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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Users who rely on the websites for their fundamental needs or entertainment will not tolerate even a few seconds delay. Hardware resources. Monitoring of the network for the applications using the network, traffic, and bandwidth allocations can improve the network latency. Hardware Resources. Connection time. Wi-Fi usage.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music. A lot of people got it and learned to love SMF.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires. In some cases, like the homepage, this even involves providing appropriate imagery (e.g., the background image shown above).

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year.

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