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Our new ingestion framework can sort time series data before writing to disk. Here's how we built it and how it compares to InfluxDB, ClickHouse, and TimescaleDB.

Resolutely refusing to accept a conventional understanding is a statement of certainty. That’s different from honest skepticism. The skeptic offers an open mind and is clear about what would …

Improving observability for developers is the focus of this episode of The New Stack podcast. The featured guests were Zain Asgar, who is general manager of the open source Pixie Kubernetes monitoring tool; Roopak Venkatakrishnan, engineering manager for Bolt, an e-commerce retailer tool; Ihor Dvoretskyi, developer advocate for the and Christine Wang, senior solutions engineer,…

You can’t afford to have a new feature, update, or bug fix bring you two steps forward and three steps back. The new functionality must work flawlessly — and it can’t disrupt the pre-existing functionality that users have come to rely on. This is why you need continuous performance testing. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy…

Enterprise companies routinely fall into a cycle of relying on engineers to build a user-facing product only to become frustrated when the end users are unhappy with the product and refuse to use it. By prioritizing DevOps and infrastructure at the very beginning of the product cycle, your team can ensure that as more and…

The role of the software engineer evolves every few years. A term will catch hold and inspire the imaginations of engineers who want to be it, managers who want to have it and recruiters who need to find it. Some are fads — a flashing moment. Others represent a paradigm shift happening in our industry.…

There are many reasons why Linux is such a popular platform for processing Internet of Things (IoT) edge applications. A major one is transparency. Linux security capabilities are built on open source projects, giving users a transparent view of security risks and threats and enables them to apply fixes quickly with security module patches or kernel-level updates. Another Linux advantage is that developers can choose from various programming languages to develop, test, and run device communications over various networking protocols—other than HTTP(s)—when developing IoT edge applications.

Enterprises are inundated with dashboards and still struggle to make effective decisions with the information in front of them.

Introduction In a world that surrounds us with information at all times, data visualization is increasingly more popular, as a tool to help us make…

Common Interval Support in Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (RFC )

The discussion in the comments to my LAG versus ECMP post took a totally unexpected turn when someone mentioned BFD failure detection over port channels (link aggregation groups – LAGs). What’s the big deal?

Minh Ha left a lengthy comment to my There’s No Recipe for Success blog post, adding an interesting perspective of someone who had to work really hard to overcome coming from a third-world country. Ivan, I happened to read “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” recently so I can attest that it does provide some valuable advices on how to do things well. Some of the overarching themes are stay focused and cut off unnecessary noise/drain the shallow. The author also suggests removing your social media account if you can’t see how it add values to your work/business, as social media can create attention disorder, seen in many young kids these days.

I wonder if this kind of result might apply to more than just disasters: People in disaster and emergency situations (e.g., building fires) tend to adhere to the social obligations and expectations that are embedded in their preexisting roles and relationships. Accordingly, people survive or perish in groups—specifically, alongside those to whom they were connected […]

Airports have vast swaths of empty land and rooftops. But it’s not so easy as just covering everything with solar panels.

A ransomware attack is ‘very much like a hostage negotiation situation’

Jargon is intentionally offputting, and lingo reminds us how connected we are. They might look similar, but the intent is what matters. Jargon is a place to hide, a chance to show off, a way to dis…

Explore How to Scale your relational databases

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Syslog. You’ve probably heard about that, especially if you are into monitoring or security. Syslog is perceived to be the common, unified way that systems can send logs to otherContinue reading

HTTP/3, or HTTP over QUIC, brings many new performance features to HTTP

Fried crickets on the school menu, milk made from fly larvae and mealworm bolognese for dinner? These are the environmentally friendly meals we can look forward to. Bon appetit!

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