Availability, Performance, Systems and Traffic - Technology Performance Pulse

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

Systems

Systems Media Cache Open Source

FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

Strategy

Strategy Latency Availability Traffic

What is log management? How to tame distributed cloud system complexities

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services.

Systems

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Patroni for PostgreSQL.

Availability

Availability Servers Network Open Source

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

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. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

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

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

Speed

Speed Software Software Latency

Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly.

Best Practices

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. 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. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics

APRA CPS 230 compliance, explained

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enhanced customer confidence through excellent service availability. If your organisation is involved in achieving APRA compliance, you are likely facing the daunting effort of de-risking critical system delivery. Moreover, for banking organisations, there is a good chance some of those systems are outdated.

Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware

Types Of Performance Testing and When to Use Them

DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Today, every business wants high-performing and high-quality software. But usually, it is seen that most of the applications fail to deliver expected performance under peak load or fluctuating network conditions. What Is Performance Testing? Today, let's learn more about this testing type in depth.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Testing Performance Latency

9 key DevOps metrics for success

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. Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code.

DevOps

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency

A Dynatrace champions guide to get ahead of digital marketing campaigns

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. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic.

Traffic

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers

General availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for AIX

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

We’re proud to announce the general availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for the AIX operating system. When we examine IBM Power Systems usage by industry, the majority of Fortune 500 companies run their most demanding mission-critical workloads on AIX. The ones that are available are old generation.

Availability

Availability Monitoring Metrics Operating System

Advanced security analytics to resolve incidents quickly and streamline threat hunting

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Gerhard Byrne, Dynatrace principal product manager, and Susan St. This allows them to react accordingly and return the system to a secure state. Clair determined what log data was available to her. For all Perform coverage, check out the Perform 2024 guide.

Analytics

Analytics Engineering Cloud Traffic

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

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.

Traffic

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

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?

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

What is cloud migration?

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

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy

Dynatrace Application Security detects and blocks attacks automatically in real-time

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

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java

COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

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.

Traffic

Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

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

Website

Website Monitoring Retail Media

Optimizing Java XPath CPU and memory overhead by 98%

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.

Java

Java Traffic Government Code

Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

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. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. What is VPC Flow Logs.

AWS

AWS Transportation Network Traffic

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

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). This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications.

Cloud

Cloud Azure AWS Database

MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning

Tuning Database Performance Hardware

SLOs done right: how DevOps teams can build better service-level objectives

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

In the 2023 Perform session “SLOs done right: A practitioners guide,” Michael Cabrera, SRE lead at Vivint, and Andreas Grabner, DevSecOps activist at Dynatrace, break down the state of SLOs and discuss how teams can adopt successful SLOs, avoid less-than-ideal objectives, and ultimately build better SLOs.

DevOps

DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic

Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs can be a great way for DevOps and infrastructure teams to use data and performance expectations to make decisions, such as whether to release and where engineers should focus their time. Availability.

Software

Software Software Benchmarking Latency

Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics

Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

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.

Latency

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud

Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

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. Dynatrace news. Saturation.

Automotive

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure

Is working-from-home affecting productivity? Use Dynatrace to find out and optimize!

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. Both types of users mentioned access the same system, the only difference is that employees access it via the internal network and externals through a public exposed URL.

DevOps

DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics

Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

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.

Efficiency

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache

Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

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. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Users didn’t have to upend their daily driver operating system. But mainstream users? Not so much.

Open Source

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.216

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Improved performance of Licensing and Environments overview page for clusters running dozens of environments. Self-service update packages management is now available. You can safe your disk space and have more control over what’s available to your cluster . Operating systems support. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x.

Operating System

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage

Log auditing and log forensics benefit from converging observability and security data

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.

Analytics

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud

The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. Operating System Updates and Security Patches. This makes censorship of domestic traffic faster. . IP Blocking. DNS Hijacking and Phishing.

Monitoring

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet

Optimize your marketing campaign investment by leveraging BizDevOps

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

Below are KPIs from their system they shared with us, demonstrating some problems that were arising during their marketing campaign. This means that the number of conversions didn’t increase as a result of the campaign, which is a negative impact of performance for the company. Did your big marketing campaign investment pay off?

Traffic

Traffic Analytics DevOps Infrastructure

Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Sometimes it even lead to conclusions like “performance testing hitting the wall” just because load generation may be a challenge. – Cloud.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing Technology Technology Testing

Exploring MySQL 8 Priority-Based Error Log Filtering

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. This is particularly beneficial in high-traffic environments where minimizing log noise is crucial for efficient log analysis.

Database

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic

What is a Distributed Storage System

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.

Storage

Storage Systems Big Data Azure

Progressive delivery done right with Dynatrace and OpenFeature

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

After a set amount of time, the flag is disabled – the offer is no longer available. After all, if you can change everything about the system using flags but can’t see what the effects of those changes are, you’re flying blind. The special offer is placed behind a feature flag. The flag is enabled for those users.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Code DevOps Traffic

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

Trending Sources

FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

What is log management? How to tame distributed cloud system complexities

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

APRA CPS 230 compliance, explained

Types Of Performance Testing and When to Use Them

9 key DevOps metrics for success

A Dynatrace champions guide to get ahead of digital marketing campaigns

General availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for AIX

Advanced security analytics to resolve incidents quickly and streamline threat hunting

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

What is cloud migration?

Dynatrace Application Security detects and blocks attacks automatically in real-time

COVID-19 and Digital Services: An Action Plan for the Unexpected

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Optimizing Java XPath CPU and memory overhead by 98%

Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

SLOs done right: how DevOps teams can build better service-level objectives

Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Artificial Intelligence in Cloud Computing

Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

Is working-from-home affecting productivity? Use Dynatrace to find out and optimize!

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.216

Log auditing and log forensics benefit from converging observability and security data

The Great Firewall of China: Obstacles to Monitoring Performance

Optimize your marketing campaign investment by leveraging BizDevOps

Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Exploring MySQL 8 Priority-Based Error Log Filtering

What is a Distributed Storage System

Progressive delivery done right with Dynatrace and OpenFeature

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