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Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

Dynatrace

Such frameworks support software engineers in building highly scalable and efficient applications that process continuous data streams of massive volume. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively.

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Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% After Switching to XFS

InfoQ

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%

InfoQ

LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. By Rafal Gancarz

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. Logging is selective to cases where the old and new responses do not match.

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Discord Scales to 1 Million+ Online MidJourney Users in a Single Server

InfoQ

The company evolved the guild component, which is responsible for fanning out billions of message notifications, in a series of performance and scalability improvements supported by system observability and performance tuning. By Rafal Gancarz

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Best Practices for a Seamless MongoDB Upgrade

Percona

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Sharded time-series collections for improved scalability and performance. Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience? x: Live resharding of databases for uninterrupted sharded key changes.