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By Gim Mahasintunan on behalf of Data Platform Engineering.

Simple Design of Communication Service

StatsD is a key unifying protocol and set of tools for collecting application metrics and gaining visibility into the performance of applications. Etsy created StatsD in 2011 as a protocol for emitting application metrics. Soon after, the StatsD server was developed as a tool for receiving StatsD line protocol metrics and subsequently aggregating them. While…

Part 1 offers a comprehensive list of practices that can be used to understand and assess an organization’s continuous testing capabilities.

Blockchain is puny.

Nine years after Microsoft shook things up with Windows 8, it seems to be at a place where it can tackle fresh challenges and still play to its strengths.

The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.

A technical yet demystifying dive into networking tech you can’t avoid

Recently, GitHub added a small indicator that shows details about projects, including what programming languages a project uses. Before this, it was hard for new contributors to know this type of information about the projects they were interested in.

Not so very long ago, distributed computing meant clustering together a bunch of cheap X86 servers and equipping them with some form of middleware that

Do promised AIOps benefits actually translate to the real world? According to a recent survey of nearly 300 SREs, not so much.

Errors are preventable. But preventing errors requires an investment. Before committing to an error-free production environment, it’s worth calculating the cost. A typo on this blog is relati…

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

The I2C page for the Adafruit Trinkey QT2040 guide has the image (above) which uses the terms controller and peripheral, the page also explains the nomenclature, and references the previous naming …

Your entire stack + more…to go

Current custom AI hardware devices are built around super-efficient, high performance matrix multiplication. This category of accelerators includes the

In Part 1 of "The Part of the Plane You Never Get to See," we showed you the hidden rest areas that airplane designers have secreted within various fuselages. Here in Part 2, Swedish airline pilot Bjorn (whose YouTube profile page reads "#bjorntofly") takes us to more hidden

In terms of oh shit moments, this had to be a doozy for the train engineer. Last month nineteen cars on a 90-car train derailed in Montana. Some of those freight cars were carrying 737 fuselages on their way to Boeing, and six of them fell off, with three of...

Use time bound leases for cluster nodes to coordinate their activities.

Tired developers get through the day; Well rested developers seize the day

Normally, Ruckstack is used to package and connect your services, databases, etc. into a single installable for on-site customers. But, that same packaging logic can also be used to collect up everything you need for your development environment installations. Ask yourself this: What does it take for a new developer to start working on a…

Having been writing about Open RAN for a while , I thought it was important to make simple beginners tutorials for O-RAN. As my full time jo...

The number of services cloud providers have begun to offer over the past couple of years has exploded, potentially exposing an exponentially larger number of microservices to vulnerabilities that support these services across multiple cloud and on-premises environments. In this, The New Stack Makers podcast, TJ (Tsion) Gonen, head of cloud security for security provider…

Whenever something is not working, you change it. Sometimes, you glue things together to create some sort of synergy and then you pull them apart to get

Data’s value continues to increase as organizations look to leverage its value by extracting insights for business efficiencies and competitive advantage. Along with the increase in data value, data-oriented regulations continue to proliferate with greater complexity making availability and reliability of data critical. Data management has been a core component to achieving insights for data-driven…

Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?

If you've formatted a hard drive or USB thumb drive, you might have seen the "Allocation Unit Size" setting. What is this, and can you change it?

Once upon a time, Jamie Zawinski said,