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Performant Capital Creates Platform Delivering Managed Technology Services and Revenue Cycle Management to the Healthcare Industry – Latest Digital…

SAVANNAH, Ga.(BUSINESS WIRE)Performant Capital announced today that it has formed Provider Technology, LLC (Provider Technology) through the acquisitions of DavLong Business Solutions LLC and its affiliate Administrative Advantage LLC (collectively, DBS) and On Demand Solutions Inc. (ODS). Provider Technology is a leading technology provider of outsourced software and IT services, revenue cycle management (RCM) and back-office business support primarily to physician practices and health systems. The businesses will continue to operate independently under their respective brands but share best practices across all functional areas.

Performant, investing out of Fund I, closed the DBS and ODS transactions simultaneously in June. The Private Credit business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs) provided first lien debt and an equity co-investment to support the acquisitions.

The team at Goldman Sachs has been invaluable as we executed this platform investment, said Mike Ciaglia, Partner at Performant. We look forward to meaningfully accelerating the growth of the business given the scale enabled by Goldmans partnership.

Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Savannah, GA, DBS provides turnkey IT solutions for physician practices by fully hosting, maintaining, and supporting all software needs for the medical office, from cloud hosting to cybersecurity. DBS combines its proprietary suite of software offerings with leading third-party solutions to provide medical practices with a fully integrated electronic health record and practice management system from a single vendor. In addition to its best-in-class software offering, DBS also provides complete RCM services designed to manage and optimize the entire collections process for practices. Across both primary functional areas, the company leverages technology, analytics, and the expertise of its skilled teams to improve operational and financial performance for customers.

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boise, ID, ODS provides practice management software, RCM, staffing support and business advisory services to healthcare service providers and organizations. Its solutions improve business operational efficiency, reduce administrative costs, and assure managerial control so clients can stay focused on providing quality patient care.

The combination of DBS, AA, and ODS creates a national back-office and healthcare technology platform servicing more than 3,000 medical providers across the U.S and across medical specialties developing best-in-class offerings and technology for specific specialties, such as Ophthalmology, EMS and Hospitalist providers. These businesses are highly complementary acquisitions that together provide enhanced technology capabilities and support services with broader geographic presence to better meet the needs of clients and improve their financial outcomes, said Chris McLaughlin, Partner at Performant Capital. Both businesses have a reputation of providing superior customer support as value-added partners to physicians and health organizations. Customers value our company as more than just a service provider, but extensions of their core teams. With an expanded presence and enhanced capabilities to drive further value for clients, were excited about the future of the combined business under Provider Technology.

Provider Technology continues to look for best-in-class revenue cycle management and managed service provider software businesses to healthcare customers that would expand its geographic footprint and service capabilities. If you have an opportunity that might be an add-on acquisition candidate for Provider Technology, please contact Mike Ciaglia (mciaglia@performantcapital.com) or Chris McLaughlin (cmclaughlin@performantcapital.com)

About Performant Capital

Performant Capital is a Chicago-based, lower middle market private equity firm focused on investments in technology-driven companies. Performant acquires businesses across SaaS, technology-enabled services, and data intelligence products and services. With over 50 years of collective investing and operating experience in these sectors, Performants principals seek opportunities where its depth of investing, operating expertise, and partner network can materially impact performance. More information on Performant Capital can be found at http://www.performantcapital.com.

About Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private Credit

Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investing area within Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), it delivers investment and advisory services for the worlds leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from its deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across every region and marketoverseeing more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide as of March 31, 2022. Driven by a passion for its clients performance, it seeks to build long-term relationships based on conviction, sustainable outcomes, and shared success over time. Goldman Sachs Asset Management invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. Established in 1996, the Private Credit business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the worlds largest private credit investors with over $90 billion in assets across direct lending, mezzanine debt, hybrid capital and asset-based lending strategies. Its deep industry and product knowledge, extensive relationships and global footprint position it to deliver scaled outcomes with speed and certainty, supporting companies from the lower middle market to large cap in size.

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The Worldwide Micro Server IC Industry is Projected to Reach $2.3 Billion by 2027 – ResearchAndMarkets.com – Business Wire

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Micro Server IC Market (2022-2027) by Component, Processor Type, Application, End User, Geography, Competitive Analysis and the Impact of Covid-19 with Ansoff Analysis" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The Global Micro Server IC Market is estimated to be USD 1.3 Bn in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 2.36 Bn by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 12.7%.

