InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 55

Architecture Scalability Latency Traffic 55

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Unfortunately, my excitement was short lived for a couple of reasons.

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

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 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

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. With an on-prem data center, the organization bears the burden of securing the physical infrastructure and its digital assets. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Space constraint has been an endless and painstaking process for many of us, especially in systems that have a high number of transactions and data growth exceeding hundreds of GBs in a matter of days. There is an excellent blog you may want to follow for mysql data archival with minimal disruption. 1 mysql mysql 9.0G ibd -rw-r --.

Traffic 61

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 61

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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 214

Website Monitoring Retail Media 214

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

While our engineering teams have and continue to build solutions to lighten this cognitive load (better guardrails, improved tooling, …), data and its derived products are critical elements to understanding, optimizing and abstracting our infrastructure. In the Reliability space, our data teams focus on two main approaches.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you are running a distributed system where each request talks to more than a couple of services, databases, and a queuing system, pinpointing the cause of an issue is not a trivial affair. One of the biggest challenges plaguing widespread adoption is the sheer volume of trace data.

Strategy 100

Strategy Traffic Database Systems 100

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 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. Undetected, the compromised code could allow attackers to access data they’re not authorized to have.

Traffic 163

Traffic Java Network DevOps 163

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

Open Source 98

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 98

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. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

Traffic 200

Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 200

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

Data-at-rest encryption is essential for compliance with regulations that require the protection of sensitive data. It is also critical for securing sensitive data and avoiding data breaches. PostgreSQL does not natively support Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Now your cluster runs using encrypted storage.

Storage 123

Storage AWS Cloud Database 123

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. Unsynchronized and siloed data prevents real-time decision-making and business automation. Business data must be accurate to instill the confidence to make business decisions. Multi-channel logistics.

Retail 201

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 201

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the worst case, you have to inform customers and the public about security breaches and stolen data. 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.

Traffic 233

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 233

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Traffic Manager. Azure Batch. Azure Front Door.

Azure 147

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 147

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Due to the massive amount of data, no one knew what action to take if a number went red. These four dimensions apply to any layer in the technical stack, such as front-end, databases, and external services. The rows thereafter report the health of front-end, databases, and external services. So, what did they do? Saturation.

Automotive 269

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 269

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Dynatrace just makes this easy—it comes out-of-the-box, no silos of data, no DIY stitching together tools, no wasted time, and no wasted resources. . Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. A Dynatrace Managed cluster may lack the necessary hardware to process all the additional incoming data.

Processing 153

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 153

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 83

Cache Latency Traffic Database 83

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is particularly beneficial during high-traffic periods or when serving content to a large audience.All of these benefits apply to modern applications that process user thumbnails. This increased server load can strain server resources, especially during high-traffic periods. What is Dynamic Content?Dynamic

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Memcached is in-memory key value store whereas Redis is in-memory data structures store. Memcached supports only string data type which is ideal for storing read-only data. Redis supports almost all types of data. Means that data might be lost in Memcached after a reboot of the server/machine.

Software Architecture 100

Software Architecture Traffic Efficiency Website 100

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

These checkpoint events enable faster state reconstruction by consumers of the data feed while guarding against missed updates. CockroachDB is chosen as the backing data store since it offered SQL capabilities, and our data model for the device records was normalized.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, our customers often want to augment the data Dynatrace provides with data from third-party tools. Dynatrace Grail  is a data lakehouse that provides context-rich analytics capabilities for observability, security, and business data. To keep it real, we have a load generator that creates benign traffic.

Analytics 194

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 194

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store. Edgar uses this infrastructure tagging schema to query and join traces with log data for troubleshooting streaming sessions. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses. Another aspect of automation is to switch the traffic for the application from Main to Standby after promotion.

Storage 123

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 123

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

On the first node, Patroni initializes the database, obtains the leader lock from DCS, and ensures the node is being run as the master. This section contains the PostgreSQL-specific parameters like authentication, directory paths for data, binary and config, listen ip address etc. Corosync traffic was blocked on the master server.

Availability 277

Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is particularly beneficial during high-traffic periods or when serving content to a large audience.All of these benefits apply to modern applications that process user thumbnails. This increased server load can strain server resources, especially during high-traffic periods.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. Comments ().

Wireless 107

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Fixed an issue in which database conditions in tagging and management zone configurations were evaluated incorrectly. Resolved issue to prevent UI crash when results contain no data.

Operating System 229

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 229

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

Analytics 209

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 209

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

For heads of IT/Engineering responsible for building an analytics infrastructure , Etleap is an ETL solution for creating perfect data pipelines from day one. PerfOps is a data platform that digests real-time performance data for CDN and DNS providers as measured by real users worldwide. Advertise your event here!

Java 116

Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

MySQL uses Redo Logs internally during crash recovery to correct data written by incomplete transactions. If you want an answer based on detailed information about your database usage and patterns, it’s recommended to use Percona Management and Monitoring. But how do you know what the right Redo Log size is? MySQL versions 8.0.30

Tuning 92

Tuning Open Source Database Engineering 92