PingCAP CEO Max Liu discusses PingCAPs innovative TiDB database and cloud technologies for OLTP + OLAP, and PingCAP’s commitment to open source going back more than seven years. Max shares some exciting news about the very first HTAP Summit, coming to the bay area soon. The video is below followed by a transcript of the […]
0 CommentsAt the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit conference, Cisco announced it developed an 800-gigabit switch that consumes significantly less power than the previous generation of its networking equipment. Thomas Scheibe, vice president of product management for cloud networking for Cisco’s Nexus and ACI product line, said the throughput provided by the latest 7-nanometer iteration […]
0 CommentsLast issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In this issue, I will expand on what improved visibility means and present two case studies that illustrate a recent antipattern that I’ve noticed […]
0 CommentsIdeally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments. Versioning can get out of hand without consistent upgrades and […]
0 CommentsSonatype this week published a State of the Software Supply Chain Report that found a 633% year-over-year increase in malicious attacks aimed at open source software residing in public repositories. In addition, Sonatype launched a Sonatype Safety Rating system that employs machine learning algorithms and other metrics to identify the most secure open source components […]
0 CommentsAt its Dash 2022 conference, Datadog announced today it is extending the reach of its namesake cloud-delivered monitoring and observability platform to address continuous testing, application security and cost management. In addition, Datadog has made available in beta a Data Streams Monitoring tool that makes it simpler to identify upstream issues that are likely to […]
0 CommentsWalking into an unfamiliar operations center some time ago, I immediately noticed database error alerts racing down the primary monitor faster than a Matrix screensaver morphs letters. Strangely, no one seemed particularly excited about it. The situation was a head-turner for me, coming as I did from the “everything must balance” banking world. A senior […]
0 CommentsMulti-cloud environments can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there are clear benefits to using whatever cloud or tool is best for your particular needs, regardless of vendor – in theory. In practice, however, the more choices you have, the more complex and expensive your environment becomes. In fact, Andreessen Horowitz postulates that […]
0 CommentsWhen I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those unfamiliar, D&D has many uses of the word level—character level, caster level, spell level, dungeon level and, increasingly, as time went on, monster […]
0 CommentsAt its CloudWorld event, Oracle today announced it will enable IT teams to deploy the same platform it uses to independently deliver cloud services anywhere they see fit. Leo Leung, vice president of products and strategy for Oracle, said an Oracle Alloy offering will enable organizations to provide a full set of cloud services they […]
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