DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Much like how an electrical circuit breaker prevents an overload by stopping the flow of electricity when excessive current is detected, the Circuit Breaker pattern in software engineering stops the flow of requests to a service when the number of failures exceeds a predefined threshold.

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Architecture Software Engineering Traffic Engineering 258

DZone

JULY 18, 2023

It makes sense for DevOps engineers and architects to perform canary deployments in their CI/CD workflows. In canary deployments, the new version, called canary, is tested with limited live traffic at first. They cannot skip testing a release for the sake of adhering to continuous delivery practices, can they?

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Virtualization Traffic DevOps Engineering 230

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. Following best practice usually means a better website, more organic traffic, and happier visitors. Frederick O’Brien.

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Engineering Google Website Analytics 130

DZone

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In this article, we will look at two types of load balancers: one used to expose Kubernetes services to the external world and another used by engineers to balance network traffic loads to those services. “Kubernetes load balancer” is a pretty broad term that refers to multiple things.

Best Practices 227

Best Practices Traffic Network Engineering 227

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Without the ability to see the logs that are relevant to your service, infrastructure, or cloud function—at exactly the right time and in exactly the right format—your cloud or DevOps engineers lose the ability to find the root causes of the issues they troubleshoot. In some deployment scenarios, you might skip CloudWatch altogether.

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TechBeacon Testing

JULY 20, 2020

This year's Amazon Prime Day may be delayed (reportedly until August or September), but when it does arrive, it is certain to bring with it the usual flood of web traffic from hungry shoppers looking for killer deals.

Traffic 76

Traffic Performance Testing Engineering Testing 76

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. What characterizes a weak SLO? Use the default transformation.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 221

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. 1: Migration of traffic from fixed-ladder encodes to DO encodes. Join us and be a part of the amazing team that brought you this tech-blog; open positions: Software Engineer, Cloud Gaming Software Engineer, Live Streaming References [1] L. Krasula, A.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) has recently become a critical discipline in recent years as the world has shifted in favor of web-based interactions. This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. Mobile retail e-commerce spending in the U.

Best Practices 219

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 219

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.' An app is built with some expectations and is supposed to provide firm results.

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Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 220

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. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

Strategy 141

Strategy Latency Availability Traffic 141

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators ( Hacker News). History of Lisp ( Hacker News).

Java 244

Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Clair, principal security solutions engineer, discussed how organizations can take a more proactive approach to threat detection and incident resolution. This revision of assumptions might happen multiple times, causing engineers to lose track of previous hypotheses, patterns, and evidence. During their breakout session, Byrne and St.

Analytics 179

Analytics Engineering Cloud Traffic 179

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

With the release of Dynatrace version 1.249, the Davis® AI Causation Engine provides broader support to subsequent Kubernetes issues and their impact on business continuity like: Automated Kubernetes root cause analysis. Such context is easy to understand using the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Incidents are harder to solve.

Storage 296

Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 296

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. What is VPC Flow Logs.

AWS 214

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 214

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

Experienced engineering teams would tell you that production environments are not uniform and full of exciting deviations. The fun fact is – testing in production helps you test the code changes on live user traffic, catch the bugs early, and deliver a robust solution that increases customer satisfaction.

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Testing Traffic Engineering Code 109

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

An app to create alerts that could be sent to their engineers. An app for helping diagnose bot traffic. An app for tracking the custom user behavior of their customers. An app with a highly customizable dashboard for a call center.

Development 175

Development Performance Airlines Healthcare 175

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Because of Dynatrace’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) capability, and insights from our AI engine, Davis, they were able to quickly prioritize and fix the issues to ensure their employees had an optimal remote work experience. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

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Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 198

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Without these integrations, projects would be stuck at the prototyping stage, or they would have to be maintained as outliers outside the systems maintained by our engineering teams, incurring unsustainable operational overhead. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

Systems 226

Systems Media Cache Open Source 226

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

OneAgent takes care of auto-instrumentation and creation of the Smartscape model, which enables the Davis AI causation engine. With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross-data-center traffic.

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Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 164

DZone

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A good SRE engineer will tell you your service is never down. A great SRE engineer will tell you that’s not what you should be measuring. In fact, they’ll tell you their job is customer service.

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Engineering Scalability Systems Traffic 245

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. With tools like ApplicationVantage, network engineers discovered application inefficiencies and advised on corrective actions. Technology developments come in waves.

Network 165

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 165

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns.

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns. For example, you can detect traffic from outside your network going to a server that normally receives traffic from internal servers.

Traffic 162

Traffic Java Network DevOps 162

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. The ALR mechanism also ensures maximum stability when the actual load exceeds the capacity of the cluster (though a statistically valid set of requests is still captured for analysis by the Dynatrace Davis AI causation engine ). Impact on disk space.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 152

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Speed Curve

APRIL 22, 2024

In fact, it's something that started in the early days of web performance when Lara Hogan , who was an engineering manager at Etsy at the time, discussed the practice of empowering people across the organization by celebrating 'performance heroes'. Celebrating performance wins is critical to a healthy, well-supported, high-performing team.

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Performance Website Traffic Speed 60

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

OneAgent technology simplifies deployment across large enterprises and relieves engineers of the burden of instrumenting their applications by hand. One parameter toggles for different capabilities like Kubernetes API monitoring or OneAgent traffic routing. Dynatrace news. One key Dynatrace advantage is ease of activation.

Cloud 221

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 221

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Efficient environment configuration at scale One of software engineers’ most significant challenges is managing the numerous tools and technologies required for the software product lifecycle. Development teams must set up tailored configurations for each tool and component they’re responsible for.

Best Practices 186

Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 186

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A traffic spike can be another root cause (for example, if a new marketing promotion drives lots of new customer traffic to your site). Davis baselines your traffic levels mainly to identify traffic drops, however it can also be set to create events when traffic is higher than expected.

Traffic 137

Traffic Performance Database Metrics 137

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

I posed these questions to a couple of friends and colleagues who are responsible for monitoring critical infrastructure and services and my friend Thomas and my colleagues from the Dynatrace Engineering Productivity shared the following stories and screenshots with me. Example #1 Order System: No change in user or buyers’ behavior.

DevOps 172

DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering 172

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications.

Java 185

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 185

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Search engine optimization is undoubtedly one of the best digital marketing approaches. With a carefully crafted SEO strategy, you can rank your website at the top of the search engine results for relevant keywords. Do you know that 63% of online experiences start with search engines? Of all traffic, 53.3% of all clicks.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2023

So how do development and operations (DevOps) teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) distinguish among good, great, and suboptimal SLOs? Monitors signals The first attribute of a good SLO is the ability to monitor the four “golden signals”: latency, traffic, error rates, and resource saturation.

DevOps 211

DevOps Latency Metrics Traffic 211

DZone

JUNE 1, 2020

75% of all site traffic at present mainly runs through search engine-Google. Statistics Overview. Some stats that prove that UI should not be taken lightly ever: By 2020, there will be around 6.1 billion Smartphone users. 90% of audiences stopped using applications because of poor performance. 55% of businesses conduct UX testing.

Testing Tools 159

Testing Tools Open Source Mobile Internet 159

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With this announcement, Dynatrace brings the value of its AI engine, the scale, security, and automation of Dynatrace OneAgent and the scale of our platform (which can handle 50,000 hosts) to open source technologies so that you get the best of both worlds. Dynatrace unlocks over 200 new technology integrations. Stay tuned.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 253