Market dynamics are forces that impact the prices and behaviors of the Global Micro Server IC Market stakeholders. These forces create pricing signals which result from the changes in the supply and demand curves for a given product or service. Forces of Market Dynamics may be related to macro-economic and micro-economic factors. There are dynamic market forces other than price, demand, and supply. Human emotions can also drive decisions, influence the market, and create price signals.

As the market dynamics impact the supply and demand curves, decision-makers aim to determine the best way to use various financial tools to stem various strategies for speeding the growth and reducing the risks.

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The report includes Competitive Quadrant, a proprietary tool to analyze and evaluate the position of companies based on their Industry Position score and Market Performance score. The tool uses various factors for categorizing the players into four categories. Some of these factors considered for analysis are financial performance over the last 3 years, growth strategies, innovation score, new product launches, investments, growth in market share, etc.

Ansoff Analysis

The report presents a detailed Ansoff matrix analysis for the Global Micro Server IC Market. Ansoff Matrix, also known as Product/Market Expansion Grid, is a strategic tool used to design strategies for the growth of the company. The matrix can be used to evaluate approaches in four strategies viz. Market Development, Market Penetration, Product Development and Diversification. The matrix is also used for risk analysis to understand the risk involved with each approach.

The analyst analyses the Global Micro Server IC Market using the Ansoff Matrix to provide the best approaches a company can take to improve its market position.

Based on the SWOT analysis conducted on the industry and industry players, The analyst has devised suitable strategies for market growth.

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‘You’re talking a load of tripe’: Shock as Ann Coulter questions why people should care about Ukraine – indy100

Ann Coulter has been slammed following an appearance on Piers Morgans Talk TV show, in which she questioned why people should care about the war in Ukraine.

The controversial Conservative commentator spoke about Vladimir Putins ongoing, illegal invasion and left other reporters in the studio Ava Evans and Esther Krakue completely baffled.

Putin has been reaching out to America. He was the first person to call after 9/11 to express his condolences towards America, and Bush didnt even call him back. We have so dissed the Russians for such a long time.

The NATO thing once the Soviet Union fell, theres no point to NATO. We keep encroaching, encroaching, encroaching she added.

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Morgan stepped in to say: Well actually were seeing exactly what the point of NATO is, which is to stop a murderous dictator like Vladimir Putin."

Coulter added: Im sorry, historically Ukraine was part of the Russian empire. Im not defending Putin why should Americans care about this? We have our own problems. Why should the British care about it?

Out of nowhere, Coulter then began talking about immigrants coming into the UK, saying: Youve just passed Brexit, a huge part of which was about immigration, and you have more immigrants coming in? Im so glad your guy Boris is gone and hopefully the next guy will actually fill the promises of Brexit.

Morgan then went on to draw comparisons to the outbreak of World War II with the war in Ukraine, to which Coulter replied: You cant compare everything to Hitler If Putin attacks Pearl Harbour, Ill be interested, but hes not attacking the United States.

Political reporter Ava Evans from PoliticsJoe then summed up how most people were feeling about Coulters comments by saying: I think you were just talking quite a lot of tripe actually, but thats your thing.

One social media user wrote: [Ava Evans] delivering the perfect drop line to Coulter's unhinged nonsense.

Another one said: Agreeing with piers morgan was not on the 2022 bingo card.

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Global Quantum Computing Market To Be Driven By Growing End Use Sectors In The Forecast Period Of 2021-2026 – Digital Journal

The new report by Expert Market Research titled, GlobalQuantum Computing Market GrowthSize, Share, Price, Trends, Growth, Analysis, Key Players, Outlook, Report, Forecast 2021-2026, gives an in-depth analysis of the Global Quantum Computing Marketassessing the market based on its segments like offering, application, end use and major regions. The report tracks the latest trends in the industry and studies their impact on the overall market. It also assesses the market dynamics, covering the key demand and price indicators, along with analysing the market based on the SWOT and Porters Five Forces models.

