The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

Ginseng: keeping secrets in registers when you distrust the operating system Yun & Zhong et al., Suppose you did go to the extreme length of establishing an unconditional root of trust for your system, even then, unless every subsequent piece of code you load is also fully trusted (e.g., NDSS’19.

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Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2017

as an analysis target. In the past I've shared similar methodologies applied to other operating systems, and finished porting them to BSD for this talk. The video is on youtube : And the slides are on slideshare : FreeBSD has an excellent range of analysis tools, and this was an opportunity to show them off.

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Systems Performance C++ Operating System 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Vulnerability management is an essential part of securing IT operations. But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Organizations should implement practices that cover the breadth of possible vulnerabilities and apply them to all their IT systems. Dynatrace news.

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Traffic Java Network DevOps 162

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

These can help you ensure your system’s health and quickly perform root cause analysis of any performance-related issue you might be encountering. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

DZone

JANUARY 16, 2021

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems is broken down into 8 different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , and Stolen CPU time. In this article, let us study ‘waiting CPU time’.

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Operating System Hardware Network Metrics 124

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news. What is infrastructure monitoring? .

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Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 196

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Operating Systems are not always set up in the same way. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. Recent improvements in OneAgent runtime-data handling. See details below.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 146

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

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Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 174

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

For medium to large scale applications, compatible with all commonly available operating systems and internet browsers is essential. Network Compatibility Testing: Application connected with different available networks such as 3G, 4G, LTE, Wi-Fi, need to be tested too. Cross-Browser Testing Tools.

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Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. We saw great adoption during the beta program, during which many of you who use AIX began leveraging deep Dynatracen analysis insights into their environments. Dynatrace news. Installation.

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Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System 102

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type. One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Monitoring makes sense of observability data.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Apica

APRIL 11, 2023

Businesses today use automation for everything from payroll to report generation, and they often turn to a robotic process automation (RPA) system to help. RPA Features to Look For While your systems utilize various operating systems, you probably use Windows to interface with most.

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IoT Benchmarking Scalability Network 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. can we actually make this work in practice?

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times. This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Let’s take a look at what kind of additional telemetry data we will have at our fingertips with OneAgent.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A good browser, good apps, a good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone are just expected today. It ensures that the website or web application works seamlessly on various combinations of devices, browsers, and operating systems as below: Devices – Mobile, laptop, desktop, tablet, smart TV, etc.

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Testing Website Mobile Testing Tools 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. Network scanners.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 179

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 184

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Anomalous behavior in a newly deployed application can easily escape human detection, but AIOps systems complement SecOps engineers by identifying and reporting on potentially exploitable vulnerabilities. This second solution picks up at data collection, aggregation, and analysis, preparing it for execution. Deterministic AI.

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DevOps Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Innovation 192

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 205

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. OneAgent and its Operator . Dashboards for business insights .

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Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. It becomes immediately clear there must be number of mechanisms in place to coordinate such a distributed system. Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2019

Auto-discovery of process and operating system logs. Dynatrace performs additional post-processing and analysis on these monitored files. To store log files centrally for use with Dynatrace Managed, a common Network File System (NFS) mount point (path) must be provided. Centralize log files.

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Monitoring Metrics Tuning Operating System 30

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time . Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system . To provide actionable answers monitoring systems store, baseline, and analyze telemetry data. OneAgent and its Operator . Dynatrace root cause analysis documentation .

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Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 134

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

This means that Dynatrace continues full operation when a majority of nodes are up and a maximum of two nodes are down at a time. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. A similar analysis can be performed on your GRO.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 244

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

The urge to create more and more indexes is found to be causing severe damage in many systems. Many times, removing indexes is what we should be doing first before considering any new indexes for the benefit of the entire system. This post is about PostgreSQL, but most of the problems also apply to other database systems.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 128

Dynatrace

JULY 28, 2021

Time to value is the main consideration for scenarios like: Setting up full-stack monitoring for a large, new Dynatrace environment where data analysis is required within a few hours. Setting up Dynatrace monitoring of a new data center right away. Migrating bare-metal infrastructure and supported applications to the cloud with no downtime.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Operating System Cloud 236

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Dynatrace has delivered automated business impact analysis for years; when a problem occurs, Davis reports—in real time—how many users are affected and how severe the problem is. Once you have this, Dynatrace makes filtering, multi-dimensional analysis, and creating custom dashboards easy. But how does this impact business outcomes?

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Analytics Metrics Best Practices Servers 206

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. OpenShift empowers easy integration with leading CI/CD platforms, AI-powered performance monitoring solutions, and user-demand analysis tools.

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147