Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Where does Lambda fit in the AWS ecosystem? Dynatrace news.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum Advantages.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 24, 2016

I am excited that Adrian Cockcroft will be joining AWS as VP of Cloud Architecture. Prior to this, he held positions as Distinguished Engineer at eBay and Sun Microsystems. One theme that has been consistent throughout his career is that Adrian has a gift for seeing the bigger engineering picture.

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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. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Java, Go, and Node.js

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But there are cases where you might be limited in setting up a dedicated syslog server with OneAgent because of environment architecture or resources. Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer. What is Fluentd?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Ready to learn more? Then read on! Let’s start with some facts.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Now, Dynatrace applies Davis, its AI engine, to monitor the new log sources.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. AWS EKS for Integration and Production. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Most of the time is taken by quality or release engineers looking at test results, comparing them with previous builds or walking through a checklist of items that accumulated over the years in order to harden their release acceptance process. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline …. 1: Pitometer in keptn. It takes your artifacts (e.g:

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In my keynote at AWS re:Invent today, I announced 13 new features and services (in addition to the 15 we announced yesterday). At AWS, we want to be the Q for developers, giving them the super-powered tools and services with deep features in the Cloud. Transformation in Development, Testing, & Operations.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering.

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Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. Architecture A Neon installation consists of compute nodes and the Neon storage engine. Compute nodes are stateless PostgreSQL nodes backed by the Neon storage engine.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Site reliability engineering teams often measure system availability in percentages in the pursuit of 100% uptime. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Dynatrace news. What is Azure Functions? How Azure Functions works.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Organizations that want a high-performance language with a great ecosystem for their applications often use Golang , an open-source programming language. Such additional telemetry data includes user-behavior analytics, code-level visibility, and metadata (including open-source data). Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

The bold ones were building distributed architectures using SOA, trying to implement ESBs and this all looked good on paper but ended up being difficult to implement. . ? Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? Rancher Kubernetes Engine . Cloud-native? IKS (IBM Cloud) .

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

The bold ones were building distributed architectures using SOA, trying to implement ESBs and this all looked good on paper but ended up being difficult to implement. . ? Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? Rancher Kubernetes Engine . Cloud-native? IKS (IBM Cloud) .

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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 ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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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. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. This architecture affords Amazon ECS high availability, low latency, and high throughput because the data store is never pessimistically locked. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Millions of lines of code comprise these apps, and they include hundreds of interconnected digital services and open-source solutions , and run in containerized environments hosted across multiple cloud services. Application architecture to gain insights into how application architecture changes impact performance and user experience.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The devil is in the detail, though because of the sheer number, breadth, and volatility of technologies used in modern architectures and the immense volume, velocity, and variety of data they produce. The Hub includes the most prominent platforms like Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift as well as public cloud vendors like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2019

In my colleague Andi Grabner’s recent blog on Automated Deployment and Architectural Validation, he notes that, based on a recent ACM survey , validating deployment still seems to be a semi-automated task for most software delivery teams. Read more about monspec in our AWS DevOps Tutorial here. Dynatrace news.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Experiment with different neural network architectures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It featured three relevant talks from LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook, and a platform architecture overview talk from first time participant Dropbox. He started by laying out some of the challenges around inefficiencies of engineering time when manually optimizing for weights/parameters in their business objective functions.

Infrastructure 126

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It featured three relevant talks from LinkedIn, Netflix and Facebook, and a platform architecture overview talk from first time participant Dropbox. He started by laying out some of the challenges around inefficiencies of engineering time when manually optimizing for weights/parameters in their business objective functions.

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