Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! to 60ms in one of the more frequently used transactions.

Cache 199

Cache Database Architecture Government 199

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

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Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Partner Infrastructure team at Netflix provides solutions to support these two significant efforts by enabling device management at scale. Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 106

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 88

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 88

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. The sharding architecture consists of several components: Shard Servers : Shard servers are individual nodes within the sharded cluster.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 75

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. When we think of a system’s architecture, the first thing that may pop into your mind is the traditional client-server system, where a server was the shared resource among many different devices and machines, like printers, computes, clients, etc. Multi-Tier. Concurrency. Heterogeneity.

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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. I think it’s a different team with different expertise from the more infrastructure oriented Container Platform Team that provides a place for applications to run.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

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. For services, the gains were even more impressive. Conclusion If any of this piques your interest, reach out to us!

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Benefits of a Serverless Model. Monitoring.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Our analysis suggests that the wireline paths, upper-layer protocols, computing and radio hardward architecture need to co-evolve with 5G to form an ecosystem, in order to fully unleash its potential. This is a feature of the NSA architecture which requires dropping off of 5G onto 4G, doing a handover on 4G, and then upgrading to 5G again.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Comments ().

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. Solutions like Percona XtraDB Cluster are a component to improve the availability of your database infrastructure. ” Read it here!

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Source: FileFlex.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Architecture An explanatory description of Amazon Aurora’s architecture can be found in Vadim’s post written a few years ago.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. This allows MongoDB to scale horizontally, handling large datasets and high traffic loads. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Download today.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Large Seasonal Peaks – Our largest community supports TurboTax where the peak traffic during February or April is often 100s of times greater than a quiet day in June. Moving to AWS has enabled us with operational agility to deliver more value to those customers without having to worry about scale and infrastructure maintenance.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure. One distinct trend is a belief that a JavaScript framework and Single-Page Architecture (SPA) is a must for PWA development. Performance budgets keep everyone on the same.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. The seamless integration with the rest of the AWS infrastructure, especially CloudWatch, made real-time monitoring a cinch.â??.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152