Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I’d even use it to manage datacenter failover or failover for other cloud vendors, as what you really need is a highly available control plane that is totally independent of your own failure modes.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. What is AWS Lambda?

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. The discoveries form inputs into the software development and delivery process, so new software and microservices will better stand up to unforeseeable events.

Engineering 224

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 224

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Types of DBMS DBMS can be classified into hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented types. Data backup and recovery in a DBMS encompass a series of procedures that enable users to generate data backups as a precautionary measure and restore data in the event of data loss, corruption, or system failures.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. Dynatrace news. Self-contained turnkey solution.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 246

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Simply knowing the different forms of performance testing that we have available to us, and where they sit in the product development process, makes it much easier for businesses to adopt a performance strategy and keep on top of things. Each have their own time, place, purpose, focus, and audience.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Strategy 172

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?

Availability 82

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

Infrastructure 181

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 181

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. software Kernel software-based events. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

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. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Any organization that uses personal and other sensitive data must have a firm, proven plan for business continuity in the event of a disaster or cyberattack. In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

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. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

At Grid Dynamics, we recently faced a necessity to build an in-stream data processing system that aimed to crunch about 8 billion events daily providing fault-tolerance and strict transactioanlity i.e. none of these events can be lost or duplicated. The signature is initially initialized by the event ID. Pipelining.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the context of IT (Information Technology), an incident is simply an event or issue that disrupts normal operation or quality of service. Now that we have talked about what an incident is, incident management is the process by which teams resolve these events and bring systems and services back to normal operation. Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

optimised container networking and security. Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen. Similarly, event-driven stream data processing is a lot easier to implement as microservices running on top Kubernetes. faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth).

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. Networking. In production, containers are easy to replicate. Observability.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 300

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The vast majority of climate scientists attribute the increasing ferocity and frequency of extreme weather events around the world to climate change, which they largely attribute to human activity. This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

There was so much interest that I formed four Study Groups and appointed chairs: the largest on concurrency and parallelism (SG1, Hans Boehm), and three others on modules (SG2, Doug Gregor), filesystem (SG3, Beman Dawes), and networking (SG4, Kyle Kloepper). This will be a broad and deep dive. At C++ and Beyond 2011, the attendees (audience!)

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

Development 249

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 249

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This centralization means all aspects of the system can share underlying hardware, are generally written in the same programming language, and the operating system level monitoring and diagnostic tools can help developers understand the entire state of the system. Overcoming the cloud complexity wall with Dynatrace.

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

Analytics 207

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 207

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

And while these events are a great opportunity for us Dynatracers to share our thoughts with our users, it’s also an amazing opportunity to for us to learn from our users about how they use Dynatrace to optimize digital experiences and digital operations in both the public and private sector. Dynatrace news. APAC Series.

Cache 197

Cache Architecture Database Government 197

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

” Meaning, you don’t need to worry about OneAgent updates because they’re performed automatically, safely, and promptly as soon as new versions are available (no manual effort required). As such, it’s quite often a network-shared mount point that multiple hosts use to store third party software and libraries.

Best Practices 195

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 195

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. Solutions like Percona XtraDB Cluster are a component to improve the availability of your database infrastructure.

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Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. Server rendering is also cool—even if that’s just how we say “send HTML over the network” these days. Event listener implementations incurred zero hydration cost.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP monitoring allows you to test availability and performance from around the world. If that is available, then a positive response is received. Network or connection error.

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Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63