Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. Rising consumer expectations for transparency and control over their data, combined with increasing data volumes, contribute to the importance of swift and efficient management of privacy rights requests. “By 2026, fines due to mismanagement of subject rights will have increased tenfold from 2022 to total over $1 billion.” [1] –Gartner

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Tuning Scalability Efficiency Processing 132

Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage.

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Open Source Cache Efficiency Technology 100

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed cons

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Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Learn how Uber improved mobile testing reliability, and increased productivity for thousands of engineers, using machine learning to create DragonCrawl, a highly stable and low-maintenance testing system.

Mobile 81

Mobile Testing Engineering Systems 81

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

AI is top of mind for security teams across every industry. As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. According to McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 report, 40% of respondents said their organizations plan to increase their overall AI investment because of advancements in generative AI.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 130

Percona

MAY 1, 2024

MySQL 8.4 has now been officially released, and this is a quick review of what is in the release notes. This is momentous as it is designated a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. Various 8.0 releases introduced material changes that impacted speed and stability, causing hair-pulling and swearing among those affected.

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Speed Design 93

Percona Community

APRIL 30, 2024

ProxySQL is an SQL aware proxy, which gives DBA’s fine grained control over clients’ access to the MySQL cluster. A key part of our DBA team’s process in testing and preparing for major MySQL version upgrades is comparing query plans using ProxySQL query mirroring. This feature allows us to mirror queries to another cluster / host, by configuring query rules.

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Testing Performance Processing 68

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Real-time streaming needs real-time analytics As enterprises move their workloads to cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, the complexity of observing their workloads increases. Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data.

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Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. PgBouncer is one of the most popular external connection poolers for PostgreSQL. It is thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t have built-in authentication features like LDAP, which is essential for many enterprises.

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Development 93

Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

Our newest release continues our theme of making your RUM data even more actionable. In addition to advanced settings, navigation types, and page attributes , we've just released more diagnostic detail for the latest flavor in Core Web Vitals: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This post covers: Element attribution for INP A breakdown of where time is spent within INP, leveraging subparts How to use this information to find and fix INP issues A look ahead at RUM diagnostics at SpeedCurve How quick

Google 67

Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 67

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Innovatively scaling its chat channel, Uber’s Customer Obsession Team enhanced global support by transitioning 36% of contact volume to chat, leveraging a new architecture that slashed error rates from 46% to 0.45%, showcasing a significant leap in efficiency and customer satisfaction.

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Scalability Innovation Architecture Efficiency 73

Percona Community

MAY 1, 2024

Kubernetes continues evolving, and the complexity of deploying and managing databases within the ecosystem is a topic of considerable discussion and importance these days. This article summarizes a detailed discussion between Piotr Szczepaniak and Diogo Recharte, who offer insights and live demonstrations to simplify database operations on Kubernetes with a new technology for cloud-native applications: Percona Everest.

Database 58

Database Cloud Technology Technology 58

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2024

Interest rates have been climbing for two years now. The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday with the headline the days of ultra low interest rates are over. Tech will have to adjust. It’s going to be painful. When capital is expensive, we measure investments against the hurdle rate: the rate of return an investment must satisfy to exceed to be a demonstrably good use of capital.

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Innovation Software Software Performance 40

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Migrating money data with peace of mind. Learn how Uber moved its Money related data spanning trillion of rows & petabytes in size flawlessly.

Engineering 63

Engineering 63

Percona Community

APRIL 28, 2024

At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source form, report back on any issues or bugs you might encounter along the way. We constantly update our bug reports and monitor other boards to ensure we have the latest information, but we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep trac

Open Source 58

Open Source Database Monitoring 58

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Want to improve the reliability of your Presto cluster with just a few lines of code? Come read how we reduced errors by 90% through improving garbage collection.

Tuning 54

Tuning Code 54

Percona Community

APRIL 29, 2024

Percona software releases and updates April 17 - April 30, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

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Open Source Scalability Database Software 52

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

With the introduction of Model Excellence Scores at Uber, we’re setting a new standard for measuring, monitoring, and maintaining ML model quality–read how this innovative approach aims to enhance ML governance and provide clearer insights.

Government 49

Government Systems Innovation Monitoring 49

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Accelerating Tomorrow: How Uber Turbocharges AI/ML Frontiers.

Infrastructure 75

Infrastructure 75

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital world, preventing downtime and disruptions is crucial. Learn how uVitals is helping to reduce the time to detect anomalies from days to hours, improving the signal-to-noise ratio by up to 95% at Uber scale.

Systems 40

Systems 40

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Want to effectively mitigate fraud without compromising your user experience? Learn how we secured the Uber app with risk challenges, like penny drop verification—just one of many employed to verify Uber users making credit or debit card payments.

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Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Overwhelmed with network security events? Learn how Uber’s Cyber Defense team programmatically manages network IDS rulesets, augments alerts for correlation, and open-sourced the code they use to do it.

Network 40

Network Open Source Code 40

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Learn about how Uber presents a consistent view of distributed financial data across earners, spenders, and merchants powered by indexes in Uber’s homegrown ledger-style database, LedgerStore.

Database 40

Database 40

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Learn how Uber unifies its marketplace and brand, and reliably optimizes marketing strategy expenditures with Jupiter: Uber’s Performance Marketing Ingestion Platform.

Strategy 40

Strategy Performance 40

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Get behind-the-scenes access to Uber’s financial finesse. Explore Uber’s commitment to flawless financials with data-driven excellence.

Strategy 40

Strategy Testing Engineering 40

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Learn about how Uber changed it’s RPC load balancing within Service Mesh to mitigate hardware heterogeneity.

Hardware 40

Hardware 40