Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 221

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 221

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss. It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. When it comes to logs and metrics, the Dynatrace platform provides direct access to the log content of all mission-critical processes. What is VPC Flow Logs. Why Dynatrace? This includes Transit Gateway. Log Events.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 223

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. Data visualization : how to present, explore and interpret observability data from serverless functions intuitively, clearly, and holistically?

Serverless 213

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 213

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. It’s easy to modify and adjust these dashboards as required, select the most important metrics, or just change the splitting of charts when too much data is presented.

Metrics 245

Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. predict and prevent security breaches and outages.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. What is Edgar?

Latency 296

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Usage reduction is a continuous process. How to remove bloat?

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 52

Cache Traffic Games Network 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Commonly applied to development processes, technical debt accrues overtime when we choose an inefficient path of least resistance. Zittrain points out that they “traffic in byzantine patterns with predictive utility, not neat articulations of relationships between cause and effect.” What does intellectual debt look like?

Artificial Intelligence 151

Artificial Intelligence Traffic Efficiency Innovation 151

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically we have been responsible for connecting, routing, and steering internet traffic from Netflix subscribers to services in the cloud. We were under pressure to improve our adoption numbers and decided to focus first on the setup friction by improving the developer experience and automating the onboarding process.

Internet 220

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 220

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request. Snappy is a compression library developed by Google.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDN’s Effectiveness: Static Vs Dynamic ContentBack in the day, a CDN’s primary function revolved around caching static content and delivering it efficiently to end-users. Today, 40% of the online traffic is made up of dynamic content, CDN also did their part of the effort to adopt this new reality.

Cache 40

Cache Traffic Games Network 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. This is it.

Traffic 121

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hot backups vs. cold backups: A hot backup — used to minimize downtime and ensure data availability for critical applications — allows you to create a copy of a database while the system is still actively serving user requests and processing transactions. In a cold backup, the database is taken offline.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license. A reduced resource footprint also makes migrating to a public cloud more cost-efficient.

Cache 201

Cache Architecture Database Government 201

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc.,

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Please note that these are presented as general best practices.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Its goal is to assign running processes to time slices of the CPU in a “fair” way. Instead, what if we reduced the frequency of interventions (to every few seconds) but made better data-driven decisions regarding the allocation of processes to compute resources in order to minimize collocation noise? So why mess with it?

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this talk, Kinjal used the example of the LinkedIn Feed, to demonstrate how they use bandit algorithms to solve for the optimal parameter selection problem efficiently. The key insight was that by assuming a latent Gaussian Process (GP) prior on the key business metric actions like viral engagement, job applications, etc.,

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a result, e xisting application security approaches can’t keep up with this speed and vari ability of modern development processes. . With DevSecOps processes having shifted security testing “left”, will the teams have enough time to manually analyze, assess, and manage risks based on sampled or scheduled scan results?

Cloud 294

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 294

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

COM201 Being ethical in tech: Sustainability tips for work and life — no video, but here is a video of Aerin Booth presenting an earlier version of the talk. This is the AWS Professional Services built tooling that customers can use to track the carbon footprint of their operations and processes, along with a customer example.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Based on what Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, presented at re:Invent 2018, it seems that the majority is moving their workloads to AWS: These stats tell us that there are a lot of Microsoft related workloads in the public cloud that can be optimized! Are they receiving traffic? #3: Dynatrace news.

AWS 127

AWS Best Practices Database Traffic 127

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” Moving beyond point estimates is very close to present-day AI challenges.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52