Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. With Dynatrace actively managing business-critical applications, some of our globally distributed enterprise customers require Dynatrace Managed to continue operating even when an entire data center goes down. Minimized cross-data center network traffic.

Availability 237

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 237

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Concatenating our files on the server: Are we going to send many smaller files, or are we going to send one monolithic file? Compressing them over the network: Which compression algorithm, if any, will we use? 4,362ms of cumulative latency; 240ms of cumulative download. Read the complete test methodology. That’s almost 22× more!

Cache 291

Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But let’s see what the wait events look like if the network slows down.

Network 62

Network Performance Latency Servers 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

Metrics 163

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 163

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 353

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running. Titus Gateway handles user requests.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. What is Microsoft Hyper-V?

Efficiency 203

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 203

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

MongoDB drivers provide several options for Mongo clients to handle different network timeout errors that may occur during usage. Typical applications are interacting with different database servers based on the business logic. Primarily there are three kinds: Server selection timeout, Connection Timeout, and Socket Timeout.

Java 130

Java Network Servers Database 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

It employs the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) to provide reliable, scalable message passing, crucial for modern applications dealing with large-scale, complex data flows. It plays a critical role by assigning tasks, which trims down the delivery times for web application servers and enhances overall productivity.

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity.

Best Practices 212

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 212

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts.

Artificial Intelligence 191

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 191

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 95

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

Performance 127

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2023

Customers can use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to improve performance for latency-sensitive applications and return larger payload sizes. The difference is the owner of the Lambda function does not have to worry about provisioning and managing servers. Return larger payload sizes.

Lambda 204

Lambda AWS Serverless Latency 204

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. OSDI’20.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. But what else is TTFB? Expect closer to 75ms.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Our Dedicated Hosting plans are all-inclusive, including all machine, disk, and network costs, as well as 24/7 support. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. So, if you’re hosting your application in AWS or Azure and move your database to DigitalOcean, you will see an increase in latency.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Despite the name, serverless computing still uses servers. This means companies can access the exact resources they need whenever they need them, rather than paying for server space and computing power they only need occasionally. If servers reach maximum load and capacity in-house, something has to give before adding new services.

Serverless 158

Serverless Infrastructure Lambda Latency 158

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A lower RTT indicates a faster network response time and happier end users. What is a CDN?‍A What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. To make this happen, we developed an effective data compression technique by cleverly bucketing our data.

Metrics 143

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 143

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. What is replication lag?

Latency 79

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 79

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. To make this happen, we developed an effective data compression technique by cleverly bucketing our data.

Metrics 140

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 140

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Due to the massive amount of data, no one knew what action to take if a number went red. In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency. This represents the total number of requests across the network.

Automotive 260

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 260

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. Once the 60 seconds is up, the browser will head back to the server to revalidate the file. public and private.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. To make this happen, we developed an effective data compression technique by cleverly bucketing our data.

Metrics 130

Metrics Strategy Efficiency Testing 130

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. It is common to see a value of “ 0″ ( or sometimes “10” ) on database servers, telling the kernel to prefer to swap to memory for better response times. A setting of 100 determines it to swap aggressively to disk.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

Monitoring 192

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 192

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allowed Android engineers to have much more control and observability over how we get our data. Background The Netflix Android app uses the falcor data model and query protocol. For example, the artwork service is separate from the video metadata service, but we need the data from both in the detail key.

Latency 233

Latency Cache Java Traffic 233