Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although IT teams are thorough in checking their code for any errors, an attacker can always discover a loophole to exploit and damage applications, infrastructure, and critical data. half of all corporate networks. Recently, the industry has seen an increase in attempted attacks on zero-day vulnerabilities.

Java 191

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 191

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Setting up clear rules for managing your cloud infrastructure is key to keeping things from getting out of hand. Adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) makes transitioning to a multi-cloud architecture more efficient, allowing streamlined setup processes. Scalegrid: Your Multi-Cloud Strategy Solution ScaleGrid.io

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. The neural network (NN)-based agent uses a deep net with fully connected layers.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Apica

APRIL 11, 2023

A solution should have packet capture abilities that provide low-level network scraping capability, ideally producing PCAP files for analysis. Establish performance benchmarks to help you identify when your applications perform as designed before impacting the user experience. Debugging is a must for effective application development.

IoT 52

IoT Benchmarking Scalability Network 52

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Further, and by chance, iOS usage is strongly correlated with regions we generally find to have better infrastructure. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. Network Link Conditioner. somewhere sensible.

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

Open Source 79

Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaS businesses are built upon the simplicity of computing, storage, and networking they provide to their users. Once SLAs are established, you need to consistently monitor your SaaS business infrastructure along with web and mobile applications to make sure they meet the defined thresholds. Infrastructure.

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Monitoring Mobile Benchmarking 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

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. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Synthetic monitoring vendors provide a remote (often global) infrastructure that visits a website periodically and records the performance data for each run. Benchmark Against Competitors. Then, they can effectively benchmark their own performance against those key competitors over time. Synthetic Monitoring.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Prepare the testing environment: Make sure your hardware and network configurations closely reflect real world conditions. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Network scanners. Why is container security tricky?

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

How Dynatrace tracks and mitigates its own IT carbon footprint Like many tech companies, Dynatrace is experiencing increased demand for its SaaS-based Dynatrace platform , which we host on cloud infrastructure. As we onboard more customers, the platform requires more infrastructure, leading to increased carbon emissions.

Energy 239

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 239

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Hybrid cloud environments that integrate on-premises infrastructure with cloud services. These include on-premises data centers which offer specific business benefits.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Barry is a professional software developer who has nearly two decades of industry experience developing and supporting software and infrastructure.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Components of high availability infrastructure Multiple copies of data Data redundancy helps prevent data loss due to hardware or software failures.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript. These are generous targets.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. position: sticky.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

High availability architecture Two previously mentioned absolutes — no SPOF and foolproof failover — must apply across the following areas if an HA architecture is to be achieved: Infrastructure — This is the hardware that database systems rely on. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? Competitive & Industry Benchmarking. With a Synthetic product, benchmarking a competitor’s site is as easy as testing your own site…you simply provide a URL. Benchmarking your performance against your competitors and industries.

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this case, we are not going to be talking about infrastructure services, such as a cloud computing platform like Microsoft Azure or a content distribution network like Akamai. And JavaScript can certainly make requests for additional network resources.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

an environment variable like network connectivity changed over time and is not aligned with the assumption with which test automation was built initially. Testsigma is one such test automation tool with a package of multiple useful features like cloud-based test case creation that does not require any infrastructure setup or investment.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. Folks with powerful laptops, new iPhones, and low-latency networks are noticing, which is a very bad sign. Teams looking to grow past Level 1 develop (or uncover they already had) Real User Monitoring (" RUM data") infrastructure in previous cycles.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

Also, load-balancing after membership changes must be both multi-threaded and pipelined to drive the network at maximum bandwidth. This measures how well the IMDG’s servers use multithreading to maximize network bandwidth during load-balancing, and it also evaluates failure detection and recovery algorithms. Please retry later.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. There is also a wide network of Oracle partners available to help you negotiate a discount , typically ranging from 15%-30%, though larger discounts of up to 40%-60% are available for larger accounts.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Infrastructure Optimization. What Infrastructure Do You Use? How do you health check your server and networks? Document store. Video Transcoding. Video Transcoding.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52