October, 2024

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Introducing the New Dapr Jobs API and Scheduler Service

DZone

The Dapr 1.14 release last month included many new capabilities and was feature-packed. This included the addition of a new Jobs API and Scheduler control plane service for managing jobs. Over the years, the Dapr project was often requested to include a Jobs API. The Scheduler service enables this and is designed to address the performance and scalability improvements on Actor reminders and the Workflow API.

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Dynatrace achieves SOC 1 Type II certification

Dynatrace

What is SOC 1 Type II? SOC 1 (Service Organization Control 1) is a widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). It focuses on controls related to financial reporting. The “Type II” designation means that an independent auditor evaluated our controls over a period of time (typically six months) and confirmed the controls’ effectiveness.

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Introducing Netflix TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital. In previous blog posts, we introduced the Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer and the Data Gateway Platform , both of which are integral to Netflix’s data architectu

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Best PostgreSQL GUI [2024]

Scalegrid

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a simple declarative programming language utilized by various technology and business professionals to extract and transform data. Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1.

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The Ultimate Contract Templates for Tech Consultants: Protect Your Business and Get Paid

CSS Wizardry

As a tech consultant , having airtight contracts isn’t just about the paperwork—it’s about protecting your business and ensuring you get paid on time. I’ve developed a Contracts Starter Pack specifically for tech consultants to address common challenges, such as securing intellectual property, managing payment terms, and avoiding scope creep. Why You Need Contract Templates as a Tech Consultant In the fast-paced world of tech consulting—especially where shorter, more tactical engagement are conc

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AI Flame Graphs

Brendan Gregg

Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 2030 1. At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called AI Flame Graphs : a visualization that shows an AI accelerator or GPU hardware profile along with the full software stack, based on my CPU flame graphs.

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Dapr and Service Meshes: Better Together

DZone

There are many reasons why Kubernetes is a popular container runtime platform for distributed applications. One of these reasons is the portability and flexibility that it provides to IT architects. However, the difficulties of service discovery, infrastructure reliability, and security are known challenges that result from these benefits. From challenges, opportunities are created, and many tools have risen to mitigate common problems faced by teams that benefit from containerized applications

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Investigation of a Workbench UI Latency Issue

The Netflix TechBlog

By: Hechao Li and Marcelo Mayworm With special thanks to our stunning colleagues Amer Ather , Itay Dafna , Luca Pozzi , Matheus Leão , and Ye Ji. Overview At Netflix, the Analytics and Developer Experience organization, part of the Data Platform, offers a product called Workbench. Workbench is a remote development workspace based on Titus that allows data practitioners to work with big data and machine learning use cases at scale.

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Rift Between Junior and Senior Developers

O'Reilly

I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced developer knows: There’s more than one good solution to every problem.

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Tracking Dual Passwords in MySQL

Percona

We already have blog posts about Dual Password in MySQL from Brian Sumpter – Using MySQL 8 Dual Passwords, and from Marco Tusa – MySQL Dual Passwords – How To Manage Them Programmatically Let’s skip the details about dual passwords and focus on tracking password usage.

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Notes on tuning postgres for cpu and memory benchmarking

n0derunner

Recently I wanted to measure the impact of NUMA placement and Hugepages on the performance of postgres running in a VM on a Nutanix node. To do this I needed to drive postgres to do real transactions but have very little jitter/noise from the filesystem and storage. After reading a lot of blogs I came … The post Notes on tuning postgres for cpu and memory benchmarking appeared first on n0derunner.

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Close Site Search Indexing via Kubernetes HAProxy Ingress

DZone

In Kubernetes , Ingress resources are frequently used as traffic controllers, providing external access to services within the cluster. Ingress is essential for routing incoming traffic to your service; however, there may be scenarios in which you want to prevent search engines from indexing your service's content: it might be a development environment or something else.

