The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. We want to extend the system to support CPU oversubscription.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data observability involves monitoring and managing the internal state of data systems to gain insight into the data pipeline, understand how data evolves, and identify any issues that could compromise data integrity or reliability. An erroneous change in the database system leads to a subset of the data being categorized incorrectly.

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DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, an airline that cares about providing excellent experience to high-value customers might have a loyalty status and mark those high-value customers as ‘Premium.’ That information is not set and managed within Dynatrace but in a CRM system deep inside the infrastructure. Names of user cohorts, segments, or campaigns.

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Analytics Mobile Airlines Monitoring 208

Brendan Gregg

JULY 21, 2024

Windows computers around the world encountered blue-screens-of-death and boot loops, causing outages for hospitals, airlines, banks, grocery stores, media broadcasters, and more. This was caused by a config update by a security company for their widely used product that included a kernel driver on Windows systems.

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Airlines Programming Google Media 135

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Scania is planning to use AWS for their connected vehicle systems, which allows truck owners to track their vehicles, collect real-time running data, and run diagnostics to understand when maintenance is needed to reduce vehicle downtime. AWS is helping them reach their goal of becoming the leader in sustainable transport.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

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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Metrics Website Airlines Speed 66

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I just received a note from United Airlines that I had flown 1 million miles on their airline. All Things Distributed. A Million Miles Away. By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. Comments ().

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Airlines AWS Scalability Engineering 67

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Their design tools database features tools for everything from UI design and prototyping, to user flow and handoff, design systems and versioning. That’s the number of actions a customer needs to complete to buy an American Airlines ticket. UX Tools teaches you the real-world skills you need to build user-first experiences.

Airlines 136

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 136

Particular Software

APRIL 3, 2023

Did you ever stop to think about all the software systems involved in tracking your luggage on your journey? From the moment you drop it off at your departure airport to the moment you breathe that sigh of relief as it shows up on the baggage carousel is a complex story of messaging and system integrations.

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Airlines Systems Processing Design 52

Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Unrestricted connection settings: Leaving connection settings, such as max_connections and per-user limits, wide open exposes the system to malicious Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. These attacks can rapidly consume available connections, leaving legitimate users unable to connect and disrupting system functionality.

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Servers Database C++ Airlines 107

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%. flydubai chose to build their online check-in platform on AWS and went from design to production in four months.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 117

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

This data would be collated and authored in a Web Content Management System (WCMS) by a content editor. We had marketers from a Traditional CMS background who resisted the idea of delving into multiple systems and services when using a headless CMS. When modeling content schemas, think of the future. Look out for: Robust workflows.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 28, 2018

He spoke of an airline that has microservices for travel services, customer profile data, flight information, and other elements of their workflow. It can also extend an existing system, or add some logic that stitches two microservices together. Visual programming exposes all these things to the average employee.

Airlines 68

Airlines Programming Education Mobile 68

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

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. Avoiding the complexity and delay required to build custom information management systems that can provide this information.

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Logistics Airlines Ecommerce Scalability 84

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

However, it imposes the burden that everyone participates in a common tracing system and consistently makes the effort to log interactions. In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

Testlodge

MARCH 28, 2018

Every software system is subject to a disaster, and these events can have a massive impact on the business. Recovery testing involves measuring and determining the following: How long does it take for your system to resume normal operations? What percentage of scenarios can your system successfully recover from?

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Testing Airlines Hardware Software 50

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Airlines or rail transport companies could also use this for their quality control by running an algorithm based on the image data of the freight; the algorithm would recognize damaged goods and automatically sort them out. Today we can predict precisely how many shirts in a certain size and color will be sold on a defined day.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 111

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest to adjust plane and crew schedules. It is, optimistically, an exchange of current system sustainability risk for the combination of development risk and future system sustainability risk.

Airlines 52

Airlines Logistics Government Technology 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Store engineering squad - focus on software and systems required for the storefront including point-of-sales system, promotions, etc. Back-office engineering squad - customer support, business intelligence, real-estate management, systems for finance & HR, etc.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. This increases the level of technical debt and makes it more fragile.

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Architecture Innovation Airlines Technology 97

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 17, 2020

Picture taken by Adrian March 17, 2020 A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. The system needs to maintain a safety margin that is capable of absorbing failure via defense in depth, and failure modes need to be prioritized to take care of the most likely and highest impact risks.

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Healthcare Government Airlines Systems 52

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

In one sense, labour is to the IT industry as jet fuel is to the airline industry: IT is beholden to its people, just as airplanes don’t fly without fuel. The commodity model also ignores how advanced IT systems are delivered. This requires a high degree of skill from those executing.

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Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Airlines are pursuing new revenue streams with captive in-flight technology. Although at some point each makes use of utility services such as cloud computing and ERP systems, these are strategic competitive investments into the business. At the same time, firms invest in themselves through technology.

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Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

Tech News Gather

JUNE 4, 2023

They can deliver relevant information about airline delays and gate changes. Android Android, being the most used mobile operating system globally, offers a massive user base for travel businesses to target. It helps companies to offer prompt and personalized customer service. It can also boost customer satisfaction.

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Mobile Airlines Strategy Analytics 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

However, consumers often prioritize availability in many systems. Furthermore, there are many recognized standards to measure the availability of a service or system, and the most common one is to measure it as a percentage."Five minutes of downtime per year, which means the system is almost always operational.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Obviously, we don't want to pay to maintain multiple e-Commerce sites or pay licensing fees for multiple ERP systems. We need to combine systems, and do so quickly. There are plenty of cookie-cutter frameworks for combining businesses, even their technology systems and operations. True, but not very helpful.

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Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Still, this is more disruptive than developing technologies that mimic existing functionality in the same segment: being late to the game with a "me, too" strategy does not generate much in the way of behaviour change.

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Social Media Entertainment Airlines Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline).

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Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

Tasktop

AUGUST 12, 2022

Integrations between internal and external systems belonging to clients or suppliers . API integrations are connections between two or more applications that let those systems exchange data. . Developers build connectors, which establish a pattern of communication between two systems via their APIs. .

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Software Software DevOps Strategy 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems Sathaye et al., Today’s paper is a good reminder of just how important it is becoming to consider cyber threat models in what are primary physical systems, especially if you happen to be flying on an aeroplane – which I am right now as I write this! A quick primer on ILS.

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Wireless Systems Airlines Hardware 91