Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The path to “Architected for Resiliency” is long, but it clearly pays off in the long run, especially when outages occur, as I want to show you in this blog post. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Fact #4: Multi-node, multi-availability zone deployment architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. More in the following sub-section.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. How does it work?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II: Replication Manager.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Duration: 163.41

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success. It serves as a crucial component between applications and users.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection.

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High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

This blog post was co-authored with Shashiraj Jeripotula, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS and will also be published via the AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. This blog post explains how to do this. Easily integrate Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics data into Dynatrace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF. As noted in an earlier blog post , we began developing an HDR variant of VMAF; let’s call it HDR-VMAF.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

If you’re happy just to trust me, then this is all you need to know right now: Google takes URL-level Core Web Vitals data from CrUX into account when deciding where to rank you in a search results page. All Core Web Vitals data used to rank you is taken from actual Chrome-based traffic to your site. You should get in touch.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Large enterprise environments are often distributed across multiple data centers around the world. Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. optimizing traffic routing. preventing unrelated traffic between data centers and regions.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. While cloud-native applications often grab the lion’s share of headlines in the tech world, the data-center-native applications that many modern applications rely on still play an important role in nearly every industry.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

While our engineering teams have and continue to build solutions to lighten this cognitive load (better guardrails, improved tooling, …), data and its derived products are critical elements to understanding, optimizing and abstracting our infrastructure. In the Reliability space, our data teams focus on two main approaches.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. What is VPC Flow Logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally. We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Announcing seamless integration of OpenTracing data into Dynatrace PurePath 4.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. With an on-prem data center, the organization bears the burden of securing the physical infrastructure and its digital assets.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. This is all available out-of-the-box with the default workflow template provided by Site Reliability Guardian.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In a world where 99.999% availability is the standard, measuring MTTR is a crucial practice to ensure resiliency and stability. For a clearer picture, it’s also helpful to know what deployment resolved the incident and to analyze user experience data to understand whether service has been restored effectively. App availability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. Application teams and Kubernetes/Swarm platform operators alike depend on detailed monitoring data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the worst case, you have to inform customers and the public about security breaches and stolen data. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. How to get started.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. .

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

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