Sat.Mar 11, 2023 - Fri.Mar 17, 2023

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Failure Mitigation for Microservices: An Intro to Aperture

DoorDash Engineering

When dealing with failures in a microservice system, localized mitigation mechanisms like load shedding and circuit breakers have always been used, but they may not be as effective as a more globalized approach. These localized mechanisms ( as demonstrated in a systematic study on the subject published at SoCC 2022 ) are useful in preventing individual services from being overloaded, but they are not very effective in dealing with complex failures that involve interactions between services, whic

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Article: The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—A Journey in Three Parts

InfoQ Articles

In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain.

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Get started with new role-based onboarding trainings for Databricks Lakehouse Platform

databricks

The demand for data, analytics, and AI talent continues to grow as organizations in every industry adopt new technologies to become more efficient.

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Data is Risky Business: I Want My ChatGPT

TDAN

The world is a-buzz with articles about ChatGPT and other Large Learning Models such as Google’s Bard. The tone and tenor of these articles range from blind hype to abject horror. Some of the hype sounds like a bad paraphrase of Dire Straits: “Look at them losers, that’s the way you do it.

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Data Observability vs. Monitoring vs. Testing

Dataversity

Companies are spending a lot of money on data and analytics capabilities, creating more and more data products for people inside and outside the company. These products rely on a tangle of data pipelines, each a choreography of software executions transporting data from one place to another. As these pipelines become more complex, it’s important […] The post Data Observability vs.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are. How it used to be When I started my career in networking, servers were down the hall or in the campus data center.

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Article: The Future of Istio: Sidecar-Less and Sidecar with Ambient Mesh

InfoQ Articles

Istio's new ambient mesh allows for a sidecar-less data plane. This article discusses the advantages of that approach and the work that went into making it a reality.

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Is Data the Achilles Heel of AI?

Dataversity

As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” Add this 21st-century irrefutable fact: The world can’t live without data. With its numbers, characters, facts, and statistics – the operations performed, stored, and analyzed – data has become an irreplaceable facet of daily life. We use data to identify strengths and weaknesses.

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Securing Your Network Against Attacks: Prevent, Detect, and Mitigate Cyberthreats

Kentik

As networks become distributed and virtualized, the points at which they can be made vulnerable, or their threat surface , expands dramatically. Multi- and hybrid cloud infrastructures add further complexity to securing threat surfaces, adding even more variability to permissions, configuration points for human error to enter the scene, and network boundaries to exploit.

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Real-Time Insights: The Top Three Reasons Why Customers Love Data Streaming with Databricks

databricks

The world operates in real-time The ability to make real-time decisions in today's fast paced world is more critical than ever before. Today's.

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Whatever happened to Big Data?

Confluent

Big data was a core term for any company doing data engineering and analytics. Learn how big data has changed and evolved, leading to the fundamental cloud services of today.

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Article: Contract-Driven Development – A Real-World Adoption Journey

InfoQ Articles

Contract-driven development adoption is not just about tooling or practices, it involves changing how people work with each other and in order to influence such changes, the roadmap for adoption should account for the learning curve and demonstrate value incrementally at each stage to individual team members and the organization as a whole.

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Stakeholder Engagement for Data Governance Program Success

TDAN

A successful data governance program can reap tremendous benefits for an organization, including: 1) trusted, timely, secure, and easily available data for authorized users, 2) data-driven decision making, 3) being nimble to ever-changing regulatory landscape, 4) future-focused business insights, innovation, data monetization and 5) competitive advantage, cost savings, and credibility.

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Production-Ready and Resilient Disaster Recovery for DLT Pipelines

databricks

Disaster recovery is a standard requirement for many production systems, especially in the regulated industries. As many companies rely on data to make.

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Heavy Networking 670: The Challenges And Satisfactions Of Building And Running A Mastodon Instance

Packet Pushers

On todays Heavy Networking I talk with two people who have built and are running Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance which orients itself towards technical-minded folks. What started as a cool project in the basement suddenly grew to tens of thousands of users. I talk with Hachyderm's founders on how they scaled, problems they encountered, how they solved problems, and how they grappled with technical and human challenges.

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Article: Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It

InfoQ Articles

Achieving a balance between growth and efficiency can be a formidable task. However, software engineers can play a critical role at the nexus of both. This article discusses open source software tools and methodologies for balancing carbon with growth across IT organizations, and provides actionable approaches to greening IT organizations.

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The Fast and the Frustrated: A Guide to Troubleshooting and How to Improve Latency

Obkio

In this guide, learn how to troubleshoot and improve network latency with fun analogies, step-by-step instructions, and tips for both users and businesses.

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Building the Lakehouse for Healthcare and Life Sciences - Processing DICOM images at scale with ease

databricks

One of the biggest challenges in understanding patient health status and disease progression is unlocking insights from the vast amounts of semi-structured and.

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Multiple GRE tunnels towards single host using anycast IP

Network Engineering

I'm trying to build the following network architecture: Where clients try to connect to a backend server (e.g. SSH) by using a Public Anycast IP adddress (1.2.3.4), that routes the client to the closest entrypoint. There are 2 entrypoints: Entrypoint 1 in London, with Public IP 3.3.3.3, which receives the traffic from clients in Europe. Entrypoint 2 in Sao Paulo, with Public IP 2.2.2.2, which receives traffic from clients in America.

