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Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

Downtime makes headlines: 2015 – 12-hour Apple outage cost the company $25 million 2016 – 5-hour outage caused an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines 2019 – 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million It's easy to see why these stories capture our attention. These are big numbers!

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Introducing Dynatrace built-in data observability on Davis AI and Grail

Dynatrace

Scenario : Due to an undetected configuration issue, a flight status system from a popular airline had been buffering data for the last two hours before sending it on in one batch. Observing the freshness of data helps to ensure that decisions are based on the most recent and relevant information.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud. One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region.

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Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Scalegrid

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data.

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Lost messages are just as bad as lost luggage

Particular Software

ARINC is a global service used by many airlines, but it’s not the easiest service to work with. Assuming a made-up airline code XX , the canonical form of a flight number is XX0460 , but some systems might represent that as a shorter XX460 , but that’s just the start of it. Air travel is only one example.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. First and foremost, being intentional about organisation design requires good and honest discussions about all possible option. Airline crew pairing and composition problem is an area of deep research.

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How To Choose A Headless CMS

Smashing Magazine

Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes! This speeds up the retrieval process and brings in performance improvements to your application. When modeling content schemas, think of the future. there was a separate subdomain for a mobile website).

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