The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This ground-breaking method enables users to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, increasing flexibility, lowering hardware costs, and improving efficiency. Mini PCs have become effective virtualization tools in this setting, providing a portable yet effective solution for a variety of applications.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Efficiency Hardware Games 161

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age.

Mobile 103

Mobile Design Internet Internet 103

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations.

Analytics 184

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 184

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. It also keeps track of JavaScript errors, browser metadata, console logs, stack traces, network requests and much more.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This includes latency, which is a major determinant in evaluating the reliability and performance of your Redis® instance, CPU usage to assess how much time it spends on tasks, operations such as reading/writing data from disk or network I/O, and memory utilization (also known as memory metrics).

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime.

Database 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware.

Serverless 216

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 216

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Together, they provide continuous value to the business. Accelerated innovation.

Analytics 205

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 205

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. The “scheduler” determines the placement of new containers so compute resources are used most efficiently. Networking.

Open Source 298

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Do you have a database?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. The importance of the network.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

Thinking back on how SDLC started and what it is today, the only reasons for its success can be accounted to efficiency, speed and most importantly automation – DevOps and cloud-based solutions can be considered major contributors here (after all DevOps is 41% less time-consuming than traditional ops ). . Source: Twitter. Sign up Now.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firekube exists because none of the existing alternatives (virtualisation, containers or language-specific vms) met the combined needs of multi-tenant efficiency and strong isolation in the AWS environment. for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces).

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For simplicity, we do not include networking or transaction management middleware in this discussion because although important in the real world they do not affect the key concepts. However, having the application logic in the client is even worse because you are sacrificing key database efficiencies of prepared statements.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

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

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

During this testing, performance parameters like response time, scalability, stability and efficiency of resource usage etc. Security Testing- Security of the application from the point of view of the network, data, system and the application is tested. How efficiently a user is able to use the system?

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Although modern iOS hardware is powerful enough to handle many intensive and complex tasks, the device could still feel unresponsive if you are not careful about how your app performs. Avoid doing complex calculation, networking, and heavy IO operation (e.g. iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant.

Performance 75

Performance Energy Operating System Code 75

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Government agencies aim to meet their citizens’ needs as efficiently and effectively as possible to ensure maximum impact from every tax dollar invested. In contrast, observability enables teams to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, including logs, metrics, and traces.

Infrastructure 205

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 205

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

A message-oriented implementation requires an efficient messaging backbone that facilitates the exchange of data in a reliable and secure way with the lowest latency possible. When we work on a single machine, the operating system takes care of managing the resources allocated to applications.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. aspx ) and ​​ Sparse Files ​​ ( [link] f ault.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Version7 (Future): Move all compute to the public cloud, carve out more services for impact isolation, dynamic resource pooling to manage pets and cattle efficiently.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52