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Market Overview (2016-2026)

The services category is expected to hold a considerable part of the market based on its offerings. This is due to the increasing use of quantum computing as a service (QCaaS) in industries such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, defence, and banking, among others. Quantum computers are extremely quick and efficient, capable of doing calculations in milliseconds. As a result, they are widely employed in many businesses, particularly in the BFSI sector, to speed up procedures. Meanwhile, the market has benefited from the increased usage of this technology in optimisation, simulation, and machine learning applications in various end-use sectors to achieve optimal utilisation cost.

Industry Definition and Major Segments

Quantum computing is an area of computer science that focuses on building computer technology based on quantum theory ideas. It is the use of quantum state collective features like superposition and entanglement to accomplish computation.

On the basis of offering, the market is segmented into:

Based on application, the product can be segmented into:

The industry finds its end use into:

The report also covers regional market like North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.

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Market Trend

The global quantum computing business is being propelled forward by rising demand in a variety of end-user industries, including defence, financial services, and others. Rapid technical breakthroughs and a rising reliance of many industries on sophisticated computing technologies to solve complicated problems that even todays most powerful supercomputers cannot handle are driving market expansion. Health and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy and electricity, and other growing sectors in emerging economies are all contributing considerably to the industrys growth. The governments increasing investments in quantum computing technology in order to develop improved solutions and expand their knowledge base related to the technology will accelerate the market growth.

Key Market Players

The major players in the market are Microsoft Corporation, IBM Corporation, Intel Corporation, Google Inc., and D-Wave Systems Inc., among others. The report covers the market shares, capacities, plant turnarounds, expansions, investments and mergers and acquisitions, among other latest developments of these market players.

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NYU Langone, Fermilab to enhance, speed up quantitative MR with quantum computing – DOTmed HealthCare Business News

NYU Langone and Fermilabs Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center have proposed a pilot program to study a new method in MR imaging that combines quantitative MR (qMR) with quantum computing.

The two would develop algorithms that quantum computers could use to accurately and rapidly determine multiple tissue properties from MR scans. While quantum computing would speed up and make scans more accurate, the algorithms would improve qMR for clinical use to allow doctors to confirm interpretations by comparing MR scans based on statistics and machine learning, rather than inconsistencies in image contrast.

We expect to be able to model a large number of properties and the interactions among them to obtain a more comprehensive picture of the underlying structure of the imaged tissues. This will be possible not just because quantum computers enable faster generation of the large models, but also because they are better suited than traditional computers to model the interactions between tissue properties in MR, since they are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, Dr. Riccardo Lattanzi, an associate radiology professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and principal investigator, told HCB News.

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The data is held within the 3D pixels of MR scans, which quantum computers can use to measure properties to assess and monitor patient health across multiple scans. It also can speed up measurements and create more accurate MR simulations to show the underlying properties of the MR data fingerprints.

Having multiple quantitative parameters that reflect the underlying properties of tissues improves detection of lesions and pathologies. Furthermore, by looking at them from different angles (i.e., by having multiple biophysical parameters estimated for the same pixel), we can also better characterize these lesions to help create personalized treatments," said Lattanzi.

He adds that another potential application is being able to generate digital twins to detect and characterize abnormalities.

SQMS Center is made up of 23 institutions studying the use of quantum computing. The partnership is the first one it has undertaken for directly advancing healthcare.

NYU has received DOE Office of Science approval to become a member of the SQMS Center.

The collaboration is pending final approval of a formal agreement between NYU and Fermi Research Alliance, which manages Fermilab.

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Quantum Computing Market Size, Scope, Growth Opportunities, Trends by Manufacturers And Forecast to 2029 – This Is Ardee

New Jersey, United States This Quantum Computing Market research works as the best evaluation tool to track the progress of the industry and keep an eye on the competitors growth strategies. It further helps to keep you ahead of your business competitors. This report depicts a few potential problems and gives solutions to them by doing comprehensive research on the market scenario. Valuable information is provided here about a particular market segment according to product type, application, region type, and end user. By referring to this comprehensive Quantum Computing market analysis report, it becomes possible for organizations to monitor the efficiency of sales, determine the quality of services offered by competitors, estimate the competition level in the market and understand the communication channels followed by competitors in the market.

This Quantum Computing Market research report covers career outlooks, regional marketplaces, and an overview of the expectations of a number of end-use sectors. With the help of relevant market data, key organizations are able to obtain a competitive benefit over the competitors in the market and attain the best results for business growth. Furthermore, this Quantum Computing market analysis report emphasizes doing a comparison between several various geographical markets in key regions such as North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. It aims at covering complex structures to classifications to an easy-to-follow overview of different business sectors.

