Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. availability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. With observability, you can get a better understanding of how your systems behave and what they do, especially in case of errors. Why should I adopt observability?

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. An app is built with some expectations and is supposed to provide firm results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Example 1: Architecture boundaries.

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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. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. The graphic below (Fig. We present two sets. The first set (Fig.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. Step 1: Understand Traffic Patterns and Potential Spikes; Remove Team Silos. The impact of traffic spikes is illustrated by the load that eCommerce web sites typically see during Black Friday. The next step is to understand when your system is going to break.

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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.

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

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

First, it helps to understand that applications and all the services and infrastructure that support them generate telemetry data based on traffic from real users. In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. Availability. So how can teams start implementing SLOs? Reliability.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them.

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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. For example, performance degradations, improper functionality, or lack of availability (that is, problems that represent anomalies in baseline system performance). What is VPC Flow Logs.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Are the systems we rely on every day as reliable via the home internet connection? Example #1 Order System: No change in user or buyers’ behavior. The first example comes from Thomas, who is using Dynatrace to monitor core business applications. Example #2 ensuring DevOps tool chain availability at Dynatrace.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). Let’s walk through an example: Database: MySQL. Cloud Provider: AWS.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. or 99.99% of the time.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation. Grabner and Cabrera offer the example of an iOS app experiencing crash issues after a team deploys a new version.

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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. . Monitoring with ?the

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Website Monitoring Retail Media 213

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing is a cybersecurity practice that involves examining logs generated by various applications, computer systems, and network devices to identify and analyze security-related events. It requires an understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems, with the goal of automating processes. Were there attack attempts?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, when running tests, the state of the device will change from “available for testing” to “in test.” System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

There are problems with this manual approach, though, for example, the following: Manual changes make the tech stack is made more complex: You also have to manually update routing rules and other changes. After a set amount of time, the flag is disabled – the offer is no longer available. It is also a blunt instrument.

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? But mainstream users? Not so much.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

Below are KPIs from their system they shared with us, demonstrating some problems that were arising during their marketing campaign. From the below screenshot you can see that the traffic picked up not only slightly but quadrupled! What would you have seen if the particular page was down or not available to the user?

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry configuration: Setting up OpenTelemetry in our application In part 1 of our series, we introduced the demo application: A web app that performs a distributed host/URL availability check and is made up of two parts: a PHP frontend a JavaScript agent running on Node.js OpenTelemetry configuration for JavaScript / Node.js

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Transportation Metrics Best Practices Code 185

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses. Another aspect of automation is to switch the traffic for the application from Main to Standby after promotion. Skip this step if you already have it configured.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 18, 2018

In reality, in any non-trivial installation, there are multiple tools collecting, storing and displaying overlapping sets of metrics from many types of systems and different levels of abstraction. What if your monitoring systems fail? How do you even know when a monitoring system has failed?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2]. By their nature, they can only rely on the lowest common denominator of participating systems. That system quickly grew very complex and became difficult to maintain.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. A reduced throughput could generally indicate that the server gets fewer queries.

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Testlodge

APRIL 19, 2023

Integration testing involves taking units or modules and testing how they work once integrated with a system’s other units. A module can be something as simple as a bug fix, a story, or something more extensive such as adding a new feature or third-party option to a system. Examples with explanations of each are below.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. For example, you can create your own dashboard in minutes: What you get. Dynatrace news.

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Storage Metrics Java Architecture 133

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. It has 8 physical hyperthreaded cores, split on 2 NUMA sockets.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

StatsD is a widely adopted metric protocol for collecting, aggregating, and sending developer-defined application metrics to separate systems for graphical analysis. For example, StatsD doesn’t support dimensions and tagging. Telegraf is a plugin-based system for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally. An example of this is Netflix’s video player or the TV UI javascript package.

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