Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Alibaba Cloud has revealed homebrew tech it used to improve server fault prediction and detection, which it claims saw its ability to detect problems beat comparable tech by ten percent. The Chinese cloud champ's claims emerged last week in a paper [PDF] presented at the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and …

[brainwrong]

What?!

"Therefore, effective failure prediction must adequately make use of the exception timestamp information"

Err, that obvious, innit.

The news here should be that they're a bunch of idiots who weren't doing that in the first place.

These are the people who are building our future, seemingly no better than than the Nigerians are building Lagos-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ed9y3049o

[druck]

Not just TAAT, but...

...Chinese Hyper Efficient Automated Process TAAT