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Dynatrace named Cloud Security Platform of the Year in the 2024 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards

Dynatrace

We are excited to share that Dynatrace has been named the Cloud Security Platform of the Year in the prestigious 2024 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. CyberSecurity Breakthrough is a leading independent market intelligence organization that highlights the top companies, technologies, and products in the global information security market. Leading the way in cloud observability and security Dynatrace leverages three advanced AI technologies—causal, predictive, and generative AI—to provide compr

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Podcast interview: Rust and C++

Sutter's Mill

In early September I had a very enjoyable technical chat with Steve Klabnik of Rust fame and interviewer Kevin Ball of Software Engineering Daily, and the podcast is now available. Disclaimer: Please just ignore the “vs” part of the “Rust vs C++” title. The rest of the page is a much more accurate description of a really fun discussion I’d be happy to do again anytime!

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Introducing AI Assistance in Chrome DevTools

Addy Osmani

Introducing AI Assistance in Chrome DevTools, a new feature that brings AI-powered coding assistance to the familiar Chrome DevTools environment.

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Abandonware in Popular Open Source Databases

Percona

Inspired by this comment in the Hacker News discussion, I posted polls on my LinkedIn network about the tendency (or perception of tendency) to abandon features without deprecating them in some of the most popular open source databases – MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.

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Platform Strategy and Its Discontents

Alex Russell

This post is an edited and expanded version of a now-mangled Mastodon thread. Platforms Are Competitions.and We're Losing Win Condition You Do It To Yourself, And That's What Really Hurts Groundhog Day Reboot Some in the JavaScript community imagine that I harbour an irrational dislike of their tools when, in fact, I want nothing more than to stop thinking about them.

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Cloud Cost Optimization: New Strategies for the AI Era

DZone

In today's volatile economic landscape, enterprises are scrutinizing their cloud bills more than ever. Platform teams are at the forefront of this challenge, tasked with finding innovative ways to optimize usage and drive down costs. To gain insights into this evolving field, we spoke with Kapil Thangavelu , co-founder and CTO of Stacklet and the creator and lead maintainer of Cloud Custodian.

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Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure in Australia enables regional customers to leverage AI-powered observability

Dynatrace

As modern multicloud environments become more distributed and complex, having real-time insights into applications and infrastructure while keeping data residency in local markets is crucial. Dynatrace on Microsoft Azure allows enterprises to streamline deployment, gain critical insights, and automate manual processes. The result? Optimized performance and enhanced customer experiences.

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Live AMA tomorrow (Friday): Meeting C++ Online

Sutter's Mill

Tomorrow I’ll be joining Jens Weller for a live AMA on “Meeting C++ online.” The coordinates are: Link: Meeting C++ live with Herb Sutter + live on LinkedIn and Facebook Date: Friday 2024-10-11 Time: social hour starts at 19:00 CEST, AMA starts at 20:00 CEST I’m looking forward to your technical questions about C++26 evolution, cppfront, Rust, reflection, safety and security, concurrency and parallelism, and software in general… and optionally questions about SF/fan

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What to Look for in a Solid WordPress Host

Gtmetrix

We explain the key things to look for in a dependable and high-performing WordPress host. Overview GTmetrix primarily focuses on front-end performance (i.e., how well your page performs on the client-side browser), but a strong backend setup is equally essential for a high-performing website.

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Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Amazon AWS – Part 2

Percona

Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. In a previous post, we discussed Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Amazon AWS and showed how to implement EBS snapshot-based backups.

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Henry Ford Does AI

O'Reilly

Back in August , I cavalierly said that AI couldn’t design a car if it hadn’t seen one first, and I alluded to Henry Ford’s apocryphal statement “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” I’m not backing down on any of that, but the history of technology is always richer than we imagine. Daimler and Benz get credit for the first automobile, but we forget that the “ steam engine welded to a tricycle ” was invented in 1769, over a hundred years earlier.

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How to Implement Client-Side Load Balancing With Spring Cloud

DZone

It is common for microservice systems to run more than one instance of each service. This is needed to enforce resiliency. It is therefore important to distribute the load between those instances. The component that does this is the load balancer. Spring provides a Spring Cloud Load Balancer library. In this article, you will learn how to use it to implement client-side load balancing in a Spring Boot project.

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Analyze OpenTelemetry traces and log data at scale: Accelerate troubleshooting and optimize application performance

Dynatrace

Considering the latest State of Observability 2024 report, it’s evident that multicloud environments not only come with an explosion of data beyond humans’ ability to manage it. It’s increasingly difficult to ingest, manage, store, and sort through this amount of data. According to 85% of tech leaders, organizations also see a substantial rise in complexity caused by increased tool volume.

