Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And why have SLOs and SLIs become so important as teams automate processes to consistently meet SLAs and error budgets? SLOs are best understood as part of a framework for tracking service levels that also includes service level agreements (SLAs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets. But what are SLOs?

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Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 187

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

These include spending too much time on manual processes, finger-pointing due to siloed teams, and poor customer experience because of unplanned work. Providing standardized self-service pipeline templates, best practices, and scalable automation for monitoring, testing, and SLO validation. GitHub and GitHub Actions.

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Software Software Open Source Azure 246

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Measurements refer to specific data points, such as the number of seconds it takes to process a request. Memory utilization: The amount of memory required to process a request.

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

All of the database automation for running a highly available, resilient, and secure database is built into the operator to simplify the operation and management of your clusters. This marks the end of an era of chaos, paving the way for efficiency gains, quicker innovation, and standardized practices.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2021

They will adopt your monitoring self-service platform instead of building a custom monitoring solution that fits into their development process and mindset. This will make your life easier when scaling monitoring in your organization as well as it increases productivity of your application teams as you fit right into their existing processes.

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Open Source Code Monitoring Azure 138

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Yet many companies find it challenging to integrate digital technologies meaningfully into their operations, and they still rely on inefficient processes that generate unnecessary waste. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Without SRE best practices, the observability landscape is too complex for any single organization to manage. Like any evolving discipline, it is characterized by a lack of commonly accepted practices and tools. In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization.

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Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 184

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In this article, I take a deeper look into continuous delivery (CD), and describe how this phase of the process is the key to achieving greater efficiency in your software development life cycle. Where continuous delivery fits into the development process. This process of frequent check-ins is called continuous integration (CI).

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Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

Embracing cloud native best practices to increase automation. Onboarding teams using self-service Kubernetes selectors is one of the best examples of how Dynatrace embraces cloud native technologies to increase automation, reduce bureaucracy, and encourage agility. Migration instructions are available in Dynatrace Documentation.

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Availability Scalability Cloud Metrics 313

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

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. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Browsers construct a render tree using DOM and CSSOM, and the page renders once all render-blocking resources like CSS, font files, and scripts have been parsed and processed. However, developers with a deep understanding of the project may want to improve performance beyond that by doing some fine-tuning under the hood.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Is the right data available in these critical moments? For these tasks, you need a single source of truth with consolidated security data available at all times, easily generated and reproducible reports, and strong automation capabilities that help you be proactive and efficient. How fast can your teams get answers?

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Efficiency Best Practices Tuning Internet 208

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. Depending on frameworks, data processing units (a.k.a A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More recently, teams have begun to apply DevOps best practices to infrastructure automation, giving developers a more active role with GitOps as an operational framework. All Dynatrace enhancements mentioned in this blog post will be available within the next 90 days. How to get started. Otherwise, contact our Services team.

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Code Software Software DevOps 213

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

This allows the customer to use the existing five servers in a new configuration that trades off some level of high availability redundancy for disaster recovery and geographic redundancy. While this may not provide the level of HA necessary for a production application, some customers ask for the mixed cluster size feature (available in v6.2)

Hardware 40

Hardware Database Servers Tuning 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same. innodb_file_per_table.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

The Morning Paper

JULY 7, 2019

Previously on The Morning Paper we’ve looked at the spread of machine learning through Facebook and Google and some of the lessons learned together with processes and tools to address the challenges arising. A general process. The generic machine learning process looks like this: ( Enlarge ). ICSE’19.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 92

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

And if you absolutely have to have it on a device, most of them are available via Kindle as well. Author Steve Souders writes about the best practices that he gained as the Chief Performance Yahoo! Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices For Web Developers. Let’s get started! – Aurel V.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters. Automatic Backups Setting up automated backup procedures in PostgreSQL is important for data safety and availability.

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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. Special considerations are needed to ensure these processes still work seamlessly after partitioning. Documentation : Always be documenting!

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are many tools available that can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your website and application performance: APM, synthetics, RUM, alerting, alert integrations, and more. Security holes in your site open you to exploit, which could not only compromise your customers’ data but also impact your performance and availability.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There seems to be broad agreement that hyperautomation is the combination of Robotic Process Automation with AI. We’ll see it in the processing of the thousands of documents businesses handle every day. We can certainly apply the slogan to many, if not all, clerical tasks–and even to the automation process itself.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

While web browsers and mobile phones have gigabytes of memory available for graphics, our devices are constrained to mere MBs. Each device running the Netflix TV application has a limited surface cache pool available so the rendering engine tries to maximize the usage of the cache as much as possible.

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Cache Design Testing Development 166

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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Network Servers Cache Traffic 104

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Projects built using JavaScript-based frameworks often ship large bundles of JavaScript that take time to download, parse and execute, blocking page render and user input in the process. JavaScript-based frameworks like React made the process of developing web applications streamlined and efficient, for better or worse.

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Code Performance Network Website 89

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is a bit more difficult to explain, because it depends on the physical properties of the medium (for example, the used frequency of radio waves), the number of users on the network, and also the devices that interconnect different subnetworks (because they typically can only process a certain number of packets per second).

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

While this has the benefit of respecting user privacy by minimizing permissions (which is a best practice that ChatGPT may have learned from its training data), it made my coding efforts a lot more painful since I kept running into unexpected errors when I tried adding new functionality to my Chrome extension.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. (Yes

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. The key takeaway here is that what we needed was not really HTTP/3, but rather “TCP/2” , and we got HTTP/3 “for free” in the process. As such, the differences between HTTP/1.1

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145