InfoQ

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

AWS published a new set of updates to its Well-Architected Framework, with changes across all six pillars of the framework. The performance efficiency and operational excellence pillars have been restructured and consolidated to reduce the number of best practices. By Rafal Gancarz

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AWS Best Practices Architecture Efficiency 122

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Many organizations today rely on cloud-native applications for their scalability and agility, among other benefits. However, not all cloud strategies are the same. Unlike a traditional IT model, however, cloud providers own and manage these resources. Some organizations prefer a serverless approach. Reduced latency.

Serverless 165

Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 165

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Finally, provisioning our infrastructure itself is also becoming an increasingly complex task, so our data teams contribute to tools for diagnosis and automation of our cloud capacity management.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. In this AWS re:Invent 2023 guide, we explore the role of generative AI in the issues organizations face as they move to the cloud: IT automation, cloud migration and digital transformation, application security, and more.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 209

All Things Distributed

MAY 28, 2015

An important way of engaging with AWS customers is through the AWS Global Summit Series. All AWS Summits feature a keynote address highlighting the latest announcements from AWS and customer testimonials, technical sessions led by AWS engineers, and hands-on technical training.

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AWS Education Best Practices Architecture 86

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is even more cumbersome when working on bare metal, as it is more difficult to add space when using this kind of solution with respect to the cloud. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

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AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 91

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. ” it helps to understand the monolithic architectures that preceded them. Understanding monolithic architectures.

Architecture 246

Architecture Software Software Development 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 17, 2021

This method of structuring, developing, and operating complex, multi-function software as a collection of smaller independent services is known as microservice architecture. ” it helps to understand the monolithic architectures that preceded them. Understanding monolithic architectures.

Architecture 244

Architecture Software Software Development 244

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. Common findings.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 144

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup.

AWS 75

AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices 75

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I got Paul Strong involved in the EGA before I left Sun, the two competing bodies eventually merged, and Grid and Web Services evolved into Cloud Computing.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. Therefore, it’s critical to weigh the advantages of microservices against its potential issues, other architecture approaches, and your unique business needs.

Architecture 200

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. How are your users adopting and responding to your service?

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As cloud environments become increasingly complex, legacy solutions can’t keep up with modern demands. As a result, companies run into the cloud complexity wall – also known as the cloud observability wall – as they struggle to manage modern applications and gain multicloud observability with outdated tools.

Cloud 226

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 190

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

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For the inaugural O’Reilly survey on serverless architecture adoption, we were pleasantly surprised at the high level of response: more than 1,500 respondents from a wide range of locations, companies, and industries participated. The high response rate tells us that serverless is garnering significant mindshare in the community.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Microservices architecture. When it comes to a Traditional CMS, the CMS and the resulting front-end website are built on a monolithic architecture. Monolithic architecture takes a back seat with headless CMSes. With this microservices architecture, everything you got from your Traditional CMS does not come out of the tin.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money. It is best practice to have an odd number of replica set members to maintain voting quorum.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Many organizations are moving their Microsoft workloads to the public cloud or have already done so. I recently, helped one of our customers, a leading provider for cable and satellite television in the United States, optimize their Microsoft workloads running in different AWS Environments with Dynatrace.

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AWS Best Practices Database Traffic 125

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Defining The Environment Choosing a framework, baseline performance cost, Webpack, dependencies, CDN, front-end architecture, CSR, SSR, CSR + SSR, static rendering, prerendering, PRPL pattern. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Consider using PRPL pattern and app shell architecture.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Still, after all these years, keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet. Consider using PRPL pattern and app shell architecture. Baseline performance cost matters.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Keeping progressive enhancement as the guiding principle of your front-end architecture and deployment is a safe bet. From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). Baseline performance cost matters.

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104