DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments. When traffic to a website or application increases, HAProxy can seamlessly bring more servers online to handle the load.

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TechBeacon Testing

JULY 20, 2020

This year's Amazon Prime Day may be delayed (reportedly until August or September), but when it does arrive, it is certain to bring with it the usual flood of web traffic from hungry shoppers looking for killer deals.

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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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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

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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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DZone

JULY 8, 2023

Envoy proxy, the data plane of Istio service mesh, is used for handling east-west traffic ( service-to-service communication within a data center). However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers).

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DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

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DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

It simplifies configuration and management, offering powerful tools to handle traffic flows between services, enforce policies, and aggregate telemetry data, all without requiring changes to microservice code. Introduction to Istio Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In simple terms, a Load Balancer is like the traffic cop of the internet. Distributing incoming web traffic among multiple servers. Hey there, I'm Roman, a Cloud Architect at Gart with over 15 years of experience. Today, I want to delve into the world of Load Balancers with you. Its main gig?

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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

Under a heavy load, the application could break if the traffic routing, load balancing, etc., In this blog post, we will discuss the open-source service mesh Kuma, its architecture, and its easy-to-implement policies like traffic control, metrics, circuit breaking, etc. were not optimized. This led to the growth of service mesh.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience. These proxies act as vigilant guardians, adept at intercepting and directing incoming and outgoing traffic between services.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This process may involve behavioral analytics; real-time monitoring of network traffic, user activity, and system logs; and threat intelligence.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This ensures that a failing service doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers, preventing further strain and potential cascading failures.

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DZone

JULY 18, 2023

In canary deployments, the new version, called canary, is tested with limited live traffic at first. They cannot skip testing a release for the sake of adhering to continuous delivery practices, can they?

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said. What has been happening on the network when apps experience issues?

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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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Apica

MARCH 28, 2019

The post Are Your Business Applications Dealing with a Traffic Jam? With Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 just behind us it is clear that most, if not all conversation were about Read More. Get Unstuck Today! appeared first on Apica.

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Apica

MARCH 28, 2019

The post Are Your Business Applications Dealing with a Traffic Jam? With Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 just behind us it is clear that most, if not all conversation were about Read More. Get Unstuck Today! appeared first on Apica.

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Traffic Mobile Monitoring Cloud 40

DZone

JANUARY 21, 2024

Even retail giants like Amazon have faced customer dissatisfaction during events like Prime Day when the website couldn't handle the traffic. Similarly, numerous instances of customer backlash during major shopping events have highlighted the urgency for effective solutions in managing fluctuating workloads.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In this article, we will look at two types of load balancers: one used to expose Kubernetes services to the external world and another used by engineers to balance network traffic loads to those services. Keep reading to get proven best practices for dealing with a Kubernetes load balancer.

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Statista shares insightful data on mobile web traffic that accounts for more than 50% globally from 1st quarter 2015 to 3rd quarter 2020. This increase in web traffic from mobile users comes with an expectation.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Improved availability: Caching can help maintain service availability during high-traffic periods or in case of temporary server failures by serving content from the cache.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How do you make Jaeger even more effective for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed applications, especially in high-traffic, demanding environments where a high-performance storage solution is critical? Use the best-performing Jaeger storage backend that you can find.

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DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

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. This self-hosted graph routing solution is highly configurable, making it an ideal choice for developers who require a high-performance routing system.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic This SLO measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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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.

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DZone

MAY 26, 2021

Let us consider two scenarios where website traffic may increase: The goal of this kind of testing is to measure the error handling capabilities of the software to ensure that it does not crash under extremely heavy load conditions.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

This leads to an increasing number of users coming online to use these services, leading to a surge in traffic on websites and web applications. there was a massive influx of traffic and interest from people all around the world. For instance, after the announcement of ChatGPT 3.5,

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh. Why do you need a service mesh?

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2023

With the network getting abstracted from the application logic using sidecars, security and traffic management will be easy to manage from a central location. These sidecars are used to facilitate service-to-service communication among the applications stack.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. In this case, the four golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) are derived from span attributes and DQL metric queries via Dynatrace Grail™.

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