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The Verge Tech

Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games

The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it's no Steam Deck. Acer says it's a "streaming-first handheld and companion device," like a PlayStation Portal for your PC. Announced ahead of Computex on Friday, it's launching in Q4 2026 with a 7-inch (1920 x 1200) display, Wi-Fi 6, just 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 8GB of eMMC storage. That's technically not even enough RAM to run Stardew Valley, but the Blaze Link isn't meant for playing games locally. Logitech launched a similar handheld a few y

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DZone

Implementing Observability in Distributed Systems Using OpenTelemetry

Modern distributed systems demand observability, the ability to understand internal states from external outputs. Observability is achieved by collecting traces, logs, and metrics to improve performance, reliability, and availability. No single signal is sufficient; it's the combination and correlation of these data that form a narrative for root cause analysis.  In monolithic applications, debugging was easier since one service handled a request. In contrast, microservices distribute a request

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AWS Containers Blog

Scaling StarRocks on Amazon EKS with KEDA and Karpenter for enterprise OLAP workloads

Financial analytics at enterprise scale is unforgiving. Queries must return in seconds, not minutes. Thousands of finance professionals need concurrent access during monthly close cycles. And when data volumes grow from hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes, spanning billions of records, the infrastructure underneath must scale without forcing engineers to choose between performance and cost. This […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes ServiceBest PracticesIntermediate (200)
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