DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 205

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. What characterizes a weak SLO? Use the default transformation.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 218

DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

This self-hosted graph routing solution is highly configurable, making it an ideal choice for developers who require a high-performance routing system. With its ability to handle large amounts of traffic and complex data, the Apollo router is quickly becoming a popular choice among developers seeking a reliable and efficient routing solution.

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Monitoring Performance Traffic Efficiency 245

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Teams can then act before attackers have the chance to compromise key data or bring down critical systems. This data helps teams see where attacks began, which systems were targeted, and what techniques attackers used.

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Analytics Network Hardware Open Source 157

DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the rise of microservices and cloud-native applications, Jaeger has become a crucial tool for developers and system administrators to gain insights into the performance and behavior of their applications.

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Performance Storage Traffic Programming 173

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage. It's midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times, currently serving as the "situation room."

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Data Engineering Engineering Traffic Systems 182

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Zero trust (ZT) mandates never trusting—but always verifying—any actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter, according to the OMB memo. Teams verify “anything and everything” that might attempt to gain access while enforcing least privilege.

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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. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. Step 1: Understand Traffic Patterns and Potential Spikes; Remove Team Silos. The impact of traffic spikes is illustrated by the load that eCommerce web sites typically see during Black Friday. The next step is to understand when your system is going to break.

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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 203

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

Through load testing , businesses may determine how well their system performs under typical and predicted peak loads, ensuring that it can withstand the demands of actual usage. E-commerce platforms , online services, and apps that suffer large traffic volumes or seasonal surges in user activity need to perform load testing more than others.

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Testing Traffic Systems Performance 130

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance. Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application.

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Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 230

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Linux System Mining with Python ( Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community). A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators ( Hacker News). History of Lisp ( Hacker News). A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News).

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Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 229

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 23, 2024

Given how slow the system is, installing this package could take several minutes. Since the server owners are now in the SRE chatroom to help with the outage, you ask: "how do you install system packages? " Maybe this system is too slow with the performance issue? "Linux Crisis Tools" in SysPerf 2.)

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Servers Traffic Network Systems 145

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 216

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The top 1000 channels from each service are analysed using a custom-built crawling engine, and traffic is intercepted where possible using mitmproxy. Where possible the authors use mitmproxy to intercept traffic from the devices. How they did it. This enables monitoring of the device outputs (audio, video, and network). The last word.

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Systems Traffic Internet Internet 104

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organisation is involved in achieving APRA compliance, you are likely facing the daunting effort of de-risking critical system delivery. Moreover, for banking organisations, there is a good chance some of those systems are outdated. And when a system breaks, AI-enabled platforms like these find the issue in seconds.

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Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 214

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Traffic Strategy Retail Ecommerce 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Malicious attackers have gotten increasingly better at identifying vulnerabilities and launching zero-day attacks to exploit these weak points in IT systems. A zero-day exploit is a technique an attacker uses to take advantage of an organization’s vulnerability and gain access to its systems.

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Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 182

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 29, 2024

Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. The goal is to either improve or restore the system to its optimally functioning state. If successful, the system closes the loop and notifies teams.

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Best Practices DevOps Energy Innovation 185

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you are running a distributed system where each request talks to more than a couple of services, databases, and a queuing system, pinpointing the cause of an issue is not a trivial affair. There are a plethora of tools aiming to solve this problem to various degrees.

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Strategy Traffic Database Systems 100

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. Let’s shift our focus to the backend systems and business processes, the behind-the-scenes heroes of end-to-end customer experience. (Though the three-second rule for page load time is often misinterpreted). Technology to the rescue?

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Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 195

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

Testing is a best-case scenario to validate the system's correctness. The fun fact is – testing in production helps you test the code changes on live user traffic, catch the bugs early, and deliver a robust solution that increases customer satisfaction. But, it doesn't predict the failure cases that may occur in production.

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Testing Traffic Engineering Code 113

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. With observability, you can get a better understanding of how your systems behave and what they do, especially in case of errors. Why should I adopt observability?

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 174

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. In the realm of transportation, AI is driving advancements in autonomous vehicles and optimizing traffic flow.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns. Inconsistent performance.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 161

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load.

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Java Traffic Government Code 216

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e.,

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions. Media p erformance .

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 209

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. For example, performance degradations, improper functionality, or lack of availability (that is, problems that represent anomalies in baseline system performance). What is VPC Flow Logs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 211