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Qxbranch QC Ware Corp., International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), D-Wave Systems Inc., 1qb Information Technologies Inc., Cambridge Quantum Computing Ltd, Station Q Microsoft Corporation, River Lane Research, Rigetti Computing, Research at Google Google Inc

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Global Growth Trends:This section focuses on industry trends where market drivers and top market trends are shed light upon. It also provides growth rates of key producers operating in the Quantum Computing market. Furthermore, it offers production and capacity analysis where marketing pricing trends, capacity, production, and production value of the Quantum Computing market are discussed.

Market Share by Manufacturers:Here, the report provides details about revenue by manufacturers, production and capacity by manufacturers, price by manufacturers, expansion plans, mergers and acquisitions, and products, market entry dates, distribution, and market areas of key manufacturers.

Market Size by Type:This section concentrates on product type segments where production value market share, price, and production market share by product type are discussed.

Market Size by Application:Besides an overview of the Quantum Computing market by application, it gives a study on the consumption in the Quantum Computing market by application.

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Hilbert space to Outer Space | Science and Technology – Science and Technology

Hilbert space to Outer Space

Dr. Vinod Gehlot, JPL Postdoctoral Fellow

Thursday, July 28 @ 12:00 pm (PT) 180-101 and via WebEx

Abstract:This talk will showcase the exciting developments in Dynamic Stability of Multi-Agent Systems, Quantum Computing for Robotics, and the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) anchoring systems. In designing robotic formations, guarantees on the closed-loop behavior of individual robots or agents do not translate to guarantees on the overall multi-agent system. This talk introduces a novel control architecture that ensures dynamic stability in multi-agent formations and simultaneously prevents inter-agent collisions. Quantum computing and control have the potential to revolutionize robotic and space applications, and this talk will introduce an approach to solving ordinary differential equations using quantum circuits and discuss the possibilities and current challenges. Finally, this talk will also discuss the design and development of the anchoring system and its deployment for the kilometer-sized Lunar Crater Radio Telescope.

About the speaker:Vinod Gehlot is a JPL Postdoctoral Fellow in the Maritime and Multi-Agent Autonomy Group (347N) in the Robotic and Mobility section. Before JPL, he was a TEES Research Engineer in the mechanical engineering department at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in aerospace engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fl, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Vinod is passionate about robotics, dynamics, control & estimation theory, quantum computing and control, adaptive systems, and multi-agent control and dynamics. He has authored three patents on the mechanical implementation of counter-rotation mechanisms in axial compressors for aircraft gas turbine engines. Besides his academic endeavors, Vinod has extensive experience developing high-performance embedded hardware and software using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

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PERSPECTIVE: Take the Leap More Women Should Be Engineers – HS Today – HSToday

The words diversity and equality are often mentioned in a corporations credo, but rarely do organizations create significant actions and initiatives that invite everyone to the table equally. Although there have been great strides to be more inclusive and tolerant in the industry, the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) field remains heavily dominated by men. Personally, I have pursued STEM since I was a young girl, with a passion for math and science, eventually leading me to a career in electrical engineering.

Women deserve all the same opportunities as their male counterparts in engineering, and for that to happen it initially requires an open mind with a willingness to listen. Leaders are responsible for the work environments they create and nurture. When an organizations culture is curated with tolerance and understanding that promotes diversity, leaders tend to see engagement that supports innovative ideas and solutions for businesses. From my experience, diverse teams produce more out-of-the-box solutions, resulting in successful organizations. Forming positive initiatives for all women from any background creates opportunity, providing proof that women are wanted and belong in STEM-driven careers.

Sometimes, you just need to take a leap of faith. That leap may entail switching jobs, changing industries, or fighting for what you deserve, but never forget to believe in yourself and the value of your contributions. As rewarding as engineering positions can be, they can also be quite intense, requiring advanced levels of understanding of multiple technical systems. Maintaining mental and social flexibility is key for well-being, reducing the chance of finding yourself in a situation where you feel cornered or out of resources. This is where positive support systems are key to a successful career.

