Date started current role: October 2019
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Sameer Tiwari is CTO of infrastructure at MariaDB and leads the development of SkySQL, MariaDB’s database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform. Prior to MariaDB, Tiwari was at Salesforce, where he worked on modernising the Salesforce cloud architecture to move thousands of on-prem machines to the cloud. He also architected a distributed, scale-out platform for high-speed transactional workloads to replace a proprietary database. In earlier roles, Tiwari served as a storage architect at Pivotal and a platform architect at Yahoo.
What was your first job? My first job was straight out of college. I started working at Unisys on their MainFrame computers, writing code to debug OS components that were being re-written as a move from 16 to 32-bit architecture. At the time, the move to a 32-bit architecture was a quantum leap for computing, so it was exciting to be a part of it in the early days of my career.
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Google Cloud Infrastructure Components Incident #20013
Google Cloud services are experiencing issues and we have an other update at 5:30 PDT Incident began at
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The following is a correction to the previously posted ISSUE SUMMARY, which after further research we determined needed an amendment. All services that require sign-in via a Google Account were affected with varying impact. Some operations with Cloud service accounts experienced elevated error rates on re
Google has a better track record but the same issue: when authentication breaks, everything breaks
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Google has posted more details about its 50 minute outage yesterday, though promising a full incident report to follow. It was authentication that broke, reminiscent of Microsoft s September cloud outage caused by an Azure Active Directory failure.
In an update to its Cloud Status dashboard, Google said that: The root cause was an issue in our automated quota management system which reduced capacity for Google s central identity management system, causing it to return errors globally. As a result, we couldn t verify that user requests were authenticated and served errors to our users.
By Arbab Ahmed and Bruno Deszczynski
Black Friday and Cyber Monday or as we like to call it, BFCM is one of the largest sales events of the year. It’s also one of the most important moments for Shopify and our merchants. To put it into perspective, this year our merchants across more than 175 countries sold a record breaking $5.1+ billion over the sales weekend.
That’s a lot of sales. That’s a lot of data, too.
This BFCM, the Shopify data platform saw an average throughput increase of 150 percent. Our mission as the Shopify Data Platform Engineering (DPE) team is to ensure that our merchants, partners, and internal teams have access to data quickly and reliably. It shouldn’t matter if a merchant made one sale per hour or a million; they need access to the most relevant and important information about their business, without interruption. While this is a must all year round, the stakes are raised during BFCM.
Just more than a year ago, Microsoft Azure expanded its hybrid offerings with the public preview of Azure Arc, a set of technologies that brings Azure’s cloud management capabilities and services to virtually any environment.
Today, the cloud provider has more than 1,000 customers using Azure Arc, which extends an organization’s control plane to manage servers and Kubernetes clusters across on premises, multi-cloud and multi-edge, with governance from Azure.
“What we want to do is really enable customers to use Azure wherever they want it, even on their own infrastructure,” said Arpan Shah, the general manager who leads Microsoft’s product marketing for Azure infrastructure. “We’re seeing some really good adoption, and they’re using it for different use cases. And now that it’s generally available, we expect a lot more momentum, a lot of customers to begin using it in their production environments.”