Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

As companies accelerate digital transformation, they implement modern cloud technologies like serverless functions. According to Flexera , serverless functions are the number one technology evaluated by enterprises and one of the top five cloud technologies in use at enterprises. And serverless support is a core capability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Dynatrace and AWS. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 146

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? 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. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. This segregation facilitates optimized I/O operations, preventing potential bottlenecks and enhancing overall system performance. Amazon RDS extends support for DLVs across various database engines: MariaDB: 10.6.7

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. With this launch, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, and Stockholm expected to come online by 2020.

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AWS Healthcare Cloud Government 117

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 221

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. The settings might not be optimal.

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 116

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. Fact #1: AWS EC2 outage properly documented. Ready to learn more? Then read on!

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. Cloud effectively solves each of these major issues.

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Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 202

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self-Service Capabilities ” (MaaSS) which aren’t covered by any of the open source or platform offerings: K8s cluster and pod health monitoring.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Finally, provisioning our infrastructure itself is also becoming an increasingly complex task, so our data teams contribute to tools for diagnosis and automation of our cloud capacity management.

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Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. This restriction made it impossible to totally export all traces from Apigee unless the sampling rate was below the maximum, in which case they could use Google Cloud Trace.

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Open Source Google Serverless Azure 199

All Things Distributed

APRIL 11, 2018

Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. Docker), and the cloud. Containers solve a fundamental code portability problem and enable new infrastructure patterns on the cloud. This is the vision behind AWS Fargate.

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Cloud AWS Innovation Traffic 148

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. let’s call it GS2?—?to

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. They state in the blog that this was quick to build, which is the point.

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Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Service Segmentation: The ease of the cloud deployments has led to the organic growth of multiple AWS accounts, deployment practices, interconnection practices, etc. VPC Flow Logs VPC Flow Logs is an AWS feature that captures information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC.

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

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 ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Key information about your system and applications comes from logs. Key information about your system and applications comes from logs.

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Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 220

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

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Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. In the following sections, we demo the following: Introduce Unguard, our insecure cloud-native microservices demo application.

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Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 201

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

At AWS, we don't mark many anniversaries. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung Introduction Titus is the Netflix cloud container runtime that runs and manages containers at scale. As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. There is effectively no churn of connections, even at peak traffic.

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Traffic Servers Google Metrics 170

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, Sentinel policies can enforce rules such as "All AWS S3 buckets must have server-side encryption enabled" or "Only specific IAM roles can access certain resources." OPA can be integrated with a wide range of tools and systems, making it highly versatile. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52