Uber Engineering

AUGUST 18, 2020

The making of Edge Gateway, the highly-available and scalable self-serve gateway to configure, manage, and monitor APIs of every business domain at Uber. In October 2014, Uber had started its journey of scale in what … The post Designing Edge Gateway, Uber’s API Lifecycle Management Platform appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In my previous blog post, Path to NoOps part 1: How modern AIOps brings NoOps within reach, I explored the aspirations of NoOps and how modern AIOps makes it possible. In this blog, I explore how Dynatrace has made cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale by embracing the principles of infrastructure as code.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

I am delighted to share, Dynatrace has been named a Leader for the 11 th consecutive time in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) report. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring, Federico De Silva, Padraig Byrne, and Josh Chessman, 9 April 2021. Dynatrace news.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). I should do a blog post just on SFrames. Just to name a couple of languages. This can be done using eBPF as well.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. As organizations move workloads and software development to multicloud environments to operate more efficiently and flexibly, traditional monitoring tools often fall short. Dynatrace news. AWS made better through AIOps.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. How do AWS Lambda functions impact monitoring? appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. It was the most challenging job among those I interviewed for.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. However, these highly dynamic and distributed environments require a new approach to monitoring Kubernetes infrastructure and applications.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To overcome the challenges of efficiently managing such deployments at a massive scale , they invent ed a platform to enable container orchestration, known as Borg, which has been Google’s secret weapon for a decade until, in 2014 when ? Successful Kubernetes Monitoring – Three Pitfalls to Avoid . Conclusion .

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Today we are excited to announce latency heatmaps and improved container support for our on-host monitoring solution?—?Vector?—?to Vector is an open-source host-level performance monitoring framework which we have been using for some time. We are also excited to see the future of monitoring with more heterogeneous workloads?—?not

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

To overcome the challenges of efficiently managing such deployments at a massive scale , they invent ed a platform to enable container orchestration, known as Borg, which has been Google’s secret weapon for a decade until, in 2014 when ? Successful Kubernetes Monitoring – Three Pitfalls to Avoid . Conclusion .

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. We'll likely open source the new one at some point and have a post about it on the Netflix tech blog. ## Case study: Facebook Facebook are advanced users of BPF, but deep details of how they run the tools fleet-wide aren't fully public.

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The Polyglot Developer

JANUARY 29, 2015

Since starting this blog in July of 2014, I have had an unexpected amount of growth. The worst part for me is that MySQL tends to crash while I’m sleeping, putting my blog out of commission for up to six hours at a time. The post Monitor MySQL And Auto Recover From A Crash appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. John Bennett (networking) co-presented How Netflix Monitors Applications in Near Real-Time with Amazon Kinesis. Networking.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. John Bennett (networking) co-presented How Netflix Monitors Applications in Near Real-Time with Amazon Kinesis. Networking.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. When I joined Netflix in April 2014, we had over 40 million subscribers in 41 countries. I'm also monitoring various chatrooms and metrics, and will jump in when needed. eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

It was around 2011 that PaaS software projects started as open instead of closed – think of OpenShift (2011), Cloud Foundry (2011), or Kubernetes (2014). The post Partner Spotlight: Simplify microservices complexity with Red Hat & Dynatrace appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A cloud-wide monitoring tool, Atlas, showed a high rate of paging for the larger file uploads: The blue is pageins (page ins). cachestat]: /blog/2014-12-31/linux-page-cache-hit-ratio.html [60-second performance checklist]: Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [bcc]: [link]

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is also applicable for people adding it to their own in-house monitoring systems. If you're using an open source monitoring platform, first check if it already has a BPF agent. As an extreme example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 at the time.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014. 1:36pm it was discovered that this shop was linked to from the Etsy blog post, via an article posted by the Etsy employee that owned the shop. The blog post was subsequently unpublished. The last word.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated. Our design for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 is still proven and meets the demands for many of our customers. The Y axis represents throughput as measured by the Performance Monitor counter Databases:Log Bytes Flushed/Sec. (if

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Discover the crucial MySQL setting that can optimize your database performance – check out our blog now !

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I wrote a blog about it years ago too, however as time has marched on, guidance has changed a bit. Jonathan Kehayias has written an blog post How much memory does my SQL Server actually need , with a formula that helps establish the baseline for the maximum memory value. For many years I've found users making the same mistakes.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

The agent allows Amazon ECS to communicate with the EC2 instances in the cluster to start, stop, and monitor containers as requested by a user or scheduler. So around the end of 2014, the engineering team started to explore moving towards a microservices architecture using containers.

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SQL Performance

MAY 7, 2019

Back in 2014, I started a series of blog posts here to talk about specific wait types and what they do and don’t mean. I wrote a series of blog posts here that go into details there, and Aaron Bertrand also wrote a summary post of the top 10 wait statistics last year. then this post is for you. Tracking Waits.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Vadim published a blog post about analyzing reddit comments with ClickHouse. In my previous blog post about ClickHouse I used it to find the most popular wikipedia page of the month. This is all true for ClickHouse, however, we may be able to live with it for our task. database: reddit table: rc_2017 mutation_id: mutation_858.txt

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Speed Curve

JUNE 10, 2015

Originally published on the O'Reilly Radar Blog. Here’s Kadlec’s related talk from Velocity 2014 in New York: The path to performance. Running and maintaining high-performance, highly-available sites and apps necessitates a near obsession with monitoring and metrics. So, how do you get your entire team excited by it?

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A cloud-wide monitoring tool, Atlas, showed a high rate of paging for the larger file uploads: The blue is pageins (page ins). cachestat]: /blog/2014-12-31/linux-page-cache-hit-ratio.html [60-second performance checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [bcc]: [link]

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Checking Your Meltdown and Spectre Mitigation Status in Windows.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

SQL Server 2014 SP2 and later produce runtime (“actual”) execution plans that can include elapsed time and CPU usage for each execution plan operator (see KB3170113 and this blog post by Pedro Lopes). Interpreting these numbers is not always as straightforward as one might expect.

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Tasktop

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In September I joined Engineering Operations at Tasktop as a Senior Software Engineer, helping the company to drive improvements in our builds, monitoring, infrastructure automation, release engineering, and all the other great things the team does. However, like many of my colleagues, my path to Tasktop was anything but conventional.

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