DZone

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Through the course of this text, I will share more information on this theorem and why it is important. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll also know why CAP may not be enough for modern-day systems. It is one of the most important laws currently in existence.

Network 237

Network Systems Availability 237

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. Early courses covered only the DTrace language, and expected students to figure out what to do with it.

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting tool kit that enables you to hit the ground running with discovering, collecting, and querying your observability today. Dive right into a free, online, self-paced, hands-on workshop introducing you to Prometheus.

Open Source 255

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Design 255

Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2024

AI and DevOps, of course The C suite is also betting on certain technology trends to drive the next chapter of digital transformation: artificial intelligence and DevOps. And of course, these goals overlap with the objectives of digital transformation, including product innovation, cost optimization, and risk mitigation.

C++ 187

C++ Artificial Intelligence DevOps Innovation 187

DZone

JANUARY 4, 2022

As working on such an operation needs a precise system that can aid the ultimate goal of performance, functionality, and of course a pleasing user response. This is why most newbies entering the industry tend to find automated functional testing a complex operation.

Software 273

Software Software Testing Strategy 273

DZone

JUNE 16, 2023

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting tool kit that enables you to hit the ground running with discovering, collecting, and querying your observability today. Dive right into a free, online, self-paced, hands-on workshop introducing you to Prometheus.

Metrics 177

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Design 177

DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Such a gigantic log analysis system is part of their cybersecurity management. For the need of real-time monitoring, threat tracing, and alerting, they require a log analytic system that can automatically collect, store, analyze, and visualize logs and event records.

Analytics 124

Analytics Storage Architecture Scalability 124

Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Then, of course, great online free courses (these two are for MongoDB 3.6 – not covering the latest features; updated versions should be released soon): M201 MongoDB Performance course. M312 Diagnostic and Debugging course. (I Some good videos on the topic: Solving MongoDB Performance Riddles with Systems Thinking.

Performance 200

Performance IoT Education Best Practices 200

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability]. It's already listed on Amazon.com.

Systems 52

Systems Cloud Performance Tuning 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability]. It's already listed on Amazon.com.

Systems 52

Systems Cloud Performance Tuning 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

Monitoring 214

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 214

Particular Software

APRIL 27, 2020

Schools and universities have had to adapt to a remote environment while companies such as Pluralsight have stepped up and offered online courses for free or at a discount. We’ve certainly been affected by this shift at Particular with the cancellation of our popular Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) course this year.

Transportation 52

Transportation Systems Education Software Architecture 52

The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

Systems 71

Systems Design Google Servers 71

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Aligning superhuman AI with human behavior: chess as a model system , McIlroy-Young et al., Neither Stockfish nor Leela were designed to match human moves of course, they were just built to play the strongest chess possible. This could be an important factor for many systems. KDD’20. How human-like is superhuman AI?

Systems 85

Systems Games Engineering Open Source 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

IT modernization improves public health services at state human services agencies For many organizations, the pandemic was a crash course in IT modernization as agencies scrambled to meet the community’s needs as details unfolded. The costs and challenges of technical debt Retaining older systems brings both direct and indirect costs.

Government 206

Government Infrastructure Programming Cloud 206

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. These events serve as logical operators that dictate the course of the release process.

Engineering 229

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 229

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

According to Dynatrace research, 89% of CIOs said digital transformation accelerated over the course of 2020 , and 58% predicted it will continue to speed up. This shift often requires more frequent software releases with built-in measures that ensure a strong digital immune system. The five elements of digital immunity. Observability.

Software 198

Software Software Artificial Intelligence DevOps 198

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While many large-scale environments use OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) as their Kubernetes distribution of choice, teams typically still lack intelligent observability and centralized alerting despite the monitoring system included with the platform. Of course this extension also comes with preconfigured alerts. What’s next?

Availability 171

Availability Best Practices Infrastructure Monitoring 171

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. Early courses covered only the DTrace language, and expected students to figure out what to do with it.

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

She has held positions at Citrix Systems, GitHub, and most recently, VMware. Then after being introduced to the “World Wide Web” and new types of businesses and marketing opportunities, she shifted her career course to focus on technology. At the outset of her career, she worked in consumer products in Southern California.

Artificial Intelligence 266

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology Strategy 266

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If we published someone’s currency conversion software in a book or training course and our language model reproduces it in response to a question, we can attribute that to the original source and allocate royalties appropriately. Ask this course, expected to go into beta in the first half of 2024 Footnotes 1.

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 101

Percona

JUNE 14, 2023

The database is performance-critical software; you must use the most high-performance operating system concepts to get the best performance possible. So is it time to bite the bullet and make PostgreSQL multi-threaded?

Architecture 132

Architecture Operating System Database Processing 132

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

You might optimize your cooling system or move your data center to a colder region with reduced cooling demands. Of course, you need to balance these opportunities with the business goals of the applications served by these hosts. Next, we consider possible energy savings in the data center.

Cloud 211

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 211

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Working within the time budget introduces an extra resource constraint for the recommender system. It is important to point out that the user’s time budget, like their preferences, may not be directly observable and the recommender system may have to learn that in addition to the user’s latent preferences.

Metrics 178

Metrics Systems Architecture Processing 178

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.

Performance Testing 243

Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools 243

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval Nelson et al., Serval is a framework for developing automated verifiers of systems software. Prior work has demonstrated symbolic evaluation for specific systems, but Serval introduces a general purpose approach of reusable and interoperable verifiers.

Code 45

Code Systems Programming Google 45

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. This, of course, positions privacy as a luxury good… Finding apps that leak data. USENIX Security Symposium 2019.

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Here are a few critical ways in which it differs from replication: You can control how frequently the destination system syncs from source – once a week, once a day, or even less frequently.

Analytics 185

Analytics Storage Database Systems 185

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As you’re planning your operating system and application strategies, we want to ensure that Percona software is available where you need it. You can also, of course, run Percona Server for MongoDB in a Docker container as well. Have questions, comments, observations, or need help?

Servers 90

Servers Operating System Strategy Software 90

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. For most enterprises, using a RASP solution would mean running multiple agents on their production systems, potentially creating risk due to incompatibilities. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic.

Traffic 235

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 235

Sutter's Mill

JUNE 10, 2010

I forgot to blog about this until now because of focusing on the Effective Concurrency course in Stockholm a few weeks ago, but to answer those who wonder if I’ll be giving it again in North America too: Yes, I’m also giving the public Effective Concurrency course again at the end of this month at the Construx facility in Bellevue, WA, USA.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Cache Architecture 40

Particular Software

JUNE 28, 2021

From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. Consider for a moment a software system for a hospital emergency room. Thus, in the hospital ER system, birthdate is a nullable field.

Network 98

Network Java Google Design 98

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

Generative AI can generate tests, of course—at least it can generate unit tests, which are fairly simple. Integration tests (tests of multiple modules) and acceptance tests (tests of entire systems) are more difficult. Security is yet another issue: is an AI system able to red-team an application? Of stepped reward systems.

Games 77

Games Programming Testing Code 77

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Computer Electronics” and “Technology” appear to be the most popular course categories among edX students. I went to design communities on Facebook and LinkedIn, looking for students of online courses, asking them to answer some of my quick questions. Jump to online workshops ?. Audit Structure.

Education 83

Education Website Google Design 83

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 1, 2023

Security vulnerabilities can easily creep into IT systems and create costly risks. It’s important to focus on having good hygiene, having a good patching regimen, having a good security policy over the course of time, and finally, good governance.” Technologies such as observability in fact create value.

Strategy 215

Strategy Cloud Software Software 215