DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of container orchestration, the shift from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes has become a significant trend. As organizations seek more robust, scalable, and reliable solutions for deploying and managing containerized applications , Kubernetes emerges as the clear frontrunner. This article delves into the nuances of transitioning from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, focusing on best practices, strategic considerations, and the scaling advantages Kubernetes offers.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“Engineers today lack an easy way to track the tokens and prompt usage of their LLM applications in production. By using OpenLLMetry and Dynatrace, anyone can get complete visibility into their system, including gen-AI parts with 5 minutes of work.” Nir Gazit, CEO and Co-Founder Traceloop Why AI model observability matters The adoption of LLMs has surged across various industries, particularly since the introduction of OpenAI’s GPT model.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). In this blog post, we’ll transition to the next pipeline stage, the Deploy stage, and examine the visibility advantages that Dynatrace provides during this critical phase.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

by Aditya Mavlankar , Zhi Li , Lukáš Krasula and Christos Bampis High dynamic range ( HDR ) video brings a wider range of luminance and a wider gamut of colors, paving the way for a stunning viewing experience. Separately, our invention of Dynamically Optimized ( DO ) encoding helps achieve optimized bitrate-quality tradeoffs depending on the complexity of the content.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The coming years will be filled with innovation in areas designed to democratize access to technology and help us keep up with the increasing pace of every-day life -- and it starts with Generative AI.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Earlier this year, Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is no longer an experimental metric. INP will replace First Input Delay (FID) as a Core Web Vital in March of 2024. Now that INP has arrived to dethrone FID as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals, we've turned our eye to scrutinizing its effectiveness. In this post, we'll look at real-world data and attempt to answer: What correlation – if any – does INP have with actual user behavior and business metri

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DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Now that we have understood the importance of cost models and how to create and refine cost models, it's time to start to optimize our workload components. Any workload deployment and architecture contains the key components that are depicted in the architecture diagram given below. All the layers of the architecture provide opportunities for cost optimization.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Almost everybody’s played with ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, GitHub Copilot, or Midjourney. A few have even tried out Bard or Claude, or run LLaMA 1 on their laptop. And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In Part 1 , we looked at the overview of FinOps as an evolving practice to deliver maximum value from investments in the cloud. We also discussed the challenge or the need for shifting left FinOps for better optimization of your cloud usage and cost. In part 2 of the series, we will walk you through the steps on how you go about creating the FinOps cost model for an example solution.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset. This not only reduces the cost of compute resources but also reduces the execution time in a significant manner.

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Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this post, I will present a new Percona tool: Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Dump. The PMM Dump performs a logical backup of the performance metrics collected by the PMM Server and imports them into a different PMM Server instance. PMM Dump allows you to share monitoring data collected by your PMM server securely with the Percona Support team.

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. To achieve these gains, the team had to optimize the Netty’s default HTTP2 stack to make it fit their needs.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s evolving technological landscape, the shift from monolithic architectures to microservices is a strategic move for many businesses. This is particularly relevant in the domain of reimbursement calculation systems. As I mentioned in my previous article Part 1 , let's explore how such a transition can be effectively managed. The Monolithic Challenge Imagine a scenario where you have a large-scale, monolithic system - possibly a bulky C# console application or an extensive SQL Server sto

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In the first blog post of this series , we explored how the Dynatrace ® observability and security platform boosts the reliability of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) CI/CD pipelines and enhances their ability to focus on innovation. This blog post guides you through configuring Dynatrace to automate CI/CD processes to achieve these objectives. Dynatrace observability architecture can be classified into three layers: Orchestration (Dynatrace) CI/CD toolset (Jenkins / Chef / Puppet / Bamboo, etc.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tim O’Reilly forwarded an excellent article about the OpenAI soap opera to me: Matt Levine’s “ Money Stuff: Who Controls Open AI.” I’ll skip most of it, but something caught my eye. Towards the end, Levine writes about Elon Musk’s version of Nick Bostrom’s AI that decides to turn the world to paper-clips : [Elon] Musk gave an example of an artificial intelligence that’s given the task of picking strawberries.

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Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

During an interview or while having general discussions, I have found some funny responses that can be easily classified as “Wrong Answers,” but at times, they’re thought-provoking or involve a deep meaning within. This blog is regarding some of the usual MySQL database conversations and responses, which can appear “wrong” or “funny,” but there’s actually more to them.

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Percona Community

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Last week, I embarked on the task of deploying our Percona Operator for MongoDB in Kubernetes. After completing the deployment process, I noticed that the status of the Custom Resource Definition for Percona Server for MongoDB was still displaying as ‘initializing’ and two of our Pods remained in a Pending state. edithpuclla@Ediths-MBP % kubectl get perconaservermongodbs.psmdb.percona.com -n mongodb NAME ENDPOINT STATUS AGE my-db-psmdb-db my-db-psmdb-db-mongos.mongodb.svc.cluster.

