Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At Dynatrace we host most of our Dynatrace SaaS clusters for paying customers as well as trial users in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%! The AWS team confirmed a known hardware issue affecting a certain amount of EC2 machines in that region.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 179

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., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 182

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system. Dynamic applications with ephemeral services.

Cloud 226

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 226

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. Serverless container services.

Serverless 218

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 218

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).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure , DigitalOcean. Are you a startup that has free AWS or Azure hosting credits you’d like to use for your database hosting? Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 343

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 343

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. You never know a company (or person) until you see them on their worst day.

Wireless 145

Wireless Hardware Open Source AWS 145

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. Hardware was outdated. Fixed hardware is a single point of failure – even when we had redundant machines. Keep hardware and browsers updated at all times. Sound easy?

Cloud 201

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 201

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

While to-date it’s been possible to integrate Dynatrace Managed for intelligent monitoring of services running on AWS and Azure, today we’re excited to announce the release of our Dynatrace Managed marketplace listing for the Google Cloud Platform. For more details, see Dynatrace Managed hardware and systems requirements.

Cloud 209

Cloud Availability Azure Google 209

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. 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.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. billion in 2020 to $4.1

Analytics 209

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 209

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. We have been working on an auto-diagnosis and remediation system called Pensive in the data platform to address these concerns.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work? Limited visibility.

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? Once the AWS Storage Gatewayâ??s Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

. “The team did a two-part attack on that, where we rapidly added more physical infrastructure, but also expanded the Citrix environment into all five CSP regions that we had available to us in the government clouds from Azure and AWS,” Catanoso explains. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

Cloud 177

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 177

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. The science has spawned specialized chaos engineers who dedicate themselves to disrupting cloud software and the on-prem systems they interact with to make them resilient. Unclear starting system state.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). As GS2 relies on AWS EC2 Auto Scaling to target-track CPU utilization, we thought we just had to redeploy the service on the larger instance type and wait for the ASG (Auto Scaling Group) to settle on the CPU target. let’s call it GS2?—?to

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. How do you make a system observable? Dynatrace news.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 107

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 177

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 177

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. We understand the dependencies between the mainframe, data center, and cloud, including all application components and even end-user experience.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. Certified Information Systems Security Professional a.k.a.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. You never know a company (or person) until you see them on their worst day.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

While optimizing delivery is very important, I haven’t focused enough on how Dynatrace helps IT Service Operation teams answer key questions they are faced with every day in their demanding job to keep Service Levels of their systems, services and applications within the defined agreements (SLAs).

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. For Physalia, and for AWS more generally, the guiding principle is minimise the blast radius. A guiding principle.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106