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The Benefits of DRaaS

Akins IT

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions have revolutionized the way organizations approach disaster recovery and have become a popular option for organizations looking to protect their critical data and applications from the effects of a disruption. So what is DRaaS and why is it so important? Similar to other as a service solutions, DRaaS is disaster recovery functionality hosted by a third party.

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The Velocloud Network Monitoring Jigsaw Puzzle: Putting Your Network Pieces Together

Obkio

Learn how to solve the puzzle of Velocloud network monitoring with a step-by-step guide. Discover tools you need for a complete view of your SD-WAN network.

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Level up with Databricks at Game Developers Conference

databricks

We're thrilled to announce that Databricks will be sponsoring Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world's largest professional game industry event, taking place March.

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How Zero Trust Can Help Prevent Data Breaches

Dataversity

Data breaches occur when sensitive information, such as financial data, personal identities, or confidential business information, is accessed and potentially disclosed to unauthorized parties. This can happen due to various reasons such as hacking, malware, human error, or weak security measures. The consequences of a data breach can be significant and far-reaching, including: Common Types […] The post How Zero Trust Can Help Prevent Data Breaches appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Day Two Cloud 186: A Day In The Life Of A Sales Engineer With Pete Robertson

Packet Pushers

Today's Day Two Cloud episode gets into sales engineering. IT pros may look down on sales for not being a strictly technical discipline, but it turns out there's more overlap between an engineer and a sales engineer than you might think. Both have to solve problems, understand requirements, and design and deliver outcomes. Our guest is Pete Robertson, a sales engineer for a value-added reseller.

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How to Detect and Identify Intermittent Network Problems

Obkio

Learn how to detect intermittent network problems to troubleshoot performance issues that are hard to catch with Obkio Network Monitoring software.

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Unlock the Power of Your Game Data and AI with Our Ultimate Guide

databricks

Is your game studio looking to stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving industry? Look no further than our Ultimate Guide.

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How Data Integrity Can Maximize Business Value

Dataversity

The last few years have demonstrated how critical it is for businesses to maintain agility and make fast, confident decisions to stay ahead. The resulting economic uncertainty and growth of industry-wide trends, including ESG, cloud migration, and the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning programs – such as OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-3 model and […] The post How Data Integrity Can Maximize Business Value appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Software Architecture Workshops

Apium Academy

Apium Academy was honored to be part of the Global Software Architecture Summit last year, an event organized by Apiumhub , the software development hub based in Barcelona. We had the pleasure of offering software architecture workshops to our clients and former students who attended GSAS. Software Architecture Workshops by Leading Software Architects Thinking Architecturally by Nathaniel Schutta Rich Hickey once said programmers know the benefits of everything and the trade-offs of nothingan ap

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Network Performance Monitoring Tools: Choose Your Fighter - Network Edition

Obkio

Choose your Ultimate Fighter: Network Performance Monitoring tool to ensure optimal network performance. Learn about the types of tools, features & uses.

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Enhancing the Amperity CDP with Personalized Product Recommendations

databricks

Personalization provides organizations a means to more directly connect with customers' needs and preferences. In a crowded retail landscape, such targeted engagement is.

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Fractal Software Architecture

UML Zone

Why is software development so difficult? A major reason is that you spend more time reading than writing code. If you can decrease the time required to read existing code, you can increase productivity. You can decrease the time you waste reading complicated code by writing code that’s easy to read – code that fits […] The post Fractal Software Architecture first appeared on Software Architecture & Design.

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Data’s Gender Gap: What Data Goes Into the Products We Use?

TDAN

What is data without research? And how else can we know we have good, usable data except besides knowing that we have conducted good, thorough research? In recent months, controversy has popped up across news channels regarding Thinx Underwear.

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How to Perform a Network Assessment Like A Network Detective

Obkio

Learn how to perform a network assessment with Obkio Network Monitoring to optimize network performance for a new service deployment or migration.

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Transparency, visibility, data: Optimizing the Manufacturing Supply Chain with a Semantic Lakehouse

databricks

This is a collaborative post from Databricks, Tredence, and AtScale. Over the last three years, demand imbalances and supply chain swings have amplified.

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Create Stream Designer Pipelines with the Confluent CLI and Pipelines API

Confluent

With built-in integrations, pipelines REST API, a full SQL editor, and more, you can build data streaming applications easily using Confluent's Stream Designer.

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Sentiment Analysis To Connect With Customers

TDAN

Customers are constantly giving feedback on products or services they have received. But how can retailers use this to create a better service? It can take time to track customer satisfaction rates and reviews. But there are benefits to analyzing customer sentiment.

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Network Break 421: Huawei Is Both In And Out Of German Networks; Hot-Desking Rubs Hybrid Workers Wrong

Packet Pushers

Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine Germany's mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks, and debate whether employees' frustration over Google's desk-sharing plan is just entitled whining or a legitimate complaint. Plus more IT news. Take a Network Break! On today's episode we discuss a record quarter for switch sales, examine Germany's mixed signals about allowing Huawei gear in its networks, and debate whether employees'

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