Infoq.com Website Review

facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development kavya joshi explores when and why locks affect performance, delves into go’s lock implementation as a case study, and discusses john chapin explains how to use serverless technologies and an infrastructure-as-code approach to architect, build, and operate large-scale systems that are resilient to vendor failures, even while taking advantage of fully managed vendor services and platforms. peter mattis talks about how co*kroach labs addressed the complexity of distributed databases with co*kroachdb. he gives a tour of co*kroachdb’s internals, covering the usage of raft for consensus, the challenges of data distribution, distributed transactions, distributed sql execution, and distributed sql optimizations. jean barmash and khadija ali explain the nature of the relationship, key principles of effective collaboration, the roles and responsibilities of engineering lead, product manager, and design lead. they go over some examples of conflict between the roles, a few actual situations of tensions they experienced, and how they ultimately became an effective partnership. yuri shkuro presents a methodology that uses data mining to learn the typical behavior of the system from mas*ive amounts of distributed traces, compares it with pathological behavior during outages, and uses complexity reduction and intuitive visualizations to guide the user towards actionable insights about the root cause of the outages.. microsoft presents static typescript, a fast subset of typescript targeting embedded devices. microsoft announces general availability of azure active directory based access control for service. thomas graf on cilium, the 1.6 release, ebpf security, & the road ahead. pat kua on technical leadership, cultivating culture, and career growth. google releases a managed service for microsoft active directory (ad) in beta. google introduces cloud storage connector for hadoop big data workloads.