Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Aligning workload types and sizes with instance performance and capacity requirements is essential to keep costs down. Wrong-sized resources.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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DZone

JANUARY 14, 2020

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. Rapid OneAgent rollouts on Google Kubernetes Engine. Dynatrace news. The OneAgent Helm chart is one-of-a-kind.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I am going to use the MaterializedMySQL engine for this purpose. MaterializedMySQL Engine – Overview Prerequisites for the Replication Replication setup Replication testing Understanding ReplacingMergeTree What happens if the Replication event fails? Schema conversion from MySQL to ClickHouse will be taken care of by the engine.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how you can migrate a comprehensive web application from MySQL to YugabyteDB using the open-source data migration engine YugabyteDB Voyager. Nowadays, many people migrate their applications from traditional, single-server relational databases to distributed database clusters.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization. For the most part, a site reliability engineer is focused on multiple tasks and projects at one time, so for most SREs, the various tools they use reflect their eve-evolving responsibilities. Programming Languages.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. Performance or security tests are seen as a part of ‘hardening’ or release-level sprints. This changes how teams test for quality.

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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. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully 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.

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SQL Shack

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this article, we will go through some details about SQL Server statistics. The first step into SQL Server statistics The query plan is a set of instructions that describes how a query will be executed by the database engine. The query plans are created by the query optimizer in SQL Server and it requires […].

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in its simplest terms is what practitioners use to ensure consistent availability, performance, and response times to applications. APM can also be referred to as: Application performance management. Performance monitoring. Dynatrace news. Application monitoring.

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SQL Shack

APRIL 16, 2021

In this article, we will learn how to interpret an execution plan of a SQL Server insert statement. Introduction When we execute an insert statement, the database engine performs tons of work in the background. Consequently, […].

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SQL Shack

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The SQL Server execution plan (query plan) is a set of instructions that describes which process steps are performed while a query is executed by the database engine. The query plans are generated by the query optimizer and its essential goal is to generate the most efficient (optimum) and economical query plan.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 127

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. Moreover, Pigasus wants to do all this on a single server! Can you really do all this on a single server?? OSDI’20. Please do join us if you can.

Servers 128

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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SQL Performance

JULY 19, 2022

An example of this is updating a fixed-width column in a single row—it will do the following: Perform the update, which generates one log record. You can read a bit more about rollbacks in my article A Complete Introduction to SQL Server Transactions on the SentryOne blog, and I’ll cover them in depth in the next article.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

If you work with SAP ABAP, you may have noticed that finding information about SAP application and transaction performance involves scaling a high barrier to entry. While powerful, SAP performance management tools like the SAP Solution Manager are also complex. Assess problem impact and focus on the pressing issues first.

Monitoring 150

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Dynatrace Application Performance Management (APM) has long provided multiple options for database monitoring, including deep insights into code and statements, service level visibility, connection pool monitoring, and more. Yet, most modern applications rely on proper database performance to provide users with a flawless user experience.

Database 237

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

XML external entity (XXE) exploit The aXMLRPC library allows its users to connect to a server and perform RPC calls using the XML-RPC protocol over HTTP. A possibility to make this exploit successful is a man-in-the-middle attack that intercepts the connection to a legitimate server.

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SQL Shack

JULY 28, 2020

In this article, we will learn how to test our storage subsystems performance using Diskspd. The storage subsystem is one of the key performance factors for SQL Server because SQL Server storage engine stores database objects, tables, and indexes on the physical files.

Storage 82

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Automate disk resizing operations with Davis AI predictive analytics The Dynatrace Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team was looking for a way to automatically adjust disk space for cloud volumes on a regular basis to avoid over- or under-provisioning them.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“Engineers today lack an easy way to track the tokens and prompt usage of their LLM applications in production. Resource consumption: Observing computational resource availability and saturation, whether deployed in cloud-native environments like Kubernetes or CPU-enabled servers. Maintained under the Apache 2.0

Open Source 249

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DZone

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. Site reliability engineering aims to keep servers and services running with zero downtime. For more: Read the Report. However, outages and incidents are inevitable, especially when dealing with a complex system that constantly gets new updates.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance.

Strategy 147

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Dotcom-Montior

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization, and as such, so do site reliability engineer tools. A typical SRE is busy automating, cleaning up code, upgrading servers, and continually monitoring dashboards for performance, etc.,

Engineering 52

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Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Application servers use connection pools to maintain connections with the databases that they communicate with. Connection pools are also a great way to improve performance. New extensions enable AI-powered monitoring of connection pool performance. Application server configurations. What’s next.

Traffic 137

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2022

This automatic analysis enables engineers to spend more time innovating and improving business operations. An IT organization is often unaware a critical server has gone down until a user reports it. The script then restarts the web service and checks the server’s health. An example of the self-healing web.

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