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Don’t just run DNS, run it FAST
Ariel Pisetzky | 03 Nov 2020 | System
By Ariel Pisetzky and Tarek Shama Taken for Granted Taken for granted. That’s the way most users and Read More...
If you fall, fall right – a tale of SRE critical incident management
Ariel Pisetzky | 31 Oct 2020 | Culture
If you fall, fall right – a tale of SRE critical incident management By Yehuda Levi, Tal Valani, Read More...
Running a Post Mortem Following “The Moment”
Ariel Pisetzky | 17 Aug 2020 | Culture
Failure. I need to talk about failure, and not any failure, my failure. I need to share it Read More...
That Moment
Ariel Pisetzky | 12 Aug 2020 | Culture
That Moment So, the firefighters are in your data center, there is no electricity, and the pager is Read More...
Stop waking up at night over MySQL replication
Ariel Pisetzky | 26 May 2020 | Big Data
MySQL Slave Replication Optimization Written by Yossi Kalif & Ariel Pisetzky MySQL in Taboola So you love Read More...
Analog Clocks with NTP
Chris Liebman | 21 Aug 2019 | System
Synchronized Clocks: Someone has to be blamed… I blame Ariel. He took one look at the five Read More...
Video campaigns budget pacer
Ziv Singer | 04 Aug 2019 | Java
As a content discovery product, we need to be able to pace the campaign through its life on Read More...
Stop reading, start talking. A new way to share knowledge.
Dotan Laks | 21 Nov 2018 | System
Knowledge sharing is critical for every company that wants to grow and improve. The bigger the company – Read More...
How Azure Data Explorer Helped Us Make Sense of 1M Log Lines per Second
Ariel Pisetzky | 07 Nov 2018 | System
As VP of IT at Taboola, my teams and I are overwhelmed with logs, pinned down by the Read More...
Calculating Git Version
Yuri Goikhman | 26 Dec 2017 | System
Hello Git user. In this blog post I will discuss a technique for a unique version calculation for Read More...
Scaling Out Jenkins Based CI with Docker and Nomad
Anton Weiss | 18 Oct 2017 | System
The existing CI processes in Taboola are quite demanding – a full product build includes 150 maven modules Read More...
Leveraging Vertica Performance by Reducing CPU System Calls
Bentzi Mor | 25 Jun 2017 | System
What is the connection between kernel system calls and database performance, and how can we improve performance by Read More...
Choosing a synthetic monitoring solution that will not fail you when you need it – based on a true story.
Ariel Pisetzky | 18 Jun 2017 | System
Synthetic monitoring is something that we all do. It’s almost something that you don’t think about. You set Read More...