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Synthetic monitoring of internal applications extended to Windows-based ActiveGates!

Dynatrace

Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ). Compliance with hardware requirements. So stay tuned for more news about: Cluster-wide locations for Dynatrace Managed. What you need to start synthetic monitoring with Windows ActiveGates. A synthetic-enabled environment ActiveGate: ActiveGate version 1.173+.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization.

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Software-defined far memory in warehouse scale computers

The Morning Paper

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. ML-based auto-tuning. The far memory system has been deployed in production since 2016.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Alex Podelko

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

While hardware such as intelligent SANs, Solid State Disk, and other advancements have helped speed things up, wasted space in index can translate to wasted space in the buffer pool as well as wasting more I/O. SQL Server Database Maintenance plans prior to SQL Server 2016 only allowed to rebuild or reorganize all indexes.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

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Using Parallel Query with Amazon Aurora for MySQL

Percona

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. In all versions of MySQL – at least at the time of writing – when you run a single query it will run in one thread, effectively utilizing one CPU core only. With faster disks (i.e. sec). /* another run */.

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