2020, Architecture, Database and Infrastructure

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. The Greenplum Architecture. The Greenplum Architecture.

Big Data

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

OpenTelemetry demo application architecture diagram. Dynatrace has supported OpenTelemetry since 2020. Both methods ingest data, but by using the Dynatrace OneAgent, users can automatically discover additional insights about their infrastructure, applications, processes, services and databases. git clone [link].

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Tuning Technology

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry reference architecture. Capturing data is critical to understanding how your applications and infrastructure are performing at any given time. Metrics originate from several sources including infrastructure, hosts, and third-party sources. Source: OpenTelemetry Documentation. What is telemetry data? Span ingestion.

Open Source

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation

MongoDB Security: Top Security Concerns and Best Practices

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was originally published on August 10, 2020, and was updated on August 1, 2023. Whether it’s for fun or for money, this is not the first reported attack, and it won’t be the last (of 2020). With an increasing number of databases in the cloud, the question is now not a matter of IF it will happen again, but when.

Best Practices

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2020-01-06T10:30:13+00:00. 2020-01-06T12:35:48+00:00. New metrics landing in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Large view.

Performance

Performance Cache Network Metrics

Dynatrace Application Security protects your applications in complex cloud environments

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. Affected applications might be deployed to multiple public cloud platforms, with thousands of microservices running on thousands of containers.

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet

Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

arXiv 2020. The canononical cloud platform architecture decouples storage and compute services so that each can be scaled and operated independently, i.e., they are disaggregated. Only now the database is itself a distributed KVS, and the slices of application functionality are much finer-grained. High level architecture.

Lambda

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency

5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Also: infrastructure and operations is trending up, while DevOps is trending down. Coincidence?

Software Architecture

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. A few years ago, The dark mode was first introduced, but from 2020 through 2021 has gained immense popularity. Serverless Architecture. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. Blockchain technology is an encrypted database storage system.

Blockchain

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless

Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

2020-04-01T11:30:00+00:00. 2020-04-01T14:46:06+00:00. With a headless CMS, you can make changes to your frontend without having any impact on the back-end infrastructure, hence saving yourself time and resources, which makes it much better. Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React. Blessing Krofegha. Headless CMS Cons.

Open Source

Open Source Website Mobile Code

Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Most of what we do on our computers—fancy graphics, email, databases, building websites, data analysis, digital signal processing—can’t be done with quantum computing. The language, practices, and tools of cloud native architecture are prominent in Velocity Berlin proposals. Quantum computers of that scale are still a long way off.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud

How should enterprises execute cross-browser testing?

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Another important aspect of an enterprise with respect to testers is its distributed architecture. The following graph depicts the change in percentage in Jan, Feb, and March 2020 with respect to these months a year back. Notice how March 2020 has shown an extremely positive change in website users with respect to March 2019.

Testing

Testing Website Small Business Internet

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020. A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain. How bad is it?

Performance

Performance Network Cache Metrics

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

2020-06-25T12:30:00+00:00. 2020-06-25T15:34:35+00:00. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. These strategies often involve spinning up and down numerous servers and using tools like load balancers and managed databases. Small projects benefit from simple architecture. Philip Kiely.

Media

Media Cache Storage AWS

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It was only in 2020, though, that Google shared its concept of Core Web Vitals and how it impacts SEO efforts. Layout Shifts From Dynamic And Static Content We have been using dynamic content serving, where each request reaches our back-end server and triggers processes like database retrievals and page renderings.

Performance

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics

How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

Architecture

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source

Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

At Netflix, we also heavily embrace a microservice architecture that emphasizes separation of concerns. Bulldozer abstracts the underlying infrastructure on how the data moves. One namespace in a Key-Value DAL contains as many key-value data as required, it is the equivalent to a table in a database. Dataset of January 1st 2020.

Latency

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning

Beyond REST

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since early 2020, Netflix has been iteratively developing systems to provide internal stakeholders and business leaders with up-to-date tools and dashboards with the latest information on the pandemic. Documentation can even be embedded in the database comments such that it displays in the GraphQL schema generated by Graphile.

Database

Database Entertainment Infrastructure Architecture

Achieving observability in async workflows

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Managing and operating asynchronous workflows can be difficult without the proper tools and architecture that puts observability, debugging, and tracing at the forefront. Once you finally find useful identifiers, you may begin writing SQL queries against your production database to find out what went wrong.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Java Google

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Upgrading Our Services And Infrastructure. Dan Shappir.

Website

Website Performance Google Media

Technology Performance Pulse

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Running the OpenTelemetry demo application with Dynatrace

Trending Sources

What is? OpenTelemetry??An open-source standard for logs, metrics, and traces

MongoDB Security: Top Security Concerns and Best Practices

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Dynatrace Application Security protects your applications in complex cloud environments

Cloudburst: stateful functions-as-a-service

5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React

Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

How should enterprises execute cross-browser testing?

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience

How Netflix Scales its API with GraphQL Federation (Part 2)

Bulldozer: Batch Data Moving from Data Warehouse to Online Key-Value Stores

Beyond REST

Achieving observability in async workflows

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

DBLog: A Generic Change-Data-Capture Framework

Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

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