Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. based financial services group, discussed how the bank uses log monitoring on the Dynatrace platform with an emphasis on observability and security data.

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Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 193

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Metadata synchronization (sync) is a core feature in Alluxio that keeps files and directories consistent with their source of truth in under-storage systems, thus making it simple for users to reason the data retrieved from Alluxio. Meanwhile, understanding the internal process is important in order to tune the performance.

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Design Storage Tuning Systems 244

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Cloud computing? And Hadoop rolled in. Until it wasn’t.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

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.),

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Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Recent improvements in OneAgent runtime-data handling. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Starting with OneAgent version 1.199, the runtime folder is configurable and consequently you can retain your storage mount point setup as-is.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 150

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 183

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kubernetes was initially designed with a strong focus on stateless workloads, meaning these workloads do not need to store any persistent data. Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). Stay tuned.

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Storage Database Network Metrics 193

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

For example, a supported syslog component must support the masking of sensitive data at capture to avoid transmitting personally identifiable information or other confidential data over the network. This will enable you to use Dynatrace ActiveGate to ingest syslog data.

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Open Source Infrastructure Network Government 206

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 124

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With MyRocks/RocksDB, data is stored in a set of large SST files. Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB.

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Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 125

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Legacy data center infrastructure and software support have kept all the benefits of ARM at, well… arm’s length. This is a crucial factor for all data centers, cloud or managed, where power consumption and cooling costs are reflected in the total cost of ownership.

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Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 271

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. is 220 Mbps.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

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C++ Database Storage Testing 77

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In order to train the model on internal training data (video clips with aligned text descriptions), we implemented a scalable version on Ray Train and switched to a more performant video decoding library. We also found that extending contrastive learning to videos and text provided a substantial improvement over frame-level models.

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Media Social Media Tuning Efficiency 225

n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

Effect of removing CPU constraints and maintaining data locality on a running DB instance. As the DB continues to run on the new host – the Nutanix storage detects the access patterns and “localizes” the data that the DB is accessing. The Postgres DB is totally un-tuned and contains purely default settings.

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Benchmarking Storage Tuning Cache 76

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

On average, ScaleGrid provides over 30% more storage vs. DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL at the same affordable price. Latency is the average transaction execution time of your PostgreSQL data. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL provides on average 42.3% lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. Compare Pricing. DigitalOcean PostgreSQL.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Many AWS services and third party solutions use AWS S3 for log storage. Centralized log management for scalable ingestion into Grail As AWS S3 proves to be the preferred way of storing cloud logs, enterprise customers face mounting challenges in putting S3 log data to use.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics 204

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Earlier we shared the details of one of these algorithms , introduced how our platform team is evolving the media-specific machine learning ecosystem , and discussed how data from these algorithms gets stored in our annotation service. It allowed us to transparently update the algo data without users knowing about it.

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Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

The Apache Spark + Alluxio stack is getting quite popular particularly for the unification of data access across S3 and HDFS. In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance.

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Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 133

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 134

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Building on its advanced analytics capabilities for Prometheus data , Dynatrace now enables you to create extensions based on Prometheus metrics. Without any coding, these extensions make it easy to ingest data from these technologies and provide tailor-made analysis views and zero-config alerting. Customizable dashboard.

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Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 222

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Oracle requires more complex ongoing administration, as all database configurations must evolve in conjunction with the data schemas and custom code. CitusDB – distributes data and queries horizontally across nodes.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

AUGUST 10, 2018

avi@percona:~$ps -eaf | egrep "/post|autovacuum" postgres 2862 1 0 Jun17 pts/0 00:00:11 /usr/pgsql-10/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/10/data postgres 2868 2862 0 Jun17 ? This may help tune your table level autovacuum settings appropriately. Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL. Why is autovacuum needed ?

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Tuning Cache Database Storage 44

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Before we dive into the technical implementation, let me explain the visual concept of this “Global Status Page”: Another requirement for this status page was that it has to be lightweight, with no data storage at all. Websockets allows efficient data push via multicast to browsers and D3.js js framework.

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Storage Architecture Tuning Efficiency 211

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Did this issue result from the order in which the user added the data or the speed with which they selected the UI controls? . Data protection by default. As with all Dynatrace features, Session Replay for crashes in iOS was designed with data privacy in mind. Is this issue the result of a specific input from the user?

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Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage 198

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

In addition, hoarding digital data is expensive. Cutting back on the amount of data you store can lead to big savings. Consider alternative tools, systems, and services: Many cloud providers offer long-term storage, serverless options, or component options for specific needs, with vastly different pricing models.

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Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 80

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Announcing seamless integration of OpenTracing data into Dynatrace PurePath 4.

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Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 239

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly. The dialing steps can also be scoped at the data center level if traffic is served from multiple data centers. The dial also acts as a switch to turn off all writes to the new data store if necessary.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279