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Air Traffic Control System Update
On the 29th of August, the UK experienced a severe air traffic fault and the incoming data had to be processed manually creating many cancellations and delays. Some newspapers talked about a ‘huge network failure’ but the main information came from NATS which is the company in charge of this system. In their statement, the crucial point is:
“Initial investigations into the problem show it relates to some of the flight data we received. Our systems, both primary and the back-ups, responded by suspending automatic processing to ensure that no incorrect safety-related information could be presented to an air traffic controller or impact the rest of the air traffic system. There are no indications that this was a cyber-attack.”
I am wondering what means “some of the flight data we received”, I hope they will provide more clarity and transparency, otherwise, how can they be trusted? In IT operations, a trustworthy company must be transparent, it is a quality we should all strive for.
https://www.nats.aero/statement/air-traffic-control-system-update/
Announcing CloudWorld on Air
Get more learning from experts, more networking with peers, and more innovations to explore when Oracle CloudWorld returns to Las Vegas on September 18–21, 2023. Designed for all Oracle customers and partners, CloudWorld is the best place to learn about Oracle solutions—including infrastructure, databases, and applications—from the people who build and use them. Don’t miss this chance to discover the insights you need to solve your most complex business challenges.
https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/
The Future of Scale-out Data Processing with HeatWave Lakehouse
HeatWave Lakehouse enables you to query data in object storage with record performance vs. Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, and Google Big Query. With HeatWave Lakehouse, you can now take advantage of HeatWave for non-MySQL workloads as well as MySQL workloads. You can get real-time analytics across data warehouses and data lakes, fully automated in-database machine learning, and transaction processing in one cloud database service. Join Oracle’s chief corporate architect Edward Screven to understand how you can benefit from HeatWave, hear about the latest innovations including Lakehouse, machine learning, multicloud, and ML-powered automation with Autopilot, and see an exciting generative AI demo.
https://reg.rf.oracle.com/flow/oracle/cwoh23/catalog/page/catalog/session/1686614339032001mWwL
https://www.mysql.com/products/mysqlheatwave/lakehouse/
Google Introduces GKE Enterprise to Help Companies Manage Complex Kubernetes Environments
Google Cloud Next '23—Opening Keynote
Many news including a GKE Enterprise (a mix of GKE and Anthos with advanced features), Duet AI, AI-optimized infrastructure, partnership with NVIDIA, and Vertex AI.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/welcome-to-google-cloud-next-23
EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced
Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) is supposed to fix the limitations of the current Linux scheduler CFS.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EEVDF-Scheduler-Linux-EO-May
https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/
The shortcomings of serverless computing
Nothing new, but this is still a reminder of the cons of serverless.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705610/the-shortcomings-of-serverless-computing.html
OpenTF announcing fork of Terraform
https://opentf.org/announcement
Go 1.21 All You Need to Know
This is a nice mind map on Miro to show the new features in Go 1.21.
https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMBkmPPQ=/
Advanced Go Concurrency
Learn how to use Go's singleflight and errgroup packages, and other important design patterns for concurrency, with real-world examples.
https://encore.dev/blog/advanced-go-concurrency
Structured Logging with slog
The new log/slog
package in Go 1.21 brings structured logging to the standard library.
fp-go a New Functional Programming library for Golang
Directly from IBM, a functional programming library, inspired from fp-ts.
Juniper Networks Releases Security Advisory for Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved
Hackers Adding More Capabilities to Open Source Malware
Hackers are evolving the open-source SapphireStealer malware to create new variants, which steal sensitive information such as corporate credentials and are being sold or rented on underground forums; these variants facilitate further cyber-attacks including ransomware and espionage.
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/hackers-adding-more-capabilities-to-open-source-malware-a-22998
Linux 6.6 Unconditionally Enables x86 CPU Microcode Loading Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-x86-microcode
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