
After migrating Spark pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service, two infrastructure settings interacted destructively: spark.kubernetes.local.dirs.tmpfs=true backed shuffle spill with RAM instead of disk, and a hard podAffinity rule forced all…


OpenTelemetry has introduced a new "Blueprints" initiative aimed at reducing the growing complexity of deploying and operating observability systems at scale. By Craig Risi
LivePerson reduced Logstash processing cost by over 50% by benchmarking GCP machine types and switching to AMD Milan-based instances while finding that Kafka compression codec selection independently drives meaningful throughput gains.
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