We are announcing two vital new subsea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America. These will be the first transpacific cables through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and will increase overall transpacific capacity by 70 percent. We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet. As part of… Continue reading Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific region and North America
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SRE Weekly Issue #264
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: StackHawk and FOSSA are getting together Thursday, April 8, to show you how to automate AppSec testing with GitHub actions. Register to learn how to test your open source and proprietary code for vulns in CI/CD. https://hubs.ly/H0Ks1dy0 Articles Balancing act: the current limits of AWS network… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #264
The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 1
The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 1 Phoenix is a relational database with a SQL interface that uses HBase as its backing store. This combination allows it to leverage the flexibility and scalability of HBase, which is a distributed key-value store. Phoenix provides additional functionality on top of HBase, including SQL… Continue reading The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 1
How Facebook encodes your videos
People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — means optimizing not only when and how our video codecs compress and decompress videos for viewing, but also which codecs are used… Continue reading How Facebook encodes your videos
The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 2
The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 2 In the first part of this blog, we described a solution for strongly consistent immutable secondary indexes. We extend this solution for mutable indexes here. By doing so, we provide a general solution for strongly consistent global secondary indexes. Mutable Indexes The mutable tables… Continue reading The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 2
SRE Weekly Issue #265
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Join StackHawk and WhiteSource tomorrow morning to learn about automated security testing in the DevOps pipeline. With automated dynamic testing and software composition analysis, you can be sure you’re shipping secure APIs and applications. Grab your spot: http://sthwk.com/stackhawk-whitesource Articles Insights into a Product SRE team at… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #265
SRE Weekly Issue #266
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Are you a ZAP user looking to automate your security testing? Make sure to tune in to ZAPCon After Hours on Tuesday at 8 am PT to see how you can use Jenkins and Zest scripts to automate ZAP. http://sthwk.com/zapcon-ah Articles Airplane takes off a metric… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #266
Caching with the Salesforce Commerce SDK
Co-written by Brian Redmond Every e-commerce application is going to need caching. For some of our customers, millions of shoppers may look at the same product information and, if you have to request that information from the service every time, your application will not scale. This is why we built the Commerce SDK with caching as… Continue reading Caching with the Salesforce Commerce SDK
SRE Weekly Issue #267
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Serverless doesn’t mean secure. Use modern security testing tools to assess serverless applications for vulnerabilities during development. http://sthwk.com/serverless Articles SRE Case Study: Mysterious Traffic Imbalance Yet more proof that DNS behavior varies way more than is obvious at first glance. Who the heck thought longest common… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #267
Reverse debugging at scale
Say you receive an email notification that a service is crashing just after your last code change deploys. The crash happens in only 0.1 percent of the servers where it runs. But you’re at a large-scale company, so 0.1 percent equals thousands of servers — and this issue is going to be hard to reproduce. Several… Continue reading Reverse debugging at scale