InfoQ

JANUARY 26, 2024

Discord optimized its platform to serve over one million online users in a single server while maintaining a responsive user experience. By Rafal Gancarz

Servers 103

Servers Tuning Scalability Performance 103

Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Suboptimal architecture design. Poorly designed cloud solutions can become costly over time. Are there rogue servers running in the environment where ITOps, CloudOps, or another team can’t assign or identify who’s financially responsible for it? They can send a notification saying, “This server is oversized.”

Best Practices 228

Best Practices Strategy Cloud AWS 228

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. Insert the ‘log-bin’ directive into your server’s configuration file (my.cnf or my.ini).

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

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.

Hardware 243

Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

Learn to boost system reliability through proactive issue detection. Dynatrace achieves Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation – Blog Dynatrace has achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

Google 258

Google Innovation Cloud Analytics 258

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Even SQL Server stores some flag-based data using bitwise representation. Setting the server configuration option “ user options” using bitwise representation. Prior to SQL Server 2022, T-SQL had minimal support for bit manipulation. Querying the current session’s state of session options with the @@OPTIONS function.

Servers 122

Servers C++ Code Cache 122

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

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. The extension runs remotely from your Dynatrace ActiveGates and connects to your IBM i system.

Monitoring 231

Monitoring Infrastructure Metrics Analytics 231

DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Poorly optimized queries can lead to slow response times and increased load on the database server, negatively impacting user experience and system performance. This process can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, especially if the query is complex or if the database design does not support efficient data retrieval.

Performance 161

Performance Database Strategy Efficiency 161

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

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?

AWS 278

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 278

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Bring logic to data with easy-to-build apps As a unified observability and security platform, Dynatrace is designed to be open and customizable from the ground up. With hundreds of teams, distributed systems, and terabytes of log data, this is a daunting task.

AWS 216

AWS Analytics Cloud Monitoring 216

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

Design 101

Design Media Testing Entertainment 101

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

This method involves providing the lowest level of access by default, deleting inactive accounts, and auditing server activity. Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage.

Open Source 194

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Internet Internet 194

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 92

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 92

SQL Shack

JUNE 25, 2021

In this article, we will focus on one major SQL Server performance issue that we may experience during heavy data insertion in a table. Introduction SQL Server allocates some memory from the operating system, and this is because it is designed to do all read and modification operations in memory instead of on disk.

Tuning 64

Tuning Servers Performance Operating System 64

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Answer-driven DevOps automation goes beyond creating tickets and extends to executing workflows designed to extract ownership information and then route the ticket to the responsible teams. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management. But it doesn’t stop there.

DevOps 217

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 217

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies. Because monolithic software systems employ one large codebase repository, the service becomes a massive piece of software that is labor-intensive to manage.

Architecture 196

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 196

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How the presentation layer deals with empty strings or NULLs shouldn’t be the driver for your table design and data model. Well, I’ve seen this in current systems where they use some arbitrary-sounding date in views to act as a magic filter, only presenting rows where the value can be trusted. I’m sorry, but that’s not a good reason.

Servers 103

Servers Design Speed Code 103

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Serverless architecture: A primer. The first benefit is simplicity.

Serverless 276

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 276

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.

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’ve built the ability to track all business SLOs [service-level objectives].” And with Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian , all teams across the organization can understand how their specific silo operates in relation to critical systems. These are all metrics Dynatrace collects directly out of the box.

Best Practices 231

Best Practices Metrics AWS Innovation 231

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. AI observability is the use of artificial intelligence to capture the performance and cost details generated by various systems in an IT environment. Additionally, organizations need to consider AI observability.

Strategy 219

Strategy Artificial Intelligence Storage Cloud 219

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. Instead of treating storage, server, compute, and network functions as separate entities, HCI virtualizes these resources.

Infrastructure 197

Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 197

Particular Software

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

SQL Server Transport is one of our most popular transports. Customers often have deep proficiency with SQL and are able to use SQL Transport to add message queues to new or even legacy systems without needing to adopt (or get approval for) additional technology. SQL Server Transport version 6.2.0 Summary Version 6.2.0

Transportation 52

Transportation Servers Database Systems 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. Dynatrace provides end-to-end observability of AI applications As AI systems grow in complexity, a holistic approach to the observability of AI-powered applications becomes even more crucial.

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This blog post will explore some of the major challenges in database management that businesses can expect, especially when transitioning from traditional database servers. Enhanced Security on Database Servers With DBaaS, security is a given, not an add-on. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Sort operator’s rewind behaviour may seem strange, but it has been this way from (at least) SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2019 inclusive (as well as Azure SQL Database). The post When Do SQL Server Sorts Rewind? I have not been able to find any official explanation or documentation about it. Demo 6: No In-Memory Sort.

Servers 106

Servers Cache Azure Performance 106

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67