Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Additionally, blind spots in cloud architecture are making it increasingly difficult for organizations to balance application performance with a robust security posture. Tech Transforms podcast: It’s time to get familiar with generative AI – blog Generative AI can unlock boundless innovation. What is generative AI? What is DevSecOps?

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

This article was co-authored with Eduardo da Silva (also published on his blog ). Architecture modernization initiatives are strategic efforts involving many teams, usually for many months or years. They need a more loosely coupled architecture and empowered teams.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. Thought Experiment. bytes remaining to move.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Sure, you can get there with the right extensions and tools, but it can be a long, burdensome, and potentially expensive process. So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When we process a request it is often beneficial to know which fields the caller is interested in and which ones they ignore. How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? This blog post covered how and why it is used at Netflix Studio Engineering for APIs that read the data.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Although, only recently the security attacks on quantum computers have begun to be demonstrated, this brings to the forefront the need to consider security of quantum computer architectures as a first-class design objective. Why Research Security of Quantum Computers?

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How does it contribute to the software development process ? This article will explain why most companies and their software developers use SDLC to manage their development process. SDLC is an essential framework for the total software development process as it aids in managing software development projects effectively.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve heard the opinion from many technical leaders that it is reasonable to expect a new hire to take upto 6 months to learn about the code, the domain, and the architecture before they become fully productive. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the first blog post of this series , we explored how the Dynatrace ® observability and security platform boosts the reliability of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) CI/CD pipelines and enhances their ability to focus on innovation. In this blog post, we’ll focus on the first stage of the pipeline, the Build stage.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. The Greenplum Architecture. The Greenplum Architecture.

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Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Team Topologies has significantly advanced the discussion on organisation design for technology companies. My goal is to create common ground so that we can discuss the trade-offs of organisational design patterns. Domains are synonymous with business capabilities from the business architecture world. The answer is all of them.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

In this blog post, we explore real-life scenarios shared by our customers, partners, and internal users at Dynatrace, offering inspiration to kickstart your own journey with custom solutions powered by AppEngine. However, this process can become tedious with hundreds of thousands of events flooding in daily.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way. Event Prioritization Considering the use cases were wide ranging both in terms of their sources and their importance, we built segmentation into the event processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. Ingest and process with Grail. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

To once again push the boundaries of automatic, AI-based Kubernetes monitoring, we’ve extended Smartscape, the Dynatrace real-time topology model, with visibility into how processes and containers communicate with each other in Kubernetes. Now you can: Understand the actual architecture of your applications in Kubernetes in real-time.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Across the cloud operations lifecycle, especially in organizations operating at enterprise scale, the sheer volume of cloud-native services and dynamic architectures generate a massive amount of data. Effectively automating IT processes is key to addressing the challenges of  complex cloud environments. What is causal AI?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. Processing took several hours to complete. Here is a visualization of this flow.

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Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is hugely important for medium and large organisations. The traditional EA role of documenting business processes and capabilities serves a purposes. designing systems that document themselves. In my experience as a consultant, EAs are not having the impact they should.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results. Michael blogs as "Database Whisperer" at michaeljswart.com.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The rise of cloud-native microservice architectures further exacerbates this change. As a result, IT organizations are overwhelmed as they strive to balance cost control processes with ensuring that their respective organizations have access to all the data required for their various use cases. Ingest and process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grail – the foundation of exploratory analytics Grail can already store and process log and business events. Introducing Metrics on Grail Despite their many advantages, modern cloud-native architectures can result in scalability and fragmentation challenges. You no longer need to split, distribute, or pre-aggregate your data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. A distinct, NN-based, video processing block can evolve independently, be used beyond video downscaling and be combined with different codecs. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Democratizing Stream Processing @ Netflix By Guil Pires , Mark Cho , Mingliang Liu , Sujay Jain Data powers much of what we do at Netflix. On the Data Platform team, we build the infrastructure used across the company to process data at scale. In our last blog post, we introduced “Data Mesh” — A Data Movement and Processing Platform.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I remember as a young, naive software developer, I assumed there would be structured processes and patterns similar to those used for designing a software architecture. I crave structure and analytical thinking patterns to design optimal solutions. There are too many variables involved. Make an effort to visualise them.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Unlike Prof. Chien’s argument: It costs only $1.4B Therefore, the $1.4B

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps is a cross-team collaboration framework that integrates security into DevOps processes from the start rather than waiting to address security in a separate silo. DevOps has gained ground in recent years as a way to combine key operational principles with development cycles, recognizing that these two processes must coexist.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. How to get started.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The path to “Architected for Resiliency” is long, but it clearly pays off in the long run, especially when outages occur, as I want to show you in this blog post. Fact #4: Multi-node, multi-availability zone deployment architecture.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! We’ll discuss batch data processing, the limitations we faced, and how Psyberg emerged as a solution. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? Some techniques we used were: 1.

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