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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Henrik Warne

There are many ways this can happen: garbage collection, synchronous disk access that is not obvious from the code (Java classloader lazily loading a class file), operating system swapping to disk (paging) etc. MapReduce jobs read and write files on a distributed file system. Here are a few of my favorites.

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Solving The Von Neumann Bottleneck With FPGAs

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

It can be upgraded easily with a new firmware image in the same fashion as for switches or routers today. For us, it’s not just about a powerful hardware platform or the versatile Silicon file system; it’s about a unified system design that forms the foundation of the Hitachi storage solution.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

In the next level down, they can be mapped to the underlying broker infrastructure metrics, such as consumer lag, throughput per topic and partition hotspots, in addition to operating system metrics like CPU, network I/O, disk I/O, load average, etc. Unlike batch systems, event streaming applications continuously process data.

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NoSQL is really more a movement than a technology —one that’s devoted to expanding the number of storage options for system designers. Linux has long been the most widely used server operating system, and it’s not ceding that top spot soon. Solid knowledge of Linux is essential for anyone working in operations today.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Trendy, fashionable things are often a flash in the pan, forgotten or regretted a year or two later (like Pet Rocks or Chia Pets ). New frameworks appear every day (literally), and our corporate clients won’t suddenly tell their staff to reimplement the ecommerce site just because last year’s hot framework is no longer fashionable.