Presentation: Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale
InfoQ
APRIL 12, 2024
Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue
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InfoQ
APRIL 12, 2024
Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue
Dynatrace
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Kubernetes has undeniably become widely adopted as an effective solution for deploying applications, offering an abundance of features for optimizing releases and scaling workloads. The Dynatrace platform automatically identifies and monitors all newly spawned containers, capturing essential data and metrics at scale.
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Dynatrace
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When it comes to platform engineering, not only does observability play a vital role in the success of organizations’ transformation journeys—it’s key to successful platform engineering initiatives. The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle.
The Netflix TechBlog
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Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. Auto Remediation generates recommendations by considering both performance (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.
Dynatrace
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Today’s organizations flock to multicloud environments for myriad reasons, including increased scalability, agility, and performance. Grail handles data storage, data management, and processes data at massive speed, scale, and cost efficiency,” Singh said.
Dynatrace
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Successful deployments of cloud-native workloads at the edge help to reduce costs, boost performance, and improve customer experience. As organizations see an increasingly high number of compute locations, assessing health and finding root causes of emerging problems across heavily distributed workloads, at scale, has become a daunting task.
Dynatrace
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Dynatrace
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From generating new code and boosting developer productivity to finding the root cause of performance issues with ease, the benefits of AI are numerous. Performance analytics Dynatrace hypermodal AI empowers development teams to dig deep into database statements and remediate issues quickly. The first risk is not adopting AI at all.
Dynatrace
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While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.
Scalegrid
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The public cloud’s ability to scale efficiently enables ‘cloudbursting’ when demand spikes without requiring businesses to overprovision their own infrastructures. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.
Dynatrace
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As a Network Engineer, you need to ensure the operational functionality, availability, efficiency, backup/recovery, and security of your company’s network. With the new extension framework, thanks to our API-first approach, there are no operations to be performed in the web UI. Events and alerts. SNMP observability.
Dynatrace
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As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing.
Dynatrace
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For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. Logs assist operations, security, and development teams in ensuring the reliability and performance of application environments. In most data storage models, indexing engines enable faster access to query logs.
Scalegrid
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Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.
The Netflix TechBlog
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Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database.
Dynatrace
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Dynatrace
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When it comes to site reliability engineering (SRE) initiatives adopting DevOps practices, developers and operations teams frequently find themselves at odds with one another. The process is error-prone, manual, and doesn’t scale. Dynatrace news. Developers want to write high-quality code and deploy it quickly.
The Netflix TechBlog
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By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. It also becomes inefficient as the data scale increases.
Dynatrace
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Monitoring myriad tools and the accompanying data silos make it increasingly difficult for enterprises to optimize application performance and availability. Making waves was the theme of this year’s Perform conference. For the latest news and insights from the Dynatrace Perform 2024 conference, check out our guide.
Dynatrace
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Today, delivering data to Kinesis Data Firehose — a real-time streaming mechanism that scales and delivers rich data to a Dynatrace instance — gives IT pros access to additional contextual data for your environments. In a hybrid cloud ecosystem, digital assets can reside anywhere in the cloud and on premises. Why Dynatrace?
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Across both his day one and day two mainstage presentations, Steve Tack, SVP of Product Management, described some of the investments we’re making to continue to differentiate the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. This drives precise answers in real-time about performance issues and anomalies across the full stack.
Dynatrace
JANUARY 16, 2023
The rapid adoption is driven—and challenged by—an ever-growing ecosystem of Kubernetes technologies that add advanced platform features, such as security, microservice communications, observability, scaling, resource utilization, and so on. This Kubernetes survey shows how organizations actually use Kubernetes in production.
The Netflix TechBlog
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
This allows us to present the content exactly as creatively envisioned on devices and plans which support such high resolution and frame-rate playback. The Client and UI Engineering team built a certification test with these streams to analyze both the device logs as well as the pictures rendered on the screen. Some titles (e.g.,
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.
Dynatrace
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Constantly monitoring infrastructure health state and making ongoing optimizations are essential for Ops teams, SREs (site-reliability engineers), and IT admins. Simplified data analysis presented in topological context. Monitor Cisco and any other devices. Are users able to reach my applications?” ” What’s next.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Ensuring observability across these environments requires access to data at a massive scale. With the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL), teams can perform these analyses by asking questions that weren’t possible in the past. The same data model fuels Davis, the causational AI engine at the core of the Dynatrace platform.
Scalegrid
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.
Scalegrid
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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. One interesting trend that is currently emerging at a large scale involves the deployment of identical workloads across different parties or organizations.
Dynatrace
MAY 6, 2021
At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace lead data scientist Thomas Natschläger gave a deep dive into the Dynatrace AI engine, Davis. The underlying assumption of the Davis AI engine is that not every one of these individual metrics, timeseries, and unexpected fluctuations are important. So, how can Davis handle this problem?
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 5, 2019
Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.
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. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
The Netflix TechBlog
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Dynatrace
MAY 31, 2021
Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges.
Dynatrace
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Here, we’ll discuss the AIOps landscape as it stands today and present an alternative approach that truly integrates artificial intelligence into the DevOps process. These systems are often difficult to scale because the underlying ML engine doesn’t provide continuous, real-time insight into the precise root cause of issues.
Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
As a guest keynote speaker at Dynatrace Perform 2022 , Tegmark set the stage for AI as the ultimate technology for game-changers. But at the scale of AGI, a reactive trial-and-error approach can be costly and potentially catastrophic. billion years of cosmic history and the potential of the human race to influence the next 13.8
Alex Podelko
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Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM. Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering.
Dynatrace
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At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Catanoso, acting director of cloud and edge solutions at the U.S. As a result, VA had to rapidly scale its on-premises Citrix environment. ” Since then, VA solved many cloud performance problems and kept its complex hybrid environment running without interrupting remote work.
The Netflix TechBlog
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The Netflix TechBlog
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Dynatrace
JUNE 10, 2020
Having been named as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner APM Magic Quadrant for the 10 th consecutive time proves that Dynatrace is the best-of-breed application performance monitoring tool available. Our Davis AI causation engine can easily detect root causes that are related to service slowdowns or increases in failures.
The Netflix TechBlog
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Dynatrace
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As a guest keynote speaker at Dynatrace Perform 2022 , Tegmark set the stage for AI as the ultimate technology for game-changers. But at the scale of AGI, a reactive trial-and-error approach can be costly and potentially catastrophic. billion years of cosmic history and the potential of the human race to influence the next 13.8
The Netflix TechBlog
AUGUST 28, 2020
In this blog post, we present benefits of applying the above-mentioned optimizations to standard dynamic range (SDR) 10-bit and 4K streams (some titles are also HFR). The encodes are decoded and scaled to a 4K canvas prior to extracting the cutouts. The 8-bit stream profiles go up to 1080p resolution.
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