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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Henrik Warne

What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

You diligently back up critical servers to your on-site appliance or to the cloud, but when an incident happens and you need it the most, the backup recovery fails. . Failing to align backup plans with specific restore expectations can have devastating consequences. . It is a scenario that every IT team fears.

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Avoiding Last-Mile Challenges for Remote Workers

CIO

This needs to be a multidimensional review: Computational requirements Storage requirements (local, remote, and backup) Voice communication requirements Video communication requirements Security requirements Special access requirements (e.g. cellular, air-gapped systems, etc.) In other cases they can be used as a backup.

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Keeping the lights on while leaving the cloud

David Heinemeier Hansson

In 2023, we moved seven major applications out of the cloud. But it wasn’t just HEY that got the diligent ops treatment. Every single major application we run had a minimum of 99.99% uptime in 2023! It’s been running on our own hardware for years, and now for the second year in row had an almost unbelievable uptime of 100%.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now. While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems.

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Why Companies Are Moving Their Analytics to AWS Cloud

Datavail

The advantages of moving analytics to AWS Cloud include: Lower IT costs: Cloud migrations save businesses the costs of on-premises hardware, software licenses, and ongoing support and maintenance. The AWS Auto Scaling feature lets you define rules to automatically adjust your capacity, so the system never goes down due to heavy demand.

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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

CIO

“We provide scalable ICT services in accordance with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud computing reference architecture for business applications,” says Jaap Jansma, manager at ODC-Noord. Outside air is also used to cool the data center—radically reducing the need for traditional air conditioning systems.