Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy.

Analytics 193

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 193

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Infrastructure as code is also known as software-defined infrastructure, or software intelligence as code. and 2.14.1.

Serverless 271

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 271

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The Greenplum Architecture.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? Read report now!

Cloud 182

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 182

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Dynatrace news.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! to 60ms in one of the more frequently used transactions.

Cache 201

Cache Architecture Database Government 201

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Generally speaking, cloud migration involves moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based services. In cloud computing environments, infrastructure and services are maintained by the cloud vendor, allowing you to focus on how best to serve your customers. However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. Customizing and connecting these services requires code.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 184

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking.

Efficiency 99

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Gandalf: an intelligent, end-to-end analytics service for safe deployment in cloud-scale infrastructure , Li et al., memory leaks that take hours to build up into an issue); and there can be problems that only exhibit themselves with certain user, hardware, or software configurations. NSDI’20.

Analytics 68

Analytics Infrastructure Cloud Hardware 68

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). Future 5G Standalone Architecture (SA) deployments with a native 5G control plane will not have this problem.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). Let’s talk about what Amazon ECS is actually doing.

Latency 166

Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. These feedback loops allow you to develop more accurate assessments when deploying new versions or updates related to Redis® infrastructure.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. The importance of the network.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. Conclusion If any of this piques your interest, reach out to us!

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These devices ran on a diverse range of OS versions, screen resolutions, and network types. Device Infrastructure. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. A dedicated test lab only makes sense when you have a realistic budget and infrastructure at the place.

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Hardware DevOps 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. Many bulkhead architectures partition their cells on tenants, where a tenant is defined as a team and their collection of applications. We do not take this approach, and instead, we partition our cells to balance load.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

When I think about cloud-native architectures, I think about disaggregation (enabling each resource type to scale independently), fine-grained units of resource allocation (enabling rapid response to changing workload demands, i.e. elasticity), and isolation (keeping tenants apart). From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Source: FileFlex.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. ” Read it here!

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0,

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45