Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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A sysadmin's guide to containerizing applications
Posted on November 15, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Curious how to containerize your Linux applications? Learn by example, and understand the challenges of various application types and how to overcome them. By Scott McCarty (Red Hat, Sudoer).
Tags software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd how-to leadership-and-career
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Stateful serverless on Google Cloud with Cloudstate and Akka Serverless
Posted on November 14, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In recent years, stateless middle-tiers have been touted as a simple way to achieve horizontal scalability. But the rise of microservices has pushed the limits of the stateless architectural pattern, causing developers to look for alternatives. By James Ward, Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and Viktor Klang, Head of Cloud Engineering and Deputy CTO at Lightbend.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics backend-development cloud-and-infrastructure
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Modern Distributed Data Architecture with Event Streams, Stream Processing and Derived Data
Posted on November 12, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Some of the most interesting projects I worked on at LinkedIn involved building large scale real-time pricing and machine learning products. They required crafting fault-tolerant distributed data architectures to support model training, forecasting and dynamic control systems. By Luthfur Chowdhury.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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In search for future of cloud storage, researchers look to holographic storage solutions
Posted on November 11, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Data storage has always been a key tenet of compute, and with the massive growth in cloud compute, the demand for cloud data storage has opened an avenue for both revisiting prior technologies and developing new ones. It is projected that around 125 zettabytes of data will be generated annually by 2024, and storing this in a cost-effective way is going to be a big challenge. By Benn Thomsen , Senior Principal Researcher Dushyanth Narayanan , Senior Principal Researcher Ant Rowstron , Distinguished Engineer / Deputy Lab Director.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering miscellaneous ai-and-machine-learning
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Getting started with DevOps automation
Posted on October 31, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Automation is one of the key principles for accelerating with DevOps. It enables consistency, reliability, and efficiency within the organization, making it easier for teams to discover and troubleshoot problems. By Jared Murrell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure software-engineering
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Edge computing architecture and use cases
Posted on October 26, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Benefits, challenges, and architectures when enterprises implement edge computing in Telecom and other industries. By Jason Gonzalez, Jason Hunt, Mathews Thomas, Ryan Anderson, Utpal Mangla @IBM.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career
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How data blending is leveling the playing field in online marketing
Posted on October 25, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Online marketing today is about successfully manage your social media marketing, social media advertising, PPC ads, email campaigns - if you're not careful, it can feel like throwing spaghetti at the wall just to see what works. Fortunately, data analysis and - more specifically - data blending can make your marketing decisions faster and easier to make, with more impact. By Zac Johnson.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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Rebuilding Linkerd's continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Action
Posted on October 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In mid-2019, the Linkerd project's continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes, all tests were serialized on a single Kubernetes cluster, and multi-hour backups were common. A migration onto one-off Kubernetes in Docker (kind) clusters and GitHub Actions got CI below 10 minutes, and made it parallelizable. By Andrew Seigner.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd
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Mapping Moving clouds: How to stay on top of your ephemeral environments with Cartography
Posted on October 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Staying on top of ephemeral environments is a challenge many organizations face. This blog post describes the process we undertook at Thought Machine, a cloud-native company with environments spanning across multiple cloud providers, to identify a solution able to detect, identify, categorize, and visualize all the cloud assets being deployed in an organization. Written by Marco Lancini, Security Engineer.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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InnoDB Data Locking – Part 1 Introduction
Posted on October 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this blog series, we would like to introduce you gently to the topic on which we were working over last 2 years. Improving how InnoDB locks data (tables and rows) in order to provide illusion to clients that their queries are executed one after another, while in reality there is a lot of concurrency. By Kuba Łopuszański.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Zero downtime on MySQL schema change
Posted on October 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Have you ever deployed a feature which interrupted your application because the schema change on the MySQL database has locked the table? Then I have good news for you! There are some tools like the Percona Toolkit which can apply the operation without a downtime. By Michi Lehr.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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How event driven systems work in commerce
Posted on October 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The polling system acts like the impatient customer. In a commerce-related scenario, it keeps polling the system for new updates such as orders and payment authorizations while the event driven system relies on asynchronous event handlers to notify it of updates in the system. By Sajjad Heydari.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis miscellaneous