All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

While customers use observability platforms to identify issues in cloud environments, the next chapter of value is removing manual work from processes and building IT automation into their organizations. They can be proactive in identifying issues in cloud environments. “It Data-driven cloud optimization.

Innovation 196

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 196

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe.

DevOps 189

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 189

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Companies now recognize that technologies such as AI and cloud services have become mandatory to compete successfully. According to the recent Dynatrace report, “ The state of AI 2024 ,” 83% of technology leaders said AI has become mandatory to keep up with the dynamic nature of cloud environments.

Performance 184

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 184

Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

As organizations transition to the cloud and adopt DevSecOps practices, they can move more quickly and flexibly. They can develop software applications rapidly and gain access to extensible cloud resources without having to sink costs into IT plumbing or managing this infrastructure themselves. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 220

Open Source DevOps Java Innovation 220

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 two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 210

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 210

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. exemplifies this trend, where cloud transformation and artificial intelligence are popular topics.

Healthcare 226

Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 226

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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 two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

People from across the cloud native and distributed systems worlds came together in Berlin for the O’Reilly Velocity Conference. Watch “ Controlled chaos: The inevitable marriage of DevOps and security “ The power of good abstractions in systems design.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps Infrastructure Engineering 52

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns. I had a professor in grad school who used to joke that all architecture is reinvented every 5 years.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

High Scalability

MAY 18, 2021

This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

High Scalability

APRIL 7, 2021

This one-day conference will be featuring LIVE fireside chats and keynotes where you’ll be able to get your questions answered in real time. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

When you look at the multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) design that PostgreSQL uses and compare it to the designs of other databases, it looks chaotic. If your database instance is in the cloud, then you can peruse the feature set of your cloud vendor’s offering.

Database 123

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 123

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. At our virtual conference, Dynatrace Perform 2022 , the theme is “Empowering the game changers.”. Managing cloud complexity becomes critical as organizations continue to digitally transform.

Artificial Intelligence 178

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Performance Games 178

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of partitioned namespaces feature for Azure Service Bus, which allows customers to use partitioning for the premium messaging tier. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Azure 68

Azure Availability Design Scalability 68

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff! I wholeheartedly agree. makers of Fission ?—?the

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the AWS re:Invent 2023 conference, generative AI is a centerpiece. Second, the conference will outline some of the critical risks in using generative AI. In general, generative AI can empower AWS users to further accelerate and optimize their cloud journeys. Today’s IT organizations face unprecedented challenges.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 207

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In the early 2000s, Sun was designing it’s next generation high end server, and to avoid reliability issues that had caused problems in previous systems, adopted Six Sigma to create quality best practices. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content. We received more than 200 abstracts for talks for the 2018 O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London—on both expected and surprising topics.

Software Architecture 64

Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 64

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

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. It is equally important to give customers advice about which applications you think should not move to the cloud or at least not yet.

AWS 75

AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices 75

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The conference kicks off next week on Wednesday February 21st with Training Days and lasts through Saturday, February 24th. Azure Cosmos DB: design patterns and case studies – Andrew Liu. If anything just come to see me explain the architecture which is an amazing innovative piece of software. Saturday Sessions.

Engineering 40

Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The path to IT automation: Cloud migration, tool consolidation Boulogne Billancourt, France-based Odigo , for example, is using observability and IT automation to forward its mission: helping its global clients improve customer experience. Whenever we launch new products or systems, we design [monitoring] in from day one,” Stobbs said.

Innovation 180

Innovation Monitoring Network Strategy 180

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

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Plus, the architecture of the Edge tier was evolving to a PaaS (platform as a service) model, and we had some tough decisions to make about how, and where, to handle identity token handling. At a high-level, Zuul (cloud gateway) was to become the termination point for token inspection and payload encryption/decryption.

Architecture 221

Architecture Latency Servers Website 221

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

This is especially true when we consider the explosive growth of cloud and container environments, where containers are orchestrated and infrastructure is software defined, meaning even the simplest of environments move at speeds beyond manual control, and beyond the speed of legacy Security practices.

Government 224

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 224

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a 1996, January).

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

You might imagine that at some point we had a major scaling crises, where it looked like we'd fail due to an architectural bottleneck, and engineers worked long nights and weekends to save Netflix from certain disaster. I spoke about these at Facebook's [Performance@Scale] event and other conferences.

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

This has to do with the concept of bounded context from Domain Driven Design.). Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Upcoming events.

Artificial Intelligence 21

Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture Programming Infrastructure 21

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Decoupling Streams of Work Our goal when designing systems is to maximise the speed of delivery and value of the work we deliver.

Systems 40

Systems Social Media Design Media 40