CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!). Expect closer to 75ms.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2020

Hardware requirements updates – “Trial” node category changed to Micro. Premium High Availability goes GA. The Dynatrace web UI was upgraded so that it supports the filtering of cluster nodes by network region and other properties so it’s more manageable at scale. Stability and resilience improvements.

Hardware 104

Hardware Java Innovation Metrics 104

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. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

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). Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? Customizing and connecting these services requires code.

Lambda 175

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 175

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. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 160

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Windows 2016 Server (or a supported Linux distribution ).

Monitoring 103

Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 103

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. Since your dataset is 100 GB and you have 500 GB of RAM, you can allocate a significant portion of the available memory to the InnoDB buffer pool. A commonly recommended value for the buffer pool size is between 50% to 75% of the available memory.

Social Media 122

Social Media Database Servers Cache 122

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. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born. Blast radius.

Engineering 218

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

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

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5 The 5G network is operating at 3.5GHz). The maximum physical layer bit-rate for the 5G network is 1200.98 The short answer is no.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

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.

Availability 241

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 241

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware. They always have backups, and many servers to provide a reliable and stable environment to test. Let’s understand this with the help of an example – there is a video-streaming website that is available for laptops and computers only.

Cloud 96

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

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. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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. By instrumenting both the client-side of a request and the server-side it’s possible to figure out wait times.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

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.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 89

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Reduce Network Requests. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place. While lastly, APM allows you to gather data on server-side bottlenecks.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Response times, quality, and availability are critical factors that need to be assessed before pushing applications into production. All resources are dedicated to this test – no shared servers.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some VoltDB production servers to create a disaster recovery site. Say you have five VoltDB servers in production, with k-factor=2, and no disaster site. You want to shift some of these servers to create a disaster recovery site.

Hardware 40

Hardware Database Servers Tuning 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

We continue to grow our public synthetic monitoring locations, but customers using Dynatrace Synthetic still need to monitor the performance and availability of internal web applications. With private synthetic browser monitors, we bring the testing capabilities available in public locations right into your own environment.

Network 151

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 151

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To achieve optimal tracking results it is important to choose wisely among available tools like Prometheus or Grafana, which offer deeper insights into understanding your Redis® instances for better performance optimization. Keeping a tab on memory usage provides additional insight into the health of operations running through Redis® servers.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. This helps to improve efficiency and ensures that information is consistent, up-to-date, and available. are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices.

Open Source 294

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 294

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. Its tailored to enterprise applications that have thousands of users, but limited free edition is available. Buying new servers and more bandwidth without optimizing your current resource is a waste of money.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Architectural Design.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63