DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we will explore one of the most common and useful resilience patterns in distributed systems: the circuit breaker. The circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures and improves the overall availability and performance of a system. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Any service provider tries to reach several metrics in their activity. One group of these metrics is service quality. Quality metrics contain: The ratio of successfully processed requests. Distribution of processing time between requests. Number of requests dependent curves.

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Particular Software

JUNE 28, 2021

From Udi Dahan's free Distributed Systems Design Fundamentals video course Semantic interoperability The true challenge of non-homogenous networks lies in semantic interoperability. Consider for a moment a software system for a hospital emergency room. Thus, in the hospital ER system, birthdate is a nullable field.

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Enter IoT device management — the suite of tools and practices designed to monitor, maintain, and update these interconnected devices. Efficient device management allows organizations to handle this vast network without hitches. Secure cryptographic methods establish its identity and grant it access to the network.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the paradigm of zero trust architecture , Privileged Access Management (PAM) is emerging as a key component in a cybersecurity strategy, designed to control and monitor privileged access within an organization.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. The FL system contains a number of privacy-enhancing building blocks, but the privacy guarantees of any end-to-end system will always depend on how they are used.

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Percona

JULY 20, 2023

We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. TCP/IP connection, triggered me to write about other aspects of network impact on performance. How to detect and measure the impact There is no easy mechanism for measuring the impact of network overhead.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. traditional software) to a Software 2.0 In Software 1.0

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DZone

MARCH 20, 2023

Microservices architecture has gained popularity recently as a technique for creating sophisticated and scalable software systems. Microservices are scalable, independently deployable services that talk to one another across a network. HTTP and messaging are two popular methods for microservices communication.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

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DZone

JANUARY 11, 2024

Unlike traditional computer designs that employ von Neumann-based processors, neuromorphic chips mimic the neural network topology of the brain, allowing more efficient and adaptive computing systems.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt). To many designers and developers the process of designing for mobile assumes that touch is natural, so we don’t need to pay any particular attention to the design of touch systems.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. Some tools demand the installation of agents on those systems and provide complex, disconnected views.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. What’s left is a design whereby Snap runs as userspace ‘microkernel’, which applications communicate with using shared memory reads and writes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2024

The Network and Information Systems 2 (NIS2) Directive, which goes into effect in Oct 2024, aims to enhance the security of network and information systems throughout the EU. NIS2 is an evolution of the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Security Directive, which has been in effect since 2016.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

This subscription model offers the flexibility to deploy Dynatrace even more broadly to gain greater visibility into system performance, improve the ability to detect and prevent bottlenecks, and quickly detect and diagnose problems. There may be network bottlenecks that you’re unaware of or unreported system crashes and errors.

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DZone

JULY 26, 2022

Development and designing are crucial, yet equally significant is making sure that you have developed the software product as per the necessities.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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Testlodge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, it’s usual for software to have been designed with a specific use in mind, but the user doesn’t always understand the same way as the developers and testers. ” Destructive testing is a method that uses the system in a way other than intended to make the software program deliberately fail. Automated Tools.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. Dynatrace is proud to be an AWS launch partner in support of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). How does Dynatrace help?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition). It doesn’t really matter if you’re a front-end dev, UX designer or content strategist, we’re certain you’ll find at least something to inspire you for the upcoming year.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. But manual configuration of observability for systems like this is nearly impossible.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This update improves the ability to observe Citrix users and delivery agents within a Citrix environment using the Citrix SDK, which is designed specifically for Citrix admins. Dynatrace collects metrics and topology information from load balancers and analyzes these critical network devices for performance and health.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Systems are constantly changing, with pods existing only briefly to perform tasks before they’re terminated. The ongoing and continuous tracking of network and service-level communication of pods in Kubernetes enables Dynatrace to easily discover any unintended egress traffic (i.e., Network metrics for all containerized environments.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 3, 2024

As a result, they may fail to consider the importance of full-stack observability, dashboards, AI-driven automation, application security, and other factors when designing their security operations strategy. Consider the seemingly countless metrics derived from modern container orchestration systems.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Networking.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 15, 2020

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Each team had its favorite tool—whether for networking, development, or database management—and Odigo needed to centralize. “We It’s much more complex to see the customer side: his own network, his own laptop. We can react even before we have an incident in our systems,” Lascoux said. “We

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Observability tools can provide insights into resource utilization metrics, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and network throughput. This includes spot instances such as unused cloud capacity that’s available at a discounted price.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For system administrators, operations engineers, and others with strong systems and software backgrounds, there’s perhaps no better time than the present to transition into DevOps. Interviews can range from standard software engineer coding questions to questions on system design, Linux debugging, and DevOps tools.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Orbital edge computing: nanosatellite constellations as a new class of computer system , Denby & Lucia, ASPLOS’20. Last time out we looked at the real-world deployment of 5G networks and noted the affinity between 5G and edge computing. Nanosatellite systems have a GSD of around 3.0m/px. Satellites are changing!

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