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System Initiative Unveils Expansion with Real-Time Multi-Cloud Discovery and Automation
System Initiative recently announced a major set of new capabilities designed to give engineering organizations instant, real-time visibility and AI-driven control across any cloud platform or API.
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Airbnb Adds Adaptive Traffic Control to Manage Key Value Store Spikes
Airbnb upgraded Mussel, its multi-tenant key-value store, replacing static per-client rate limits with an adaptive, resource-aware traffic control system. The redesign ensures resilience during traffic spikes, protects critical workflows, and maintains fair usage across thousands of tenants while scaling efficiently.
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Monzo’s Real-Time Fraud Detection Architecture with BigQuery and Microservices
Monzo has redesigned its fraud prevention platform to detect scams in real time, handle growing payment volumes, and deploy new controls rapidly. Explore the bank’s modular control architecture, feature computation pipeline, and observability using BigQuery for accurate, low-latency fraud detection.
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Inside Uber’s Query Architecture: Simplifying Layers and Improving Observability
Uber rebuilt its Apache Pinot query architecture, replacing the Presto-based Neutrino system with a lightweight proxy called Cellar and Pinot’s Multi-Stage Engine Lite Mode. The redesign simplifies SQL execution, improves resource management, and ensures predictable performance for large-scale analytics workloads.
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LinkedIn Re-Architects Edge-Building System to Support Diverse Inference Workflows
LinkedIn has detailed its re-architected edge-building system, an evolution designed to support diverse inference workflows for delivering fresher and more personalized recommendations to members worldwide. The new architecture addresses growing demands for real-time scalability, cost efficiency, and flexibility across its global platform.
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The Linux Kernel to Support Real-Time Scheduling out-of-the-Box
Linux 6.12 will officially include support for real-time processing in its mainline thanks to a PR that enables PREEMPT_RT on all supported architectures. While aimed at applications requiring deterministic time guarantees, like avionics, robotics, automotive, and communications, it could bring improvements to user experience on the desktop, too.
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Real-Time Data Streaming Capabilities with AppSync Integration in Amazon EventBridge Event Bus
AWS recently announced that Amazon EventBridge Event Bus supports AWS AppSync as an Event Bus's target, enabling developers to stream real-time updates such as sports scores from their applications to frontend applications, including mobile and desktop.
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Microsoft Open-Sources ThreadX and the Azure RTOS Development Suite
Microsoft contributed Azure RTOS, including real-time OS ThreadX, to the Eclipse Foundation and made it available under the MIT license.
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Instacart Creates a Self-Serve Apache Flink Platform on Kubernetes
Instacart moved their Apache Flink workloads from AWS EMR to Kubernetes to meet the high demand for data processing use cases using Flink within the organization, as using EMR became problematic for many teams with different requirements. As a result, they made the platform easier to use and reduced their operational and infrastructure costs.
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Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub
Recently Microsoft announced a preview of Azure Web PubSub, a new service for building real-time web applications. Azure Web PubSub is a fully-managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.
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Confluent Releases KSQL, a Distributed Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka
Confluent released KSQL: interactive, distributed streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL supports stream processing operations like aggregations, joins, windowing, and sessionization on topics in Apache Kafka. Confluent announced the open source streaming SQL engine at the recent Kafka Summit conference.
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RethinkDB Has Ported Their Database to Windows
RethinkDB has launched a Windows port of their database. This version of RethinkDB took a year of development, runs on Windows 64-bit and it is currently in beta.
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Hortonworks Addresses the IoAT with DataFlow Based on NiFi
Hortonworks has quietly made available the DataFlow platform which is based on Apache NiFi and attempts to solve the processing needs of the IoAT.
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Twitter Has Replaced Storm with Heron
Twitter has replaced Storm with Heron which provides up to 14 times more throughput and up to 10 times less latency on a word count topology, and helped them reduce the needed hardware to a third.
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ORTC and the Future of WebRTC
The first stable ORTC (Object RTC) specification is out. The questions is how is it going to impact WebRTC?