Incident Review: Google Cloud Outage
DZone
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Outages on the Internet always catch you by surprise, whether you are the end user or the Head of Site Reliability trying to keep a clear mind while you execute your incident playbook.
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Simplify complex cloud-native environments with AI-driven observability
Dynatrace
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The complexity of modern cloud-native environments is ever-increasing. Visualizing data in context while supporting and automating decisions with causal, predictive, and generative AI—all while providing a seamless experience—is where the future of cloud observability lies.
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Hybrid cloud infrastructure explained: Weighing the pros, cons, and complexities
Dynatrace
JUNE 29, 2022
More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. What is hybrid cloud architecture?
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Cloud observability delivers on business value
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Cloud observability can bring business value, said Rick McConnell, CEO at Dynatrace. Organizations have clearly experienced growth, agility, and innovation as they move to cloud computing architecture. But without effective cloud observability, they continue to experience challenges in their cloud environments.
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2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence
Scalegrid
JUNE 11, 2019
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Cloud Infrastructure Breakdown by Database. Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 29th, 2019
High Scalability
MARCH 29, 2019
I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C.
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Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 31, 2025
The industry has always innovated, and over the last decade, it started moving towards cloud-based workflows. However, unlocking cloud innovation and all its benefits on a global scale has proven to be difficult. The need for a centralized, cloud-based solution that transcends these barriers is more pressing than ever.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 22nd, 2019
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. 2% : of sales spent by consumer packaged goods companies on R&D (14% for tech); 272 million : metric tons of plastic are produced each year around the globe; 100+ fp s: Google's Edge TPU; 6,000 : bugs per million lines of code; 2.2
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. But there’s no reason that Google and Facebook shouldn’t be accepting deposits, facilitating payments, making loans, managing assets, running quantitative investment funds. It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 15th, 2019
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MARCH 15, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. DHH : We’re stopping all major product development at Basecamp for the moment, and dedicating all our attention to fixing these single points of failure that the recent cloud outages have revealed. Worse usually is better.
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34 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018
High Scalability
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
Please support me on Patreon and you'll get 100 free cloud credits in heaven. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. vl : I have a hilarious story about this from Google: I wanted second 30" monitor, so I filed a ticket.
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Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 3rd, 2019
High Scalability
MAY 3, 2019
I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. Paul Kunert : In dollar terms, Jeff Bezos's cloud services wing grew 41 per cent year on year to $7.6bn, figures from Canalys show. Microsoft was up 75 per cent to $3.4bn and Google grew a whopping 83 per cent to $2.3bn. Makes one think.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018
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DECEMBER 7, 2018
Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 2: Alphabet (Google); No.3: Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Then please recommend my well reviewed (31 reviews on Amazon and 72 on Goodreads!) 1: Amazon; No.2:
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FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. google's @fchollet, the danger of AI propaganda. It's HighScalability time: Opportunity crossed over the rainbow bridge after 15 years of loyal service. " Our beloved Opportunity remains silent.". Do you like this sort of Stuff?
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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.
High Scalability
AUGUST 22, 2018
For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.
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220 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 Me : Clearing the Air on Cloud, 2009.
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What is cloud-native architecture? Set yourself up for cloud success
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Lifting and shifting applications from the data center to the cloud delivers only marginal benefits. Because cloud computing breaks application functions into many microservices, porting monolithic applications to the cloud unchanged can slow them down. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? Declarative APIs.
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162 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 16th, 2018
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The infrastructure is typically consumed on public clouds.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018
High Scalability
OCTOBER 19, 2018
It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The largest structure ever found in the early universe.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 21st, 2018
High Scalability
DECEMBER 21, 2018
What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.
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137 Public Cloud Postcentralization is the Thin Edge of the Wedge into the Enterprise
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. That's how services built on a cloud work. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 25th, 2019
High Scalability
JANUARY 24, 2019
Need cloud? Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). The most famous of these companies—the so-called faangs, of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google—have seen their price-earnings ratios collapse by more than 60 percent in the past two years. 3D map of a fly's brain ).
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MARCH 22, 2019
Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 Yep, there are more quotes.
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134 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Just a few more quotes.
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137 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018
High Scalability
JUNE 29, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. It would mean a great deal to me. Don't stop here.
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What is Log4Shell? The Log4Shell vulnerability explained (and what to do about it)
Dynatrace
DECEMBER 16, 2021
The vulnerability, published as CVE-2021-44228 , enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet, if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Simply put, attackers can remotely take over any internet-connected device that uses certain versions of the Log4j library anywhere in the software stack.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 6th, 2018
High Scalability
JULY 6, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Source: 10+ meetings, with different clients, I attended where the Google sales pitch was basically "we are smarter than you, and you will succumb".
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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database
Scalegrid
MAY 13, 2020
Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. The multi-cloud platform allows you to deploy and manage on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud (coming soon) cloud platforms, or VMware on-premise environments.
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The future of AI: Kelsey Hightower on how AI can raise the bar for humanity
Dynatrace
MARCH 2, 2023
Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology. He noted that a boundary is beneficial between an internet service provider and its customer. “I
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018
High Scalability
JULY 26, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love you even more. billion : Alphabet revenues; $110bn : Microsoft total revenue; $1.9 They'll love you even more. Quotes are back baby.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018
High Scalability
AUGUST 3, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Instead, let’s get every possible edge case understood by mingling Google’s training data with that from the other manufacturers.
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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation
Dynatrace
JUNE 26, 2023
Software automation is the practice of creating software applications to reduce or eliminate human intervention in repetitive, time-consuming IT tasks and cloud operations. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks. Cloud automation. Operations.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 15th, 2018
High Scalability
JUNE 15, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. Domain Specific Architectures are getting 20x and 40x improvements, not just 5-10%.
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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know
Dynatrace
JULY 31, 2020
These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. OpenTelemetry is currently a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project with the ultimate goal of providing a unified set of vendor-agnostic libraries/APIs for collecting and sending data to compatible backends.
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246 Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018
High Scalability
JUNE 22, 2018
And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,
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113 New: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. Since then the world has chosen to ride along with Google. If you like this kind of stuff, you might also like Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook.
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Top UI Automation Tools You Should Try
DZone
JUNE 1, 2020
As applications are designed and developed for varied platforms, spanning mobile, desktop, and cloud, testing user interfaces has turned into an increasingly complicated and risk-prone job. 75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. billion Smartphone users. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.
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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing
Scalegrid
JANUARY 12, 2024
What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.
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130 Are Times still Good for Load Testing?
Alex Podelko
JUNE 12, 2019
IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud (including no charge Starter Edition) appear to be available. Microsoft announced that cloud-based load testing in Microsoft Visual Studio and cloud-based load testing in Azure DevOps will be retired. However, the current version mentioned is 9.2
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243 What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?
High Scalability
AUGUST 13, 2018
For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.
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116 Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds
The Morning Paper
JUNE 18, 2019
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! The VM is reachable from the Internet? What are we talking about. What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned? The VM is running an OS?
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5 signs you need to choose cross browser testing on the cloud
Testsigma
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Now, let’s discuss the essential facts — as of August 2021, the global browser market share report by StatCounter states that around 64.92% consume content via Google Chrome, followed by Safari at 18.43%. We can observe that Samsung Internet 14.2 When we embrace the cloud, we perform end-to-end testing on the cloud itself.
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