Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

Retail 226

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 226

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. What are the key advantages of DBMS?

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic 266

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 266

Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

Modern IT organizations are generating more data from more tools and technologies than ever. Data is proliferating in separate silos from containers and Kubernetes to open source APIs and software to serverless compute services, such as AWS and Azure. However, they had numerous custom applications with separate APIs.

Open Source 199

Open Source Google Serverless Azure 199

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency 230

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 230

DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. Istio, one of the most popular service meshes, uses Envoy as its data plane. Intelligent autoscaling: Adjusts resource allocation based on demand and performance.

Traffic 261

Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring 261

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

Analytics 190

Analytics Java Infrastructure Cloud 190

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. These could include issues with vulnerable and outdated components, injections, and software and data integrity failures.

Monitoring 217

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 217

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

Traffic 199

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 199

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 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

Speed 212

Speed Software Software Latency 212

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A Common Mistake Which Everyone does When it Comes to Measure Performance of Dynamic Content‍Monitoring the performance of your traffic is vital. IT experts frequently rely on the performance measurements of static content, as a strong indication of Edge platform functionality.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Traffic C++ 52

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

DZone

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Data is ubiquitous. But, performance testing is a little tricky. If you sniff the traffic, you don't get any network data. If you are working on Shiny apps performance testing, then this blog article is for you. Shiny from R Studio helps to build interactive web applications from R.

Testing 266

Testing Performance Testing Traffic Network 266

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

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 10, 2023

There was a comment on Twitter today from Rafael Gonzaga expressing disappointment in what he sees as a tendency to focus on the frontend solely in performance discussions, while neglecting the server-side aspect. Revisiting the golden rule Way back in 2006, Tenni Theurer first wrote about the 80 / 20 rule as it applied web performance.

Performance 111

Performance Servers Mobile Metrics 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A Common Mistake Which Everyone does When it Comes to Measure Performance of Dynamic Content‍Monitoring the performance of your traffic is vital. IT experts frequently rely on the performance measurements of static content, as a strong indication of Edge platform functionality.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Traffic C++ 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Security analytics is a discipline within IT security that focuses on proactive threat prevention using data analysis. A proactive approach to application security is essential: by constantly collecting and analyzing data, security analytics enables teams to catch problems before they escalate.

Analytics 187

Analytics Engineering Cloud Traffic 187

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #1 Get to know UTM-parameters.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. 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.

Best Practices 227

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 227

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

Serverless 213

Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 213

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Reliability space, our data teams focus on two main approaches. Canaries ), detection and improved KPIs.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

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 220

Website Monitoring Retail Media 220

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2024

Each of these errors is a canceled request resulting in a retry so this reduction further reduces overall service traffic by this rate: Errors rates per second. We have several frameworks that periodically refresh large amounts of on-heap data to avoid external service calls for efficiency. There is no best garbage collector.

Latency 228

Latency Java Tuning Efficiency 228

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Flow log data can be published to Amazon CloudWatch Logs or Amazon S3 after which you can retrieve and view its data in the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform. What is VPC Flow Logs.

AWS 223

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 223

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

This project implements multiple techniques and tactics to censor China’s internet and controls the internet gateways to analyze, filter, and manipulate the internet traffic between inside and outside of China. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs cache content on edge servers distributed globally, reducing the distance between users and the content they want.‍CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

CDNs use load-balancing techniques to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers called Points of Presence (PoPs) which distribute content closer to end-users and improve overall performance. Performance‍The number and distribution of PoPs play a crucial role in performance. ‍What is CDN Architecture?‍CDN

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. The queries are depicted below (sensitive data has been removed).

DevOps 192

DevOps Traffic Latency Best Practices 192

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 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

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 59

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 59

Speed Curve

JULY 10, 2023

Demonstrating the impact of performance on your users – and on your business – is one of the best ways to get your company to care about the speed of your site. In 2010, the Performance and Reliability team I was fortunate enough to lead at Walmartlabs shared our findings around the impact of front-end times on conversion rates.

Performance 52

Performance Metrics Traffic Speed 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. Let’s start with the spike in load: The high demand on family visa enrollments resulted in a huge traffic and CPU spike. But where does all this data allocation come from? Now – this is not the end of the blog.

Java 227

Java Traffic Government Code 227

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How do we make the data accessible beyond the use cases that Dynatrace gives you, beyond observability and security?” For Dynatrace customers, identifying root cause comes via Davis AI , the Grail data lakehouse , which unifies data silos, and Smartscape , which topologically maps all cloud entities and relationships.

Innovation 202

Innovation DevOps Cloud Efficiency 202

Jos

MARCH 13, 2020

Web Performance is important for user experience and business metrics. This post explains several ways of assessing the potential performance gains with little effort and, more importantly, without actually implementing fixes. What is the business opportunity for web performance improvements? I would repeat over and over.

Performance 130

Performance Google Mobile Analytics 130