Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. As an open-source project, OpenTelemetry sets standards for telemetry data sets and works with a wide range of systems and platforms to collect and export telemetry data to backend systems. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

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DZone

JANUARY 10, 2025

SQL Server is a powerful relational database management system (RDBMS), but as datasets grow in size and complexity, optimizing their performance becomes critical. Leveraging AI can revolutionize query optimization and predictive maintenance, ensuring the database remains efficient, secure, and responsive.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

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DZone

APRIL 19, 2023

Linux is a complex operating system, undoubtedly very secure but complex, especially for users who never had experience working on the Linux platform. In this article, I will explain how we can move the system databases to different locations in Ubuntu Linux. I am using root user.

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DZone

APRIL 15, 2025

Each SQL Server database contains a transaction log file (.ldf) This log file is an important part of the database, and SQL Server uses it to restore the database to a consistent state in case of system failure. While attaching the SQL database, you also require the transaction log file, along with the MDF file.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2025

And yet we see little substance that addresses a critical engineering challenge of these ambitious systems: How do these independent agents, built by different teams using different tech, often with completely opaque inner workings, actually collaborate? What we think comes next in the area of multi-agent system design.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Maintaining optimal application performance is crucial for businesses, and fast databases are vital in achieving this goal. For an effective approach to database performance, it’s crucial to have a comprehensive overview of all databases, including server-side DBs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Running Databases efficiently is crucial for business success Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that result in data loss or downtime. However, horizontal scaling of these databases can take time and effort.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 10, 2025

With the goal of building a flexible, configuration-driven system, we looked to server-driven UI (SDUI) as an appealing solution. Initial Tudum data architecture The high-level diagram above focuses on storage & distribution, illustrating how we leveraged Kafka to separate the write and read databases.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Previously, our application was using one database; developers knew how it worked, and the deployment rarely happened. A single database administrator was capable of maintaining the database, optimizing the queries, and making sure things worked as expected. Cloud and microservices changed the world.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Understanding the structures within a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is critical to optimizing performance and managing data effectively. Here's a breakdown of the concepts with examples. RDBMS Structures 1.

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DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM trees) are a powerful data structure widely used in modern databases to efficiently handle write-heavy workloads. They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures.

Strategy 244

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re running SAP, you’re likely already familiar with the HANA relational database management system. However, if you’re an operations engineer who’s been tasked with migrating to HANA from a legacy database system, you’ll need to get up to speed quickly.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When deployed on bare-metal clusters or cloud VMs, database administrators are responsible for adding and removing nodes in a clustered system, planning the changes at times of low load to minimize disruption to production workloads.

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DZone

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the era of the Internet of Things ( IoT) , the continuous influx of spatial and temporal data from interconnected devices has given rise to a vast and intricate landscape, demanding a sophisticated approach to database management.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dynatrace business events address these systemic problems, delivering real-time business observability to business and IT teams with the precision and context required to support data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes. Data is not delivered in real time; it’s often delayed by weeks or longer.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2025

They need a real-time, end-to-end view of IT systems’ behavior and its direct impact on business outcomes, such as customer experience, conversions, and revenue. For example: System failures can cause disruptions to critical services, creating ripple effects across the business.

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DZone

AUGUST 1, 2024

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Database Systems: Modernization for Data-Driven Architectures. Time series data has become an essential part of data collection in various fields due to its ability to capture trends, patterns, and anomalies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2025

These systems are revolutionizing how enterprises automate tasks and orchestrate complex workflows. Powered by LLMs, vector databases, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and additional tools, these AI agents are expanding extensively, giving rise to multi-agent systems, cross-agent protocols, and context-sharing standards.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

Open Source 147

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2025

In the query example below, taken before the introduction of DQL search, we attempt to filter within spans where any event sent from an Oracle database contains the phrase “error” Figure 1. Examining data takes too long, and probing for issues is tricky for those who don’t know the complexities of the data structure.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Understanding Teradata Data Distribution and Performance Optimization Teradata performance optimization and database tuning are crucial for modern enterprise data warehouses.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2025

Heres more about the VMware security advisory and how you can quickly find affected systems using Dynatrace so you canautomate remediation efforts. With a TOCTOU vulnerability, an attacker can manipulate a system between the time a resource’s state is checked and when it’s used, also known as a race condition.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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Latency Systems Serverless Media 238

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2025

In some systems, such events, which are crucial to daily operations, can appear as single large log entries and can easily reach sizes larger than 3 MB. Use case #3: National rail operator Previously, our customer had to tail and process log event records from their signaling systems using shell scripts.

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Retail Airlines Healthcare Transportation 184

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2025

SAP systems are used by many of the worlds largest enterprises, powering everything from finance to supply chain operations. However, monitoring SAP systems can be extremely challenging. PowerConnect-instrumented SAP systems feed observability signals straight into the Dynatrace platform.

Monitoring 184

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2025

Monitoring MySQL databases is essential for maintaining performance, detecting issues early, and ensuring efficient resource use by tracking critical metrics. With MySQL supporting various applications, its important to have the right tools in place to monitor database health and performance.

Monitoring 147

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

You might have state-of-the-art surveillance systems and guards at the main entrance, but if a side door is left unlocked, all the security becomes meaningless. etcd database The etcd Database is the brain of your cluster, storing all configuration data that the API server uses to verify and maintain the cluster state.

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Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 3, 2025

Monitoring distributed systems is essential to keep your system running smoothly, efficiently, and reliably. With the growing reliance on distributed systems in everything from web services to cloud computing and large-scale applications, having a robust monitoring setup is crucial.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2025

Distributed tracing best practices key takeaways: Visualize and understand your system. Visualize and understand your system Planning Requirements gathering Design Before implementing changes or designing new features, its essential to have a clear understanding of your system’s current state.

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Percona Community

JULY 9, 2025

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed what active-active databases are and identified some “good” reasons for considering them, primarily centered around extreme high availability and critical write availability during regional outages. But active-active is not a panaceum for general slowness. Resolution logic becomes critical.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility. Start your free trial today!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 9, 2025

Kinesh Satiya Introduction In a digital advertising platform, a robust feedback system is essential for the lifecycle and success of an ad campaign. This system comprises of diverse sub-systems designed to monitor, measure, and optimize ad campaigns. The tracking information is packed into a structured protobuf data model.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. According to 2023 statistics, 49% of web applications use an SQL-based database , with SQL having a 75% adoption rate in the IT industry.

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