Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. In this post, we will discuss some important kernel parameters that can affect database server performance and how these should be tuned. PostgreSQL uses System V (SysV) that requires SHMMAX setting.

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Tuning Database Servers Processing 54

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Topology definition and entity extraction rules. documentation.

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Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 222

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

What if we could use machine learning and computer vision to support our creative team in this process? Since we want to ensure that our testing framework allows for maximum creative freedom, and avoid any interruption to the design process, we decided to try an alternative approach.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. By Andrei U.,

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. The goal is to store and manage all configurations in a version control system such as Git.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. Your next challenge is ensuring your DevOps processes, pipelines, and tooling meet the intended goal.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. With that said, each new major version, by definition, introduces enough big changes to require a certain amount of precaution. on your radar.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

How do our users tell us which portion and, even more critically, given that the portion of the graph of interest will almost definitely span data exposed by many services, how do we keep the index current with all these various services? The federated gateway, in turn, fetches data from the Studio applications.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There are several benefits of such optimizations like saving on storage, faster query time, cheaper downstream processing, and an increase in developer productivity by removing additional ETLs written only for query performance improvement. Use cases We found several use cases where a system like AutoOptimize can bring tons of value.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate more processes and testing throughout the software delivery life cycle (SDLC).

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 196

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

For years, enterprises managed observability data on a team-by-team basis , using a combination of ticketing systems and configuration management tools. From here we jump directly into Dynatrace Distributed traces view, shown below, to understand code-level contributions to total processing time. A look to the future.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Try it today!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Scale and automate SRE into your delivery processes with Dynatrace. Note : We will soon improve the drill-downs to Davis problems directly from existing SLO definitions so that SRE teams can benefit more from the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Read more: Google’s definition of the term Site Reliability Engineering.

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Metrics Engineering Google Monitoring 154

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! Who's Hiring?

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Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

The obvious impact of this is that in the event of a master failure, the slave will not be up-to-date as its SQL thread is still processing the events in the relay log. This will delay the failover process as our framework expects the slave to be fully up-to-date before it can be promoted. slave_preserve_commit_order = 1.

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Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many changes and new features are brought to the system, and as part of keeping in tune with the changes and how they can impact us, we go through the changes to better understand them. The dynamic allocation might have flaws, but it’s definitely a good addition. From that, this article is born.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Good examples are: ETL processes for data archiving, reporting, data consolidation and so on. MySQL package installers for Linux systems should set this capability. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. It is possible to do more tuning in the case that ETL is too compromised. Will this work?

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Those parameters taken from the specific data directory initialization, which overrides the built-in parameters, can be checked like this: select name,setting from pg_settings where source='override'; This override includes some of the calculated auto-tune values for that environment. cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-14.service.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

You are designing a learning system to forecast Service Level Agreement (SLA) violations and would want to factor in all upstream dependencies and corresponding historical states. Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

Configurations such as dashboards, alerting rules and Service Level Objective definitions are left to be created separately, and often manually. They will adopt your monitoring self-service platform instead of building a custom monitoring solution that fits into their development process and mindset. Identifiers are great!

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Open Source Code Monitoring Azure 140

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In particular, it’s our job to design and build the systems and protocols that enable customers from all over the world to sign up for Netflix with the plan features and incentives that best suit their needs. Introduction and account creation Highlight our value propositions and begin the account creation process.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. Traditionally monitoring was on the system level.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. The key to an efficient system is the identification of cold pages: the cold age threshold determines how many seconds we can go without a page being accessed before it is declared cold. ML-based auto-tuning.

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Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. Next is the table definition. Index Scan It might be the scan method you think about when hearing something like, “Hey, this query is doing good; it uses the index… ” This method is the basic definition of accessing the data by an index.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There seems to be broad agreement that hyperautomation is the combination of Robotic Process Automation with AI. We’ll see it in the processing of the thousands of documents businesses handle every day. We can certainly apply the slogan to many, if not all, clerical tasks–and even to the automation process itself.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You’ll try this with a few other algorithms, and their respective tuning parameters–maybe even break out TensorFlow to build a custom neural net along the way–and the winning model will be the one that heads to production. The second is the experienced ML professional who really knows how to build and tune models.

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Tuning Open Source AWS Software 128

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

You’ll learn how to implement lazy loading, image processing and consolidation, delivery, and how to create an image workflow. Definitely a must read for whoever is interested in web performance! Developers and System Administrators alike will find incredible information between the covers. – Aurel V.

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Apica

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This state of mastery and flow is definitely relevant to how we build and test modern applications, which involve interconnected movements of front-end design processes, distributed services, and back-end data repositories, all orchestrated to meet customer requirements at scale. Use cases: From slow advertising to nonstop carnage.

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Testing DevOps Monitoring Media 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. and partners) and in the process, stifling the upstarts, the truly open source little folks dreaming big. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 80

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Users and Nonusers AI adoption is in the process of becoming widespread, but it’s still not universal. Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. Automating the process of building complex prompts has become common, with patterns like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tools like LangChain.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Agile development eliminates the main problem of tradition development: you need to have a working system before you may test it, so performance testing happened at the last moment. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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