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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

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.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

Let’s explore this concept as we look at the best practices and solutions you should keep in mind to overcome the wall and keep up with today’s fast-paced and intricate cloud landscape. When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system.

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Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

Dynatrace

Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Organizations have multiple stakeholders and almost always have different teams that set up monitoring, operate systems, and develop new functionality.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains.

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SQL Server 2017 Improved Resource Usage On Smaller Machines

SQL Server According to Bob

Studying the code I found that the ‘default max worker threads’ calculation did not take into account the RAM on the system. The calculation was based on architecture only Default-Worker-Count = (starting count x86=256 : x64=512) + (## of workers per CPU on the system [x86=8 : x64=16]). CLR Garbage Collection.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. Common components of DR and HA architectures By definition, there are differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).