The support systems help level the playing field and allow aspiring professional women to succeed in their goals and careers. Mentors, compassionate leaders, advisors, and advocates can help improve a womens career in engineering as drastically as it did mine. Ambitious women should use all the tools and resources at their disposal to advance their careers in STEM. Listening to encouraging words from a fellow female professional or leader can be just what you need. Relying on mentors, role models and compassionate leaders can help improve a womens career in engineering as drastically as it did mine. Constructive and fair criticism should be welcomed and appreciated. No one is perfect and that is what makes us all beautiful.

I praise the women around the world tearing down barriers within their industry. Diversity, representation, and inclusion are the key pillars to a positive, compassionate, and productive work environment. I highly encourage any woman to be open to opportunity, be agile, be tenacious, be bold, explore numerous career paths in engineering and inspire others to pursue a career in engineering. Women belong in engineering, period.

The views expressed here are the writers and are not necessarily endorsed by Homeland Security Today, which welcomes a broad range of viewpoints in support of securing our homeland. To submit a piece for consideration, email Editor@Hstoday.us.

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It’s time to leave the leap second in the past – Facebook Engineering

The leap second concept was first introduced in 1972 by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in an attempt to periodically update Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) due to imprecise observed solar time (UT1) and the long-term slowdown in the Earths rotation. This periodic adjustment mainly benefits scientists and astronomers as it allows them to observe celestial bodies using UTC for most purposes. If there were no UTC correction, then adjustments would have to be made to the legacy equipment and software that synchronize to UTC for astronomical observations.

As of today, since the introduction of the leap second, UTC has been updated 27 times.

While the leap second might have been an acceptable solution in 1972, when it made both the scientific community and the telecom industry happy, these days UTC is equally bad for both digital applications and scientists, who often choose TAI or UT1 instead.

At Meta, were supporting an industry effort to stop future introductions of leap seconds and stay at a current level of 27. Introducing new leap seconds is a risky practice that does more harm than good, and we believe it is time to introduce new technologies to replace it.

One of many contributing factors to irregularities in the Earths rotation is the constant melting and refreezing of ice caps on the worlds tallest mountains. This phenomenon can be simply visualized by thinking about a spinning figure skater, who manages angular velocity by controlling their arms and hands. As they spread their arms the angular velocity decreases, preserving the skaters momentum. As soon as the skater tucks their arms back in the angular velocity increases.

So far, only positive leap seconds have been added. In the early days, this was done by simply adding an extra second, resulting in an unusual timestamp:

23:59:59 -> 23:59:60 -> 00:00:00

At best, such a time jump crashed programs or even corrupted data, due to weird timestamps in the data storage.

With the Earths rotation pattern changing, its very likely that we will get a negative leap second at some point in the future. The timestamp will then look like this:

23:59:58 -> 00:00:00

The impact of a negative leap second has never been tested on a large scale; it could have a devastating effect on the software relying on timers or schedulers.

In any case, every leap second is a major source of pain for people who manage hardware infrastructures.

More recently, it has become a common practice to smear a leap second by simply slowing down or speeding up the clock. There is no universal way to do this, but at Meta we smear the leap second throughout 17 hours, starting at 00:00:00 UTC based on the time zone data (tzdata) package content.

Lets break this down a bit.

We chose a 17-hour duration primarily because smearing is happening on Stratum 2, where hundreds of NTP servers perform smearing at the same time. To ensure that the difference between them is tolerable, the steps must be minimal. If the smearing steps are too big, NTP clients may consider some devices faulty and exclude them from quorum, which may lead to an outage.

The starting point at 00:00:00 UTC is also not standardized, and there are many possible options. For example, some companies begin smearing at 12:00:00 UTC the day before and throughout 24 hours; some do so two hours before the event, and others right at the edge.

There are also different algorithms on the smearing itself. There is a kernel leap second correction, linear smearing (when equal steps are applied), cosine, and quadratic (which Meta uses). The algorithms are based on different mathematical models and produce different offset graphs:

The source of the leap indicator differs between GNSS constellations (e.g., GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou). In some cases, it is broadcast by satellites several hours in advance. In other cases, time is propagated in UTC with the leap already applied. In different constellations, the leap second value differs depending on when it was launched.

All of this requires the nontrivial conversion logic inside of the time sources, including our very own Time Appliance. Loss of a GNSS signal during such a sensitive time may lead to a loss of a leap indicator and a split-brain situation, which could lead to an outage.

