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Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, such as the Log4Shell incident in 2021, allow attackers to run malicious code on a remote system without requiring authentication or user interaction.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Downtime per year.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. The data available to our retail business is much more limited. We’ll see it in banking.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have been largely adopted in a variety of real-life scenarios such as telephony systems with automated speech responses or help for visually or speech-impaired people. TTS systems have continuously evolved through the last few decades and are nowadays capable of delivering a fairly natural-sounding speech.

AWS 164