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Achieving High Availability in CI/CD With Observability

DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Since most application releases depend on cloud infrastructure, having good continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and end-to-end observability becomes essential for ensuring highly available systems.

Availability

Availability DevOps Infrastructure Scalability

Performance Optimization for Multi-Layered Cloud Native AWS Application

DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Performance engineering requires analysis of the performance and resiliency of each component level and the interactions between these. While there is guidance available at the technical implementation of components, e.g., for AWS API Gateway , Lambda functions, etc.,

AWS

AWS Cloud Lambda Performance

Unmatched scalability and security of Dynatrace extensions now available for all supported technologies: 7 reasons to migrate your JMX and Python plugins

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

address these limitations and brings new monitoring and analytical capabilities that weren’t available to Extensions 1.0: address these limitations and brings new monitoring and analytical capabilities that weren’t available to Extensions 1.0: available, and more are in the pipeline. Extensions 2.0 Extensions 2.0

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A Comprehensive Guide to Cloud Monitoring Tools: Ensuring Optimal Performance and Security

DZone

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With the help of these potent tools, businesses can monitor the performance, availability, and security of their cloud resources in real-time. The need for reliable monitoring solutions to guarantee top performance, security, and cost-effectiveness is one of the new challenges brought about by this shift.

Cloud

Cloud Monitoring Performance Infrastructure

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Patroni for PostgreSQL.

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Performance Testing Using Iter8

DZone

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

There are umpteen performance testing tools available in the commercial market as well as in the open-source repositories. Recently, Go-based performance testing tools are exploding in the open-source world. Based on our requirements, we can choose the best tool from the arsenal.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Performance Testing Open Source

The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

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Cache Scalability Performance Latency

Spark-Radiant: Apache Spark Performance and Cost Optimizer

DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

Spark-Radiant is Apache Spark Performance and Cost Optimizer. Spark-Radiant will help optimize performance and cost considering catalyst optimizer rules, enhance auto-scaling in Spark, collect important metrics related to a Spark job, Bloom filter index in Spark, etc. Spark-Radiant is now available and ready to use.

Performance

Performance Metrics Availability Big Data

FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance.

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Strategy Latency Availability Traffic

Container monitoring for VA Platform One helps VA achieve workload performance

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Dynatrace container monitoring supports customers as they collect metrics, traces, logs, and other observability-enabled data to improve the health and performance of containerized applications. VAPO is available in both Microsoft Azure and AWS. It’s an enterprise product that we use to help modernize the VA,” Fuqua said.

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Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Performance Healthcare

MongoDB Performance Resources

Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As I started to work for MongoDB, I started to get questions about MongoDB performance. We do have a lot of great resources that can help with MongoDB performance. First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Tips and Tricks for Query Performance: Let Us.explain() Them.

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Performance IoT Education Best Practices

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16 Is Now Available

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It looks like we succeeded, and I’m happy to announce that Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16 is now available! Improved vacuum freezing performance. We plan to make Percona images for PostgreSQL available on Docker Hub shortly. Parallelization of FULL and internal right OUTER hash joins is now allowed.

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Availability Open Source Database Servers

Percona Server for MongoDB 7 Is Now Available

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition. Reading the below would not make me feel at ease while performing an upgrade: Binary downgrades are no longer supported for MongoDB Community Edition.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source

Ddosify: High-performance Load Testing Tool, QAInsights

DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2021

There are over 50+ tools and solutions available in the market for performance testing your application and services. Now it is time to check out Ddosify, a high-performance load testing tool that offers free and commercial features to test web applications and services over HTTP(S), HTTP/2, and other protocols are on their way.

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Optimize your environment: Unveiling Dynatrace Hyper-V extension for enhanced performance and efficient troubleshooting

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

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What’s the Best PostgreSQL High Availability Framework? PAF vs. repmgr vs. Patroni Infographic

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Wondering which high availability framework to use for your PostgreSQL deployments ? We compared the top 3 frameworks, PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) vs. Replication Manager (repmgr) vs. Patroni , in our Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL series. PostgreSQL High Availability Framework Infographic.

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Availability Azure AWS DevOps

Davis AI now detects infrastructure availability issues as root cause

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

Having been named as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner APM Magic Quadrant for the 10 th consecutive time proves that Dynatrace is the best-of-breed application performance monitoring tool available. As such, Davis automatically detects process and host availability root causes for large-scale, user-impacting incidents.

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Java/Spring Boot/MongoDb - Performance Analysis and Improvements

DZone

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It calculates the averages for newly available quotes. The average quotes for several years of data had to be recalculated so performance became interesting. It is implemented in the PrepareDataTask class. It gets started on startup by the TaskStarter class. Everything was done on Linux x64 with a Terumium Jdk 17 and MongoDb 4.4.

Java

Java Performance Availability

Mobile Performance Metrics You Should Know: Part 1

DZone

AUGUST 21, 2021

Speed, UX, availability, and frequency of updates are increasingly important with mobile apps. The responsibility of developers keeps growing, and as mobile apps get more complex, new tools for mobile performance monitoring and testing are being born. Consumers and enterprises alike expect more from software.

Mobile

Mobile Metrics Performance Speed

Dynatrace Perform 2024 Guide: Deriving business value from AI data analysis

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

These are the goals of AI observability and data observability, a key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , the observability provider’s annual conference, which takes place in Las Vegas from January 29 to February 1, 2024. Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further.

