Due to issues our hosting company currently has, this night (or at least for me it was during the night) - we experienced our longest downtime ever - about 4 hours. I'll try and set it up so it'll automatically switch to a backup server in such events so this doesn't happen again. Apologies to everyone affected. All should be good now.

Force Control Industries, a leader in oil shear technology, unveiled its new MagnaShear motor brakes.

SZWireDie, a professional wire drawing die supplier China, offers polycrystalline dies for businesses to achieve high production efficiency with less downtime.

Jeremy Jung talks with David Calavera about zero-downtime migrations and rollbacks with Kubernetes. In this episode we define migrations, rollbacks, and discuss how Netlify was able to migrate to Kubernetes and roll back off of it multiple times without impacting their users. David explains how developers can run old and new systems simultaneously, the importance of defining errors in your system, and when to apply fixes vs rolling back. We also discuss their decision to move to Kubernetes, and the benefits they received.

How do you handle the possibility of changing teaching schedules in your music studio during the summer months?

New global research from SOTI has revealed that transportation and logistics (T&L) workers are each losing 13 hours of productive time per month, as a result of device-related issues. 

By Anthony Jefferson, freelance writer.

Rugged devices play a significant role in performing regular operations in the industries like high-tech, manufacturing, shipping, mining, construction, real estate, logistics, supply chain and transportation.

'I'm excited to get back in, I really do miss it. This has been almost a blessing on one side because it gives you more appreciation for the things that you love and do.'

Many people have regular jobs that they love, and which enable them to use their creative skills to make money. This could be anything from coding video games to being an expert in SEO or designing...

The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems, including a method for updating an application. At least one application instance of an application is managed. Each application instance is associated with a plurality of executing work processes connected with a first database schema. A bridge database schema is generated that is related to the first database schema. The bridge database schema represents a copy of the first database schema and is generated in response to initiation of an update to the application. In response to determining that the generation of the bridge database schema is complete, for each of the plurality of work processes, a commit work action performed by the particular work process is determined. In response to determining performance of the commit work action, the particular work process is connected to the bridge database schema.

In order to move MetaFilter to a new server*, the site will be offline between 22:00 and 01:00 PDT Thursday evening.

The moderator e-mail (via admin@mefi.us) will still be working during this time.

In other time zones:

EDT:   01:00-04:00

BST:   05:00-09:00

CEDT:  07:00-10:00

IST:   10:00-13:30

CST:   13:00-16:00

AEDT:  16:00-19:00

In a second attempt at moving MetaFilter to a new AWS account, the site will be offline between 22:00 and 01:00 PDT Sunday evening.

The moderator e-mail (via admin@mefi.us) will still be working during this time.

In other time zones:

GMT:   05:00-08:00

EDT:   01:00-04:00

BST:   06:00-09:00

CEDT:  07:00-10:00

IST:   10:30-13:30

CST:   13:00-16:00

AET:   15:00-18:00

MetaFilter will be down for approximately 2 hours, 1:00-3:00 a.m. Pacific time, for some necessary server maintenance. Details in MetaTalk.

This looks like a good way to spend my time after classes are over, but I haven’t been able to find it in the Ikea catalog. Has it sold out already?

Amy Adams hit the red carpet at the SAG Awards, nominated twice for her roles in Vice and Sharp Objects, discussing what she did on her downtime and raising her daughter Aviana.