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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The NIL era of college athletics is getting another big twist, this time courtesy of Title IX. The Department of Education determined in a memo that Title IX applies to name, image, and likeness (NIL) payments to college athletes. Title IX is a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education […]
UK-based music licensing body PPL paid out GBP £45.3 million (approx. $57 million at current exchange rates) to over 137,000 performers and recording rightsholders in the fourth quarter of 2024. The latest figure marks a 7%, or GBP £3.4 million, decrease from £48.7 million paid in Q4 2023, which marked the highest Q4 payment in […]
19 min read · Nov 12, 2024 By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built […]
Protect your distributed database from disasters with these key strategies: Create a solid recovery plan Use multiple protection layers (backups, high availability, hybrid solutions) Stay current with emerging tech (AI, blockchain, quantum computing) Test your plan regularly Follow industry regulations Quick overview of essential concepts: Term Definition Disaster Recovery (DR) Getting database systems back up […]
The App Review Guidelines have been revised to add iPadOS to Notarization. Starting September 16: Users in the EU can download iPadOS apps on the App Store and through alternative distribution. As mentioned in May, if you have entered into the Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU, iPadOS first annual installs will begin to accrue […]
Table of content Introduction Understanding the CAP Attributesa. Consistencyb. Availabilityc. Partition Tolerance The CAP Trade-offsa. Consistency and Availability (CA)b. Consistency and Partition Tolerance (CP)c. Availability and Partition Tolerance (AP) Real-World Examples of CAP Trade-offsa. CA Systems: Relational Databasesi. MySQLii. PostgreSQLb. CP Systems: Distributed Databasesi. Apache ZooKeeperii. Google’s Bigtablec. AP Systems: NoSQL Databasesi. Apache Cassandraii. Amazon’s […]