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Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II

Scalegrid

MARCH 12, 2019

Are you deploying PostgreSQL in the cloud and want to understand your options for achieving high availability? In our previous blog post, Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I , we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by ClusterLabs. High Availability Test Scenarios.

Availability

Availability Servers Open Source Database

Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. 34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction.

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The Importance of Access Logs in Performance Issue Analysis

DZone

JANUARY 3, 2022

While doing any performance analysis, these logs play an important role. Access logs are available for the below servers while the format for each of them varies: It logs status code, response time, URL, protocol, size, client IP address, etc., about the request.

Performance

Performance Servers Code Availability

MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

Azure

Azure Benchmarking Database Latency

3 Performance Tricks for Dealing With Big Data Sets

DZone

AUGUST 21, 2021

This article describes 3 different tricks that I used in dealing with big data sets (order of 10 million records) and that proved to enhance performance dramatically. This trick enhanced the performance dramatically. Trick 1: CLOB Instead of Result Set.

Big Data

Big Data Performance Tuning Mobile

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

Managing cloud performance is increasingly challenging for organizations that spread workloads across a greater variety of platforms. Moreover, organizations have to balance maintaining security, retaining cloud management expertise, and managing infrastructure performance. Rural lifestyle retail giant Tractor Supply Co.

Cloud

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail

Reducing Network Latency and Improving Read Performance With CockroachDB and PolyScale.ai

DZone

MAY 15, 2023

Oftentimes, our customers demand CockroachDB be available in regions where we see low demand, and bringing those regions online is not cost-effective to the organization. As of this writing, we support the most popular regions in GCP and AWS; some regions are not exposed in the cloud console but are available via support ticket.

Latency

Latency Network AWS Performance

Analyze all AWS data in minutes with Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams available in Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2021

Dynatrace ingests this data to perform root-cause analysis using the Dynatrace Davis® AI engine. This allowed for the best balance between reactivity and performance, however, for some services, like AWS Lambda or Amazon EC2, even faster reactivity is required. Currently Dynatrace requests CloudWatch data every five minutes.

AWS

AWS Metrics Availability Lambda

ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

This new ScaleGrid DigitalOcean service also shows significant performance improvements over DigitalOcean Managed Databases, with an average 68% higher throughput for write-intensive workloads and 94% higher throughput for balanced workloads.

Availability

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database

Announcing the General Availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL Version 2

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. Please refer to our documentation.

Availability

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware

Highly Available Redis Clusters with Automated Sharding Launches at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis, an open-source in-memory data structure project, that allows you to automatically shard across multiple Redis nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. Some of the advanced benefits of Redis Clusters include: High Availability.

Availability

Availability Open Source AWS DevOps

Java memory optimizations: 3x Jenkins performance improvement with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2020

Dynatrace also alerted on intermittent outages throughout the day and especially after 8pm when the bulk of the nightly jobs were executed: On March 31st our Jenkins violated our SLAs from both availability and user experience. As a negative side effect, the team ran into a JVM bug which they could workaround though.

Java

Java Performance DevOps Engineering

Article: Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act Framework to Produce Performant and Highly Available Systems

InfoQ

JUNE 9, 2021

The PDCA (plan-do-check-act) framework can be used to outline the performance, availability, and monitoring to enable teams to ensure performant and highly available applications. These include infrastructure design and setup, application architecture and design, coding, performance testing, and application monitoring.

Availability

Availability Performance Systems Architecture

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance

Improving AWS Performance For The Future

DZone

MARCH 31, 2020

The true power of cloud computing lies in the way it can be optimized for maximum performance and efficiency. While it wasn’t always possible to run an efficient environment while maximizing performance with on-premise servers and data centers, cloud clusters are particularly flexible in this respect.

AWS

AWS Performance Efficiency Scalability

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database

Announcing the Availability of Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.0

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

To make sure that Percona Backup for MongoDB answers the pains of our customers, we took the common denominator of the pains that anyone using snapshot capabilities faces when performing backups and restores and positioned PBM as the open source, freely available answer to those pains.

Availability

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage

Ensure Ideal Performance and Access for All Your Customers, Everywhere [Webinar Sign-up]

DZone

JULY 19, 2021

Many applications are deployed across multiple regions so they can meet customers where they are and/or ensure availability. We want to make scale, availability and low latency access to data as easy as possible for everyone, and it’s all about where your data lives.

Latency

Latency Database Performance Availability

AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads

InfoQ

AUGUST 3, 2023

AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.

AWS

AWS Availability Scalability Infrastructure

Client-Side Performance Testing

DZone

JANUARY 14, 2020

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Performance Testing Open Source

Dynatrace ranked No. 1 for the Security Operations Use Case in the 2023 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability report

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability, Gartner has named Dynatrace a Leader and positioned it highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. Although implementations are nascent, the security capabilities of APM and observability tools have proved to be valuable.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance Analytics DevOps

In-house Tool for Performance Testing

DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There are many tools available in this space for testing such as Junit, Jmeter, manual, automation, and many performance testing tools. In the software development cycle, testing is one of the important criteria. Some of these tools are third-party tools and have a cost-heavy license for the company to manage.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools

General availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for AIX

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. Monitoring IBM Power Systems isn’t a simple task, due to its specific architecture, there aren’t many tools available on the market. The ones that are available are old generation. Dynatrace news.

Availability

Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System

Partitioned Namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium Are Now Generally Available

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of partitioned namespaces feature for Azure Service Bus, which allows customers to use partitioning for the premium messaging tier. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Azure

Azure Availability Design Scalability

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