Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

We have deployed Auto Remediation in production for handling memory configuration errors and unclassified errors of Spark jobs and observed its efficiency and effectiveness (e.g., For efficient error handling, Netflix developed an error classification service, called Pensive, which leverages a rule-based classifier for error classification.

Tuning 210

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Their design emphasizes increasing availability by spreading out files among different nodes or servers — this approach significantly reduces risks associated with losing or corrupting data due to node failure. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. This evolution in automation, referred to as answer-driven automation, empowers teams to address complex issues in real time, optimize workflows, and enhance overall operational efficiency.

DevOps 217

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Deploying a multi-cloud environment involves a concerted effort in planning, negotiation with vendors, skill development, and understanding the advanced use cases of a multi-cloud approach for tailored industry solutions and compliance. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. The Four Pillars of CDN Design‍CDN architecture can be broken down into several building blocks, known as the Four Pillars of CDN Design.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. As The New Stack reports, developers spend only 32% of their time at work actually coding.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We’ll discuss how the responsibilities of ITOps teams changed with the rise of cloud technologies and agile development methodologies. ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. What is ITOps?

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. DevOps is focused on optimizing software development and delivery, and SRE is focused on operations processes. Organizations often need to do some team building to synthesize the objectives of developers and operations.

DevOps 186

DevOps Software Engineering Speed Google 186

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. Snappy compression is designed to be fast and efficient regarding memory usage, making it a good fit for MongoDB workloads.

Storage 111

Storage Network Open Source Latency 111

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

How we migrated our Android endpoints out of a monolith into a new microservice by Rohan Dhruva , Ed Ballot As Android developers, we usually have the luxury of treating our backends as magic boxes running in the cloud, faithfully returning us JSON. It was a Node.js Java…Script?

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

False negatives are closely related to the statistical concept of power , which gives the probability of a true positive given the experimental design and a true effect of a specific size. In the product development context, we can increase the expected magnitude of metric movements by being bold vs incremental with the hypotheses we test.

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Testing Latency Metrics Innovation 202

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. When an edge server goes down, end users in the affected region may experience an increase in latency for that specific location.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. even lowered the latency by introducing a multi-headed device that collapses switches and memory controllers. The recently announced CXL3.0

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

DevOps and SRE: Methodologies that are transforming software development with the help of DevOps observability. DevOps is a software delivery methodology that comprises flexible practices and processes to create and deliver applications and services, ultimately closing the gap between software development and IT operations.

DevOps 194

DevOps Best Practices Innovation Strategy 194

Dynatrace

JANUARY 13, 2022

Synthetic monitoring is also useful for developing baselines of performance. Analyzing a clinician’s clickstream when using an electronic medical record system to better improve the efficiency of data entry. Providing insight into the service latency to help developers identify poorly performing code.

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Monitoring Latency Mobile Best Practices 176

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s been clear for a while that software designed explicitly for the data center environment will increasingly want/need to make different design trade-offs to e.g. general-purpose systems software that you might install on your own machines. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Jack Dongarra talked about the scores, and pointed out the low efficiency on some important workloads.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

service availability with <50ms latency for an application with no revenue impact. SLOs created by upper management without buy-in from relevant development, operations, and SRE stakeholders can lead to finger-pointing, blaming, and chaotic war rooms when violations occur. Pitfall 2: SLOs with no ownership or accountability.

DevOps 192

DevOps Metrics Best Practices Latency 192

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The goal of observability is to understand what’s happening across all these environments and among the technologies, so you can detect and resolve issues to keep your systems efficient and reliable and your customers happy. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As developers, we rightfully obsess about the customer experience, relentlessly working to squeeze every millisecond out of the critical rendering path, optimize input latency, and eliminate jank. Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. Ilya Grigorik.

Cache 135

Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

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). Real-user monitoring (RUM).

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 200

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

The answer for me is simple: Developers want their applications to be well architected and scale effectively. The days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and developers are now building highly distributed applications using a multitude of purpose-built databases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. are divided. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

Making queries to an inference engine has many of the same throughput, latency, and cost considerations as making queries to a datastore, and more and more applications are coming to depend on such queries. The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50.

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Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Like any move, a cloud migration requires a lot of planning and preparation, but it also has the potential to transform the scope, scale, and efficiency of how you deliver value to your customers. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. Here are three.

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163