Remove Airlines Remove Network Remove Programming
article thumbnail

No More Blue Fridays

Brendan Gregg

Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology. eBPF programs cannot crash the entire system because they are safety-checked by a software verifier and are effectively run in a sandbox.

Airlines 135
article thumbnail

Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. We formulate the problem as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP).

Cache 256
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

All Things Distributed

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.

Cloud 117
article thumbnail

Real-Time Digital Twins Can Help Expedite Vaccine Distribution

ScaleOut Software

We are faced with quickly building a nationwide logistics network and standing up well more than 50,000 vaccination centers. Widely used to track ecommerce shopping carts, financial transactions, airline flights and much more, in-memory computing can quickly store, retrieve, and analyze large volumes of live data.

article thumbnail

Human Factors Behind Incidents: Why Settings Like “idle_session_timeout” Can Be a Bad Idea

Percona

Unexpected connection leaks: Unanticipated connection leaks can also arise from programming errors or faulty application logic. It should be a tight scrutiny like airline security. Use network timeouts There are alternative approaches if we suspect that the connections are just leaked without the application holding them.

Servers 107
article thumbnail

The Power of Integrated Analytics Within an IMDG

ScaleOut Software

Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others. Because all the work is performed with the IMDG, this has the two-fold advantage of offloading both the network and the client’s CPU.

article thumbnail

The Power of Integrated Analytics Within an IMDG

ScaleOut Software

Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others. Because all the work is performed with the IMDG, this has the two-fold advantage of offloading both the network and the client’s CPU.