In our current cloud native world, almost everyone knows of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). After Ben Treynor Sloss founded the first SRE team at Google in 2003, SRE has become more and more important to companies and IT markets to maintain desired reliability in IT solutions/applications. SRE was adopted across…

Going into 2022, we’ve seen many discussions, blogs, and papers on data, with topics from data storage to analytics, data fabric to data mesh, data transformation (ETL/ELT/reverseETL) to data lineage, static data catalog to dynamic, active metadata, and company strategies, operations and management. Even with this breadth of information available…

At the end of each year, Gartner publishes what they think are the top strategic technology trends for the next year. This link contains the twelve strategic technology trends for year 2022, with their concepts and deep discussions: Data fabric Cybersecurity mesh Privacy-enhancing computation Cloud-native platforms Composable applications Decision intelligence …

General integration approach 1.0 (Part 2) Quick Recap Part 1 of this post has covered following steps of Open Data for Industries and Cloud Pak for Data service integration: STEP 1: Cloud Pak for Data Analytics Project and Notebook set up STEP 2: Data refinery and cleansing STEP 3: Data Ingestion to IBM Open Data for Industries instance …

General integration approach 1.0 (Part 1) IBM Open Data for Industries is an enterprise-grade platform based on the OSDU (Open Subsurface Data Universe) data foundation. It runs as an IBM Cloud Pak for Data cartridge to: provide scalability, security, and flexibility. bring capability to integrate with other Cloud Pak for Data services seamlessly, including Watson Studio…

Resource Consumption Guardrails The below scenario happened several times when I was a IBM Cloud Pak for Data SRE Architect: An engineer from the IBM Cloud Pak for Data Client Experience team contacted me and asked me to join a customer session to help debugging a Cloud Pak for Data functional stability issue…

A real service backup and restore solution It was the third meeting I had within a week — a customer who use Cloud Pak for Data wanted to have a backup and restore solution to meet their business requests. …

How IBM Cloud Pak for Data keeps its quality and reliability — IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a comprehensive Data and AI platform that can deployed on any cloud or on premises. SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) was originally developed at Google to maintain service site reliability and reduce human detectable disruption to a desired objective (Service-Level Objective — SLO). It plays…

Backup& restore versus Export& import: comparisons and differences of these two solutions A customer using IBM Cloud Pak for Data wanted to upgrade its release from v2.5.0 to v3.0.1. After carefully planning, they backed up the volumes following the Cloud Pak for Data backup&restore documentation and then ran v2.5.0 to…