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My AMA yesterday is up on YouTube

Sutter's Mill

Boy, Jens Weller turns these things around quickly! Thanks again, Jens, for having me on your Meeting C++ Live show. I’ve put a list of the questions, with timestamped links, below… All the questions and answers, with links 00:19 What are you up to with C++ currently / what keeps you excited? 04:04 Sean Baxter has finally written up a proposal to bring borrow checking to C++, to improve safety.

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Differential Backups in MyRocks Based Distributed Databases at Uber

Uber Engineering

Learn about how the Storage team at Uber significantly reduced costs and improved speed for backups of its Petabyte-scale, MyRocks-based distributed databases by devising a Differential Backups solution.

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Open Source and Flawed Foundations

Percona

I have always been a big advocate of “Foundation”-run open source projects as being better compared to single-vendor projects, where there is a risk of a vendor unilaterally changing licenses or taking other “hostile” steps towards project users and the community and their reliance on the project’s open source nature.

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2024 Holiday Readiness Checklist (Page Speed Edition!)

Speed Curve

Delivering a great user experience throughout the holiday season is a marathon, not a sprint. Here are ten things you can do to make sure your site is fast and available every day, not just Black Friday. Your design and development teams are working hard to attract users and turn browsers into buyers, with strategies like: High-resolution images and videos Geo-targeted campaigns and content Third-party tags for audience analytics and retargeting However, all those strategies can take a toll on t

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Network Guardians: Crafting a Spring Boot-Driven Anomaly Detection System

DZone

We’re going to set out on a mind-blowing tour around network security. Upon considering the nearness and risk posed by cyber threats in this epoch, it is important to prevent the threats so that they do not cause irreversible damage within the network. This three-part article series will take you through the process of developing a network anomaly detection system using the Spring Boot framework in a robust manner.

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Reliability indicators that matter to your business: SLOs for all data types

Dynatrace

Provide an at-a-glance view of your system’s health and performance Dynatrace guides you in quickly getting the most valuable SLOs set up in just a few clicks. To provide maximum freedom in selecting the service-level indicators that matter most to your business, Dynatrace combines SLOs with the power of Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse, the central data platform with heterogeneous and contextually linked data.

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The Where's Waldo Effect in Privacy

Abhishek Tiwari

Safeguarding individual privacy inherently means data minimisation i.e. limiting the collection and disposal of data. This principle has been a cornerstone of privacy advocacy and is even enshrined in regulations like the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Upgrading Uber’s MySQL Fleet  to version 8.0

Uber Engineering

Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.

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Redis Users Want a Change

Percona

Originally published on The New Stack. Open source Valkey is emerging as a top contender for the 75% of companies concerned about Redis’ licensing change, finds Percona research. The key-value store landscape is experiencing a shake-up, as Redis’ recent licensing changes have driven users to search for alternatives.

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WordPress Updates For Website Security – A Comprehensive Guide!

Official Blog - World Web Technology

Over 40% of websites worldwide use the WordPress platform, considered the most popular CMS – Content Management System. Several reasons are associated with its widespread use: reliability and flexibility are among them. However, with the increasing demand, it attracts substantial malicious attention from hackers. Regular security updates can help you maintain your website’s stability and security.

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Kubernetes Observability: Lessons Learned From Running Kubernetes in Production

DZone

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Once Decade-Defining, Now Forging a Future in the SDLC. In recent years, observability has re-emerged as a critical aspect of DevOps and software engineering in general, driven by the growing complexity and scale of modern, cloud-native applications.

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Unlock the power of contextual log analytics

Dynatrace

Dynatrace enables various teams, such as developers, threat hunters, business analysts, and DevOps, to effortlessly consume advanced log insights within a single platform. Dynatrace Grail™ and Davis ® AI act as the foundation, eliminating the need for manual log correlation or analysis while enabling you to take proactive action. Dynatrace unified observability and security help enterprises, like our customer, BMO, save time and money , fostering collaboration across business, development, and o

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