Continuous delivery (CD) platforms help DevOps teams manage software releases in short cycles, ensuring they are delivered safely, reliably and quickly. The goal is to reduce the costs, time and associated risks connected to building, testing and delivering changes by
The router market is largely controlled by the big vendors like Cisco and Juniper that spend a lot of time and money developing a rich feature set, mainly routing protocols. However, there are also multiple open-source BGP routing stacks in
Apache Kafka, the open source distributed streaming platform, has become increasingly popular in the DevOps community, experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity, particularly within the developer and engineer community, over the last seven years. It was initially released in 2011.
Netflix recently released details of how it enables multi-cloud continuous delivery via the Spinnaker platform. The streaming giant uses it to deploy more than 95% of its infrastructure in AWS, comprised of hundreds of microservices and thousands of daily deployments.
In a recent Netflix blog by Chaitanya Ekanadham, Manager, Analytics and Data Science, Ekanadham explained some of the technical challenges the company faces and why machine learning and statistical models are helping them to overcome these challenges. Netflix currently has over
Apache just announced Apache Spark 2.3. It is the fourth release in the 2.x line. It’s not just the point release you might expect with a few minor upgrades and improvements; instead, it ships with over 1,000 changes from the
Netflix recently introduced its new Dynamic Optimizer, which employs AI techniques to analyse each individual frame of a video in order to compress it as much as possible without diminishing the image quality. This new encoding method reduces the amount
According to a new survey from data Artisans interviewing Apache Flink users, the majority of surveyed businesses are planning on deploying more applications powered by Apache Flink software in the year ahead. Apache Flink is an open-source stream processing framework
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that Akamai has brought on Morgan Stanley to conduct a strategic review to evaluate its options, including a recommendation for a potential sale. Last month, Elliott Management disclosed it had acquired 6.5 percent of Akamai shares.
At the start of August, Fastly announced that it had added a collection of new points of presence (PoPs) to its global network. They now have 40 points of presence globally, most recently adding a new state-of-the-art facility in Rio
Machine Learning (ML) is being ever more employed by business in an increasingly widening collection of commercial applications. There are five emerging giants of ML today: Netflix, Google, Twitter, Facebook and Uber. Netflix recently hosted a Machine Learning Platform meetup
ZTE Reports Massive H1 Profit Gains Buoyed By Chinese 4G Expansion Chinese telco equipment manufacturer ZTE has reported sizeable profit increases in the first half of 2016, booking 9.3% gains in profit to $270 million and a 4.1% increase in
Comcast Embraces Netflix in Home Cable Set-Top Box Bowing to the might and popularity of Netflix, Comcast has made an extraordinary concession and agreed to allow its customers to view Netflix through its X1 home cable box. The new cable
Over the last eight years, the video streaming market has changed for the better… at least for some. In particular, media companies that deliver video to the masses have benefited because they have more choices at lower price points. For
Is DIY An Emerging Trend Is the Do-it-Yourself model the next big trend, a game changer and disruptor of legacy business models? Or is it a blip on the radar and anomaly. Before we answer, lets agree that DIY is
