The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance. Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count!

Monitoring 210

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

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. They’re proven and ready-to-go.

Architecture 99

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 99

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

Database 118

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 118

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent is great for monitoring the full stack. While this will give you a lot of information about the health of these components, sometimes a simple synthetic monitor is sufficient. Heading up the Platform Extension Services team at Dynatrace, we’re the go-to team for anything that isn’t available out of the box.

Infrastructure 152

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 152

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. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

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. Monitoring with ?the The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

Website 211

Website Monitoring Retail Media 211

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. 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.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace. And that’s where Dynatrace OneAgent comes in.

Metrics 168

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Most applications communicate with databases to, for example, pull a catalog entry or submit a new record when an order is placed. To achieve this, there must be a healthy connection between the application and the database. Application servers use connection pools to maintain connections with the databases that they communicate with.

Traffic 137

Traffic Performance Database Metrics 137

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

Traditional testing and monitoring practices have long been relied upon to achieve this goal. However, the line between testing and monitoring is becoming increasingly blurred with the emergence of synthetic monitoring. Synthetic Monitoring employs software-based agents to actively measure performance metrics.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exploratory data analytics is an analysis method that uses visualizations, including graphs and charts, to help IT teams investigate emerging data trends and circumvent issues, such as unexpected traffic spikes or performance degradations. Type > to see a list of all available search categories.

Analytics 206

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 206

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. Built-in monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring. Needs third party tools for monitoring.

Open Source 298

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Improved performance and availability.

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production Use Cases Real-Time APIs (backed by the Cassandra database) for asset metadata access don’t fit analytics use cases by data science or machine learning teams. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic.

Media 237

Media Traffic Processing Design 237

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Organizations have multiple stakeholders and almost always have different teams that set up monitoring, operate systems, and develop new functionality. The monitoring team set up the dashboard, so who owns violations?

Automotive 267

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 267

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.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Setting up and monitoring these systems was pretty easy compared to today’s standards.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. minutes of downtime in one year.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP Monitoring. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. DNS resolving error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Because of Dynatrace’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) capability, and insights from our AI engine, Davis, they were able to quickly prioritize and fix the issues to ensure their employees had an optimal remote work experience. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

Traffic 198

Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 198

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing AI-powered full-stack monitoring capabilities , Dynatrace has long featured broad support for Azure Services and intuitive, native integration with extensions for using OneAgent on Azure. Azure Traffic Manager. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance. Azure DB for PostgreSQL. Azure HDInsight.

Azure 146

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 146

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Maintaining high availability Kubernetes also makes it easier for applications to scale in response to changing workloads to maintain high availability. have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 105

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic. How to get started.

Traffic 231

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 231

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In In most cases, especially with more complex queries, Grail gives you answers at five to 100 times more speed than any other database you can use right now.”

Analytics 182

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 182

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147