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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. What is always-on infrastructure?

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Visual Network Mapping Your K8s Clusters To Assess Performance

DZone

Tons of technologies emerge daily, promising capabilities that help you surpass your performance benchmarks. Growing organizations, in the process of upscaling their services, unintentionally introduce complexities into the system. Knowing how the infrastructure is set up and how clusters operate and communicate are crucial.

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Why applying chaos engineering to data-intensive applications matters

Dynatrace

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

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).

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

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What is application modernization? How to pick an application modernization strategy

Dynatrace

Based on IDC’s research, 83% of enterprises are rationalizing, or optimizing, their technology infrastructure. According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. What is application modernization?

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