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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.

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Experiencing Perform: The diary of a developer advocate

Dynatrace

Developer personas To my surprise, I discovered that our attendees were a scattered mix across industries, with customers from airlines, healthcare, consulting, and insurance to supply chain, distribution, financial services, and likely more.

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From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Dynatrace

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. If you’re interested in receiving updates about Carbon Impact or would consider being part of our Preview program, please contact your account team or send us an email. Average cloud server idle time exceeds 70%.

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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).

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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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Would Uber be so intriguing if we thought of it as the next American Airlines?

The Agile Manager

The fleet owners - firms like International Lease Finance - are asset-heavy companies that buy and insure aircraft from manufacturers (Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus) and lease them to airlines who operate them to deliver people and parcels. It will be no less difficult to start an auto operating business).

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A graphical user interface to build apps on top of microservices

O'Reilly Software

Companies are increasingly asking their IT staffs for rapid turn-around on tasks that require programming. When IBM released early versions of the SQL programming language, they intended it for business users. Visual programming exposes all these things to the average employee.