Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Here begins our 2021 adventure. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. A 2021 Global Baseline. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Consider Log4Shell , a zero-day vulnerability that emerged in 2021, affecting millions of applications. The CVE Program, which publishes vulnerabilities as they become known, reported a 25% increase in vulnerabilities between 2021 and 2022.  Threats to applications can be costly and disruptive.

Cloud 195

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 195

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

At Perform 2021, we were joined by Peter Friedwagner, Head of Infrastructure and Cloud Services at Porsche Informatik. Dynatrace’s cloud monitoring capabilities enable Porsche Informatik’s infrastructure teams to understand what’s going on in their environment. “The The cloud monitoring journey.

Cloud 156

Cloud Monitoring Automotive Infrastructure 156

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Consider the following ways teams can apply log analytics to on-premises and multicloud infrastructures: Application deployment verification. What are the use cases for log analytics? Better-quality code.

Analytics 223

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 223

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Consider the following ways teams can apply log analytics to on-premises and multicloud infrastructures: Application deployment verification. What are the use cases for log analytics? Better-quality code.

Analytics 190

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 190

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This architectural method encompasses software containers, service meshes, microservices , immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs to create an environment that is inherently scalable, extendable, and easy to manage through automation. Immutable infrastructure. Microservices. Default to managed services.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

End-to-end observability enables security by design “The value Dynatrace gives us is broader visibility over the full infrastructure and the key metrics that show how fast we authorize the transactions,” Domenella said. The visibility extends through smartphone applications, load balancers, web application firewalls (WAFs), and databases.

Design 226

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As they increase the speed of product innovation and software development, organizations have an increasing number of applications, microservices and cloud infrastructure to manage. In 2021, Deloitte reported that 77% of CEOs stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated their digital transformation plans.

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Artificial Intelligence Performance Innovation Speed 192

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

This allows us to provide our services to customers with a focus on these three key pillars: Scalability : Our solution uses scalable cloud infrastructure. Each step is automated from provisioning infrastructure to problem analysis. Terraform and Ansible to provision infrastructure and configure Dynatrace. zone } } } }.

Testing 226

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 226

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Once you finally find useful identifiers, you may begin writing SQL queries against your production database to find out what went wrong. Deployed to Production for Productions With productions returning to work in the midst of a global pandemic, the adoption of Prodicle Distribution has grown 10x, between June 2020 and April 2021.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

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. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) lists over 175,000 known vulnerabilities.

Traffic 171

Traffic Java Network DevOps 171

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. Automatic discovery and mapping of application and its infrastructure components to maintain real-time awareness in dynamic environments. Improved infrastructure utilization. Reduced number of performance incidents.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. PostgreSQL supports multiple concurrent users and can handle complex database operations without downtime or data loss. What is PostgreSQL used for?

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. AWS speaker: T. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

To learn how to solve these challenges, we sat down with Dynatrace technical project managers Michal Franszak and Michal Nalezinski at Perform 2021. This instantly identifies the root cause of any problem with the application or its infrastructure, anywhere it’s hosted or transacting.” He went on to explain why this is unique. “We

Azure 177

Azure AWS DevOps Cloud 177

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. With this batch style approach, several issues have surfaced like data movement is tightly coupled with database tables, database schema is not an exact mapping of business data model, and data being stale given it is not real time etc.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Running privileged containers is a security risk because it creates an opportunity for a malicious user to take control of the host system, and this endangers your entire infrastructure. Secrets, such as database credentials, API keys, SSL keys or encryption keys, need to be managed to protect them from discovery. Manage secrets.

Open Source 258

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 258

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 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023. Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker.

Database 70

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 70

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. in February 2021 and currently only supports traces and metrics, with logs still in the initial planning stages.

Open Source 227

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 227

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs. According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 186

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 186

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00. Implementing this change enabled us to take major steps such as updating our infrastructure along with completely rewriting our core functionality from the ground up. Upgrading Our Services And Infrastructure. Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study).

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Together, they form the Device Management Platform, which is the infrastructural foundation for Netflix Test Studio (NTS). This effectively ensures exactly-once processing on a per-event basis.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Distributed tracing describes the act of following a transaction through all participating applications (tiers) and sub-systems, such as databases. Much has been said about observability being the next big thing and that some systems only provide monitoring but not observability, but is this really valid in 2021? Distributed tracing.

Open Source 205

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 205

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

2021-09-21T09:30:00+00:00. 2021-09-21T12:08:01+00:00. These include: Infrastructure. How Web Development Tools Are Helping Users Keep Pace With Rapid Change. How Web Development Tools Are Helping Users Keep Pace With Rapid Change. Frederick O’Brien. Several years ago, I wrote about website builders for a living. Deployment.

Development 100

Development Website Media Open Source 100

Smashing Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

2021-07-02T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-07-13T02:07:04+00:00. August 5–19, 2021. Email sending infrastructure. Make sure that the right database is selected (or the right list of contacts in your email marketing service). The email testing infrastructure being set improperly. Email Testing Flow As It Should Be.

Testing 110

Testing Servers Social Media Automotive 110

Smashing Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

2021-05-05T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-05-05T16:06:35+00:00. However, in our pages, the case was different as our database stores lots of data, and we need to serve thousands of landing pages at scale. Let’s take a high-level and very simplified look at the infrastructure powering the landing pages we are talking about.

Google 111

Google Architecture Servers Speed 111

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August of 2021 and updated in November of 2023. Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker.

Scalability 59

Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 59

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in November 2021 and was updated in September 2023. MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. What is a Trigger in MySQL?

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Cache Database Games Healthcare 61

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

All these SPAs are one of the top website development trends as of 2021, and it is expected to be continued in 2022. Consistent with the Statista report, 9% of eCommerce firms invested in progressive web apps (PWA) in 2021. E-commerce companies investing in PWA 2021 Statista. Examples of SPAs. Image Source. Dark Mode.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

MAY 12, 2022

CrUX is a cloud-based database into which Real User Measurements (RUM) are collected from live Chrome browser sessions. Starting in June 2021, these metrics have become a ranking factor for Google search. Unfortunately, this service missed most uses of Preact prior to November 2021. Collecting Core Web Vitals From The Field.

Google 128

Google Performance Website Mobile 128

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time. The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Higher is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We shall also see how decisions are made in an enterprise and why cross-browser testing is the most important thing in 2021 to sustain a healthy business. Even my data is synced over to different platforms quickly which means I am working on the same database for each of my applications. What does enterprise mean from a tester’s POV?

Testing 52

Testing Website Small Business Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

2021-10-19T10:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-19T12:05:52+00:00. Automated database failovers are a little scary because you don’t do them that often. And infrastructure changes. So if you’re using their database container or technology, guess what? Smashing Podcast Episode 42 With Jeff Smith: What Is DevOps? Drew McLellan.

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