significant breach of a registrant’s data as immaterial merely because the data were housed on a third-party system ….

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. Cloud computing has become a widely-used model of computing, as it offers a number of benefits over traditional, on-premises computing systems. Can you expand? Are you hosted on the cloud?

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach which enables training on a large corpus of decentralized data residing on devices like mobile phones.

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Systems Design Google Servers 71

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Machine learning systems are stuck in a rut Barham & Isard, HotOS’19. In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Challenges optimising whole programs. “ Challenges evolving programming languages. GPU and TPU).

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Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

There are several problems efficient test scheduling could help us solve: Quickly detect a regression in the integration of the Netflix SDK on a consumer electronic or MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) device. Likewise it has very low requirements on the initial amount of training data.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. They don’t have visibility or “observability” in their systems. What’s the root cause?

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Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 169

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

Similarly, using the best programming language for your website is also crucial. When it comes to programming languages, you will find many options, but PHP is the most viable option to choose. It is one of the most preferred programming languages used by developers across the globe for website development. What is PHP?

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Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. We’re already seeing the beginning of this direction with conversational programming and operations tooling like DoTheThing.ai

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Over the last 11 years, AWS has expanded its physical presence in the country, opening an office in La Defense and launching Edge Network Locations in Paris and Marseille. These teams are helping customers and partners of all sizes, including systems integrators and ISVs, to move to the cloud.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 14, 2020

For Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning (PIRL) as we shall soon see, it’s a minimal functional language and an accompanying program sketch. Ultimately it’s that learned and interpretable (by humans as well as machines) expression that we deploy in our systems. In PIRL, Verma et al. A DSL for policies.

Programming 63

Programming Network Games Processing 63

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. In the education sector we have been supporting the development of technology and cloud skills amongst tertiary institutes in the Middle East through the AWS Educate program.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

Dynatrace

MARCH 10, 2021

In contrast, envision an AI-driven intelligent system that accurately provides the answers—in this case, the technical root cause of the anomaly, all contextual and associated information, and how to fix it. It needs to collect a substantial amount of data at the beginning to build a training dataset that an algorithm can begin to learn from.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence Innovation 143

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. Enabling students to build running performant versions of all of those systems in the time available is one challenge.

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Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This helps support over 50 million searches every month on its networks across Italy. AWS also has a vibrant partner ecosystem in Italy as part of the AWS Partner Network (APN). In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate. This program gives startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In a classic 1983 paper , cognitive psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge drew attention to a curious irony: so-called “automated” systems were, in practice, usually attended by one or more human operators. The more advanced the system, she observed, “the more crucial…the contribution of the human operator.”

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

Users can access interactive maps, trail recommendations, and educational content highlighting ecological systems, biodiversity, and conservation efforts. Music education and instrument training apps Unleash the musical potential within users through an app that offers comprehensive music lessons and instrument training.

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Education Virtualization Innovation Transportation 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

Mirae Asset Global Investments improved its web service environment and reduced annual management costs by 50% by consolidating the management of all web services, including servers, network, database, and security. Many of these enterprises are assisted by our extensive partner ecosystem in Korea.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 110

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks. Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Network Disconnections. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc.

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Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 12, 2020

Last week we looked at some of the challenges inherent in automation and in building systems where humans and software agents collaborate. Today’s paper choice sets out some of the current (additional) challenges we face getting reinforcement learning to work well in many real-world systems. from system logs).

Programming 43

Programming Systems Efficiency Network 43

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

We are faced with quickly building a nationwide logistics network and standing up well more than 50,000 vaccination centers. The in-memory computing system which hosts them typically runs as a cloud service (such as the ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service ) that transparently scales to handle as many data sources as needed.

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Logistics Airlines Analytics Ecommerce 84

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The findings from our 2023 Open Source Database Report highlight that a substantial 42% of all database instances are now licensed through community-supported open source models, and GitHub reports that over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have established open source program offices (OSPO) to coordinate and manage their open source initiatives.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Raven is the system that Microsoft built to explore this question, and answer it with a resounding yes. Unlike SQL queries which are declarative, such models are expressed as imperative programs heavily dependent on libraries. matrix multiplication and convolution), higher level machine learning operators (e.g. categorical encoding).

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Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Submit #lisa18 talk, training, panel, and demo proposals by May 24 [link].

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DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

However, we often hear anecdotes that the number of prospective graduate students applying to computer architecture/systems is small and shrinking. Not all computer science degree programs offer computer architecture classes to undergrads, and ones that do, may offer it as one of many electives. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Submit #lisa18 talk, training, panel, and demo proposals by May 24 [link].

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Improving your hiring fortunes is not just about optimising your hiring process, it’s about making systemic changes to your organisation. especially programming languages. If you want to hire top people in less time and for lower costs you need to think more holistically. If you don’t code, please read carefully…. learn new skills?—?especially

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Open Source Engineering Java 40

Testsigma

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Deep learning : Uses multiple layers of neural networks that extract information progressively from the input. Cognitive computing : These systems or software mimic how humans think and help in improving human decision-making capabilities. Two main kinds include supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. trillion in 2021.

Artificial Intelligence 54

Artificial Intelligence Testing Healthcare Innovation 54

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Additionally, low latency increasingly matters at all scales: In user interfaces, low latency means responsive apps and productive users without the dreaded “wait…” donut; in financial trading, low latency regularly saves large amounts of cash; in embedded real-time systems, low latency is crucial to meeting deadlines and can even save lives.

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Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yet we continue to find new applications for software: it is increasingly a product differentiator (embedded systems) or a product category of its own (social networking). Plus, the diversity of programming languages and the complexity of environments encourages labor specialization and task management.

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Software Software Development Government 73

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

3] Oh, and it should be imperatively programmed with Lisp-in-C's-clothing. Recall that browsers arose atop platforms that universally provided a host of services by the late 90's: system fonts (to support layout programs, including WYSIWYG editing). multi-tasking & concurrent programming. high-color image raster.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279