Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Ultimately, IT automation can deliver consistency, efficiency, and better business outcomes for modern enterprises. Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. IT automation tools can achieve enterprise-wide efficiency. Read eBook now!

Artificial Intelligence 178

Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 178

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. . Check them out.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Application security has historically been addressed after development is completed.

DevOps 257

DevOps Best Practices Open Source Tuning 257

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. . Check them out.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With the help of log monitoring software, teams can collect information and trigger alerts if something happens that affects system performance and health. Log monitoring and analytics work in conjunction to ensure an application is performing as it should be, and to determine how a system could be improved. Accelerated innovation.

Analytics 198

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 198

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Putting logs into context with metrics, traces, and the broader application topology enables and improves how companies manage their cloud architectures, platforms and infrastructure, optimizing applications and remediate incidents in a highly efficient way. Manual troubleshooting is painful, hurts the business, and slows down innovation.

Cloud 254

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 254

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient.

Engineering 214

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 214

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Allowing architectures to be nimble and evolve over time, allowing organizations to take advantage of innovations as a standard practice. Stay tuned. AWS 5-pillars. Well-Architected Framework design principles include: Using data to inform architectur al choices and improvements over time. Dynatrace and AWS.

AWS 141

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 141

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Containers are the key technical enablers for tremendously accelerated deployment and innovation cycles. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. But first, some background. Why containers? Watch webinar now!

Open Source 290

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

General PostgreSQL use cases In addition to being used as a backend database management system, here are other general uses of PostgreSQL software: Website applications: Because PostgreSQL can handle high volumes of data and concurrent users efficiently, it’s suitable for applications that require scalability and performance.

Open Source 77

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 77

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In this article, I take a deeper look into continuous delivery (CD), and describe how this phase of the process is the key to achieving greater efficiency in your software development life cycle. This rapid feedback enables developers to stay focused on innovation instead of managing infrastructure. Feedback comes in faster.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices DevOps Open Source Cloud 130

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Free of vendor lock-in Vendor lock-in refers to the loss of freedom to scale, innovate, or switch to alternatives due to dependencies on a specific database vendor. Are you looking to enhance performance, improve scalability, cut expenses, or gain access to specific features you don’t currently have?

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Dynatrace is the leading Software Intelligence Platform, focused on web-scale cloud monitoring, delivering the richest, most complete data sets in the Application Performance Management market.

Government 215

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 215

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

On-demand performance feedback builds on that by allowing you to make performance part of your delivery pipeline. This means shifting your tests left so that you can detect performance regressions and other issues straight away, making them easier and cheaper to resolve. Where to next?

Cloud 131

Cloud DevOps Strategy Monitoring 131

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The resulting performance depends on the quality of the model predictions, a higher quality model leads to fewer collisions, and fewer out-of-order items to be patched in the final Insertion Sort pass. If it’s high performance you’re after, you can’t ignore mechanical sympathy. Sympathy for the machine.

Cache 137

Cache C++ Java Tuning 137

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

A producer does this with a combination of efficiency (squeeze every penny from raw materials sourcing to distribution) and by appealing to or outright fueling user vanity (engender customer identity in every facet of its business). Operations and execution matter to the bottom line, but ultimately dance to the tune called by finance.

Software 40

Software Software Innovation Hardware 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. 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. At least once? At most once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

From our testing on promotional assets , we know which of these assets have performed well and which ones haven’t. The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.) Each algorithm needed a process of evaluation and tuning to get great results in AVA Discovery View.

Media 169

Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 169

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. This article explains how we designed microservices and workflows on top of the Cosmos platform to bolster such video quality innovations.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Edge Perspectives

AUGUST 5, 2019

In our research on the Big Shift that is transforming the global economy, we’ve come to believe that all our institutions will need to make a fundamental shift from a scalable efficiency model to a scalable learning model. In this model, the primary focus is how to perform complex tasks very efficiently and reliably at scale.

Strategy 17

Strategy Scalability Efficiency Programming 17

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Who performs what roles? It's a big team, we have Product managers, UX team, DevOps, scrum teams, architects, engineers performing various roles.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud. Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid. We are proud to say that our team’s tools are built primarily in Python.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

Finally, re-training is performed every x-many minutes/hours/days to keep the models updated with new data. The algorithm state contains all the variables, statistics, and data structures needed to perform updates, that is, all that is required to continue training. Post-training model tuning and rich states.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Amazon Redshift enables customers to obtain dramatically increased query performance when analyzing datasets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more, using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. This means that Redshift performs much less wasted IO than a row-based database because it doesnâ??

Cloud 164

Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 164

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. We can’t tally and tabulate all the responses, but it’s clear that there’s no shortage of creativity and innovation.

Open Source 112

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. ​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2019

To unlock these innovations we are making a strategic choice that our focus should be geared towards developing the surrounding infrastructure so that scientists’ work can be easily absorbed into the wider Netflix Experimentation Platform. B) Efficient use of memory We should optimize for sparse linear algebra.

Design 174

Design Engineering Innovation Java 174