DZone

JANUARY 17, 2023

Building performant services and systems is at the core of every business. Growing organizations, in the process of upscaling their services, unintentionally introduce complexities into the system. Tons of technologies emerge daily, promising capabilities that help you surpass your performance benchmarks.

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DZone

MARCH 27, 2023

Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing. Spark provides a unified framework for processing and analyzing large datasets across distributed computing clusters. What Is Apache Spark?

Network 177

Network Open Source Programming Design 177

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Log analytics, on the other hand, is the process of using the gathered logs to extract business or operational insight.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 191

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Quality metrics contain: The ratio of successfully processed requests. Distribution of processing time between requests. Any service provider tries to reach several metrics in their activity. One group of these metrics is service quality. Number of requests dependent curves.

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Network Hardware Metrics Processing 246

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. What is a Distributed System?

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing, decrypting, assembling/disassembling packets and HTML pages, etc.

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DZone

JUNE 6, 2023

Sometimes, it is necessary to examine the behavior of a system to determine which process has utilized its resources, such as memory or CPU time. These resources are often scarce and may not be easily replenished, making it important for the system to record its status in a file. This is atop.

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Network Monitoring Systems Processing 257

Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2024

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. NIS2 is an evolution of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Security Directive, which has been in effect since 2016.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The complex interconnections in cloud-based systems make it crucial to always have a topological overview to understand dependencies. This approach provides an immediate understanding of how entities such as hosts, processes, and their associated relationships contribute to the identified issue.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Metrics Network Monitoring 190

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Although, the upgrade process involves reinstallation of the ActiveGates that make this location or adding new ones enabled for synthetic monitoring. Q: Is there a plan to support more operating systems? Support for newer versions of these systems will be introduced as well. Can I use it for browser monitors as well?

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Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 164

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. TCP/IP connection, triggered me to write about other aspects of network impact on performance. How to detect and measure the impact There is no easy mechanism for measuring the impact of network overhead.

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Network Performance Latency Servers 63

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 221

DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is intended for data scientists, AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and advanced practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence who have a solid grounding in machine learning concepts, natural language processing , and deep learning architectures.

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Artificial Intelligence Architecture Network Engineering 258

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The OMB memo states that agencies must meet specific goals based on the five pillars of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Zero Trust Maturity Model : identity, devices, networks, applications/workloads, and data. A quick refresher: what is zero trust?

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Government Analytics Network Traffic 188

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 224

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 224

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 228

DZone

JULY 11, 2023

Artificial Intelligence: Definition and Practical Applications Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence. AI encompasses various techniques, including machine learning, natural language processing , computer vision, and robotics.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Network Transportation 109

DZone

JANUARY 11, 2024

Unlike traditional computer designs that employ von Neumann-based processors, neuromorphic chips mimic the neural network topology of the brain, allowing more efficient and adaptive computing systems.

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Architecture Network Efficiency Design 152

Dynatrace

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, the process of obtaining FedRAMP certifications is expected to become more streamlined. This new focus on cloud visibility underscores its importance in ensuring comprehensive monitoring and transparency across the network. In line with this theme of security, zero-trust frameworks will remain a top priority.

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Government Innovation Strategy Network 223

DZone

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing has emerged as a critical paradigm to process data closer to the source—IoT devices. It plays a pivotal role in ensuring that tasks are distributed effectively, resources are optimized, and the overall system operates efficiently.

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IoT Artificial Intelligence Latency Internet 195

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 211

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 211

DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

SIEM platforms streamline incident response processes, allowing security teams to respond quickly and effectively to security incidents. SIEM systems enable early detection of security threats and suspicious activities by analyzing vast amounts of log data in real time.

Storage 136

Storage Data Engineering Network Infrastructure 136

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA automates repetitive cloud operations tasks and streamlines the flow of analytics into decision-making processes.

Analytics 197

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 197

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Critical infrastructure and services refer to the systems, facilities, and assets vital for the functioning of society and the economy. This capability allows teams can detect and resolve issues to keep systems ¾ including critical infrastructure and services ¾ efficient and reliable, and citizens satisfied.

Infrastructure 218

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 218

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Pony Express, as we saw earlier, is a ground-up implementation of networking primitives. SOSP’19. Enter Google! It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience. The IT infrastructure, services, and applications that enable processes for risk management must perform optimally. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely.

Analytics 210

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology 210

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. Streaming Data Model. Optimization.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! We’ll discuss batch data processing, the limitations we faced, and how Psyberg emerged as a solution. Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? How does late-arriving data impact us?

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Data Engineering Engineering Processing Games 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

This, in turn, accelerates the need for businesses to implement the practice of software automation to improve and streamline processes. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks. Automate DevSecOps processes at scale. Application security.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 196

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail. How the system responds is then analyzed. Other tools are automated that let the tester fuzz test the system using fault injection techniques. Data-Driven Tools. Automated Tools.

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Systems Testing Software Software 81

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Effortlessly monitor your Citrix environment with Dynatrace The Citrix monitoring process now employs two methods to collect metrics and provide complete Citrix performance observability. Dynatrace collects metrics and topology information from load balancers and analyzes these critical network devices for performance and health.

Monitoring 228

Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 228

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 259

The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

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Systems Software Software Programming 98

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Last time out we looked at the real-world deployment of 5G networks and noted the affinity between 5G and edge computing. Nanosatellite systems have a GSD of around 3.0m/px. Satellites are changing!

Systems 125

Systems Latency Architecture Energy 125

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130