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DZone

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the era of the Internet of Things ( IoT) , the continuous influx of spatial and temporal data from interconnected devices has given rise to a vast and intricate landscape, demanding a sophisticated approach to database management. As we delve into the intricacies of this digital proliferation, the optimization of Geo-Distributed IoT database systems takes center stage.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. The first goal is to demonstrate how generative AI can bring key business value and efficiency for organizations. Second, the conference will outline some of the critical risks in using generative AI. Today’s IT organizations face unprecedented challenges. While technologies have enabled new productivity and efficiencies, customer expectations have grown exponentially, cyberthreat risks continue to mount, and the pace of busin

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic. Using a combination of automatic and manual detection of traffic spikes, the company ensures the majority of customers’s workflows execute without delays.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Encryption is the process of turning data into an unrecognizable format unless the necessary password (also known as passphrase) or decryption key is provided. This blog describes how to encrypt the pgBackRest repository. pgBackRest is the backup tool used to perform Postgres database backup, restoration, and point-in-time recovery (PITR). The repository is where pgBackRest stores backups and archives WAL segments. pgBackRest will encrypt the repository based on a user-provided password, thereby

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Percona Community

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

If you are in the world of application development, you know that every application has a lifecycle. An application lifecycle refers to the stages that our application goes through from initial planning, building, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance in different environments where our application can be executed. On the other hand, the Kubernetes Application Lifecycle refers exclusively to applications deployed and managed in Kubernetes clusters.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. In fact, this is really no different than the challenges that are inherit within a single on-premises data center implementation. Power outages and network issues are common examples of challenges that can put your service — and your business — at risk.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We have released Dynatrace version 1.280. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.280 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of partitioned namespaces feature for Azure Service Bus, which allows customers to use partitioning for the premium messaging tier.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Although the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore time for big datasets, it’s hard to beat snapshots in speed and efficiency. That’s why we introduced external backups (aka snapshot-based backup API) in PBM 2.2.0 The idea came from the requests to bring EBS snapshots into PBM.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

From HammerDB v4.9 it is possible to deploy HammerDB through a web browser, giving you access to a fully functional HammerDB GUI in Cloud environments. The quickest way to run HammerDB with CloudTk is through Docker and in this post will we demonstrate how to pull the HammerDB CloudTK Docker image and run it to start running HammerDB through your chosen browser.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With its ability to scale, be flexible, and be cost-effective, cloud computing has completely changed how businesses operate. However, it can be difficult to manage and keep an eye on the intricate infrastructure of cloud environments. Tools for monitoring the cloud in this situation are useful. With the help of these potent tools, businesses can monitor the performance, availability, and security of their cloud resources in real-time.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use. This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance.

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Earlier this year, when Google announced that Interaction to Next Paint (INP) will replace First Input Delay (FID) as the responsiveness metric in Core Web Vitals in *gulp* March of 2024, we had a lot to say about it. (TLDR: FID doesn't correlate with real user behavior, so we don't endorse it as a meaningful metric.) Our stance hasn't changed much since then.

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Percona

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The PostgreSQL partition manager pg_partman is an open source extension widely supported and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. pg_partman is an extension that streamlines the creation and management of table partition sets, supporting both time-based and serial-based partitioning approaches. You can use pg_partman to automate and create partitions by breaking large tables into smaller partitions, thereby enhancing performance.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You’ll require the knowledge of creating a new website to avoid the hassle of learning. You may have to put off learning web development and design. The news is positive. You can make a great website without coding or advanced web design skills. A website builder is an alternative. Anyone can use a good website builder, even if they don’t know web design.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Did you know that email Send Time Optimization (STO) can improve the open rate by up to 93%? Awesome! Or it might only be 10%. A slightly more credible case study claims that message delivery at the right time resulted in an open rate of 55%, a click rate of 30%, and a conversion rate of 13%. I’ll take that increase any day if there’s a positive ROI.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules that require all public organizations to disclose any material cybersecurity incidents that they experience. The mandate also requires that organizations disclose overall cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance. The SEC cybersecurity mandate will go into effect on December 15, 2023, and cybersecurity organizations are still figuring out how to properly prepare themselves.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Explore the essentials of Continuous Performance Testing and see how it revolutionizes software development. Learn to harness powerful tools for seamless integration and peak performance. Join us for insights on elevating your digital experience. In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, speed and efficiency aren’t just desired. The post Continuous Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services.

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