The leap event is also propagated via tzdata package months in advance, and for ntpd fans, via a leap second file distributed through the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) website. Not having a fresh copy of the file may lead to forgetting about a leap second and causing an outage.

As already mentioned, the smearing is a very sensitive moment. If the NTP server is restarted during this period, we will likely end up with either old or new time, which may propagate to the clients and lead to an outage.

Because of such ambiguities, public NTP pools dont do smearing, sometimes passing a leap indicator to the clients to figure this out. SNTP clients usually end up stepping the clock and dealing with the consequences described earlier. Smarter clients may choose a default strategy to smear the leap locally. All in all, this means big players like Meta, who perform smearing on public services, cant join the public pools.

And even after the leap event, things are still at risk. NTP software needs to constantly apply offset compared to the source of time its using (GNSS, TAI, or Atomic Clock), and PTP software needs to propagate a so-called UTC offset flag in the announce messages.

The leap second and the offset it creates cause issues all over the industry. One of the simplest ways to cause an outage is to bake in an assumption of time always going forward. Say we have a code like this:

start := time.Now()

// do something

spent := time.Now().Sub(start)

Depending on how spent is used, we may end up in a situation relying on a negative value during a leap second event. Such assumptions have caused numerous outages, and there are plenty of articles that describe these cases.

Back in 2012, Reddit experienced a massive outage because of a leap second; the site was inaccessible for 30 to 40 minutes. This happened when the time change confused the high-resolution timer (hrtimer), sparking hyperactivity on the servers, which locked up the machines CPUs.

In 2017, Cloudflare posted a very detailed article about the impact of a leap second on the companys public DNS. The root cause of the bug that affected their DNS service was the belief that time cannot go backward. The code took the upstream time values and fed them to Gos rand.Int63n() function. The rand.Int63n() function promptly panicked because the argument was negative, which caused the DNS server to fail.

Its worth mentioning that Go, in particular, relies on a monotonic clock, and in most cases, is less susceptible to such issues.

Leap second events have caused issues across the industry and continue to present many risks. As an industry, we bump into problems whenever a leap second is introduced. And because its such a rare event, it devastates the community every time it happens. With a growing demand for clock precision across all industries, the leap second is now causing more damage than good, resulting in disturbances and outages.

As engineers at Meta, we are supporting a larger community push to stop the future introduction of leap seconds and remain at the current level of 27, which we believe will be enough for the next millennium.

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Engineering works on Greater Anglia and c2c during August Bank Holiday – RailAdvent – Railway News

Services are likely to be disrupted on the Greater Anglia and c2c network during August Bank Holiday from Saturday, 27th to Monday, 29th August whilst Network Rail carries out essential maintenance to the tracks, signalling, and overhead lines.

The work is essential to keep services running safely and reliably.

Rail-replacement bus services will be in place and passengers are advised to check before they travel. No full-size bikes or e-scooters can be carried by rail replacement buses.

Work taking place includes:

Passengers should check National Rail Enquiries for the latest information on which trains will be running.

Ipswich to Ely/Cambridge North

Liverpool Street to Cheshunt (Local Diversions)

Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Ockendon

Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Rainham

Between Broxbourne and Hertford East

Between Stratford and Meridian Water

The rest of Anglias rail network, including the main lines, will be open as normal.

Ellie Burrows, Network Rails route director for Anglia, said:

Were carrying out renewal and upgrade works across the network to improve reliability and prevent delays now and in the future. Passengers are advised to check before they travel. Id like to thank passengers for their patience while we carry out this essential work.

Jamie Burles, Greater Anglia managing director said:

Were very sorry for any inconvenience caused by these projects, but its essential so that we can run our new longer trains.

Customers should check before they travel and allow more time for their journeys.

Where we are able to run rail replacement buses, they will be fully accessible with extra staff on hand to make the transition between train and bus as easy as possible.

Customer reaction to our new trains has been fantastic. With their plug and USB points, fast free Wi-Fi, air conditioning, improved accessibility features, dedicated cycle spaces and better passenger information screens, our new trains offer a much better travel experience.

c2cs MD Rob Mullen, said:

The work Network Rail is carrying out over the August Bank Holiday is essential in keeping services running safely and reliably in the longer term.

Some of our services will be operating differently than normal with rail replacement in operation on parts of our route. We would ask that our customers check before they travel over the summer bank holiday.

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