Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Chaos engineers ask why. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. One example from the paper is an application using the ammo.js

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

There are high hopes for 5G , for example unlocking new applications in UHD streaming and VR, and machine-to-machine communication in IoT. The first 5G networks are now deployed and operational. The study is based on one of the world’s first commercial 5G network deployments (launched in April 2019), a 0.5

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

This is why our BYOC pricing is less than our Dedicated Hosting pricing, as the costs listed for BYOC are only what you pay for ScaleGrid and don’t include your hardware costs. Let’s walk through an example: Database: MySQL. Where to host your cloud database? Cloud Provider: AWS. Replication Type: Master-Slave-Slave. Security Groups.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For example, if you are buying the latest Amazon memory-optimized EC2 instance (R7iz), the AWS page ( [link] ) tells us the following: Up to 3.9 4.22 %usr 38.40

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware. They always have backups, and many servers to provide a reliable and stable environment to test. Let’s understand this with the help of an example – there is a video-streaming website that is available for laptops and computers only.

Cloud 96

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation. By instrumenting both the client-side of a request and the server-side it’s possible to figure out wait times.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”. These include data transfer (i.e.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Intelligent Social network - Facilitate topical Q&A conversations among employees, customers and our most valued super contributors. Teachers can interact with their colleagues in professional learning networks.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A load test is done by simulating the real time user load on the application under test, and this determines how the application responds when multiple users hit the server simultaneously and it reveals the application’s response time, CPU and memory usage, network and bandwidth usage. New hardware changes/upgrades.

Testing 51

Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, in a three-node cluster, one node can go down; in a cluster with five or more nodes, two nodes can go down. The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization.

Availability 247

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 247

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

VM Import allows our customers to move virtual machine images from their datacenters to the Cloud and Amazon Direct Connect makes the network latencies and bandwidth between on-premises and AWS more predictable. Here are three example use cases that we envision for the AWS Storage Gateway. s highly reliable storage environment.

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. For example, you can use load testing tools to see how your application performs with a certain number of simultaneous users. An interruption in data flow due to limited capacity is called a bottleneck.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Whatever internal tools you are using to drive your business, for example, Atlassian Jira or Confluence, SAP Concur, Salesforce, Workday, MS Office 365 and every internal web application—these tools are crucial for your success. ActiveGate OS: Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS, RHEL server 7, CentOS server 7.

Network 157

Network Monitoring Servers Hardware 157

VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

We recently received a question from a customer who was looking for a quick way to repurpose some VoltDB production servers to create a disaster recovery site. Say you have five VoltDB servers in production, with k-factor=2, and no disaster site. You want to shift some of these servers to create a disaster recovery site.

Hardware 40

Hardware Database Servers Tuning 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices.

Open Source 302

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 302

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Streaming services, for example, run mission-critical systems in which excessive downtime could result in significant financial and reputational losses for the business. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 78

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Systems, web applications, servers, devices, etc., Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. For example, if the incident is related to an outage, that would automatically fall into high priority. are all prone to performance issues and unexpected outages at some point. Asset Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware.

Serverless 218

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 218

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

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. The network devices that underlie a large portion of the CDN are mostly managed by Python applications. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Architectural Design.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Examples of traditional natural monopolies are dams, railroads, power plants, water supply, and sewer services. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. For example, AWS created Nitro. So, the cloud is not a monopoly.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead.

Cache 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

This piece will cover some of my experiences in doing this, as well as my current thoughts on optimizing websites for carbon emissions , and some practical examples of things you can do to improve your own pages. But first, a confession: When I first heard about the environmental impact of websites, I didn’t quite believe it.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Daniel shared a few examples in his deck , but I couldn’t wait to take Daniel’s tool and fire it up on a bunch of random browsers and devices that I have sitting around. It’s a device actively being sold by a few prepaid networks. Another interesting note was how significant the impact of hardware has on the timing.

Latency 41

Latency Google Hardware Servers 41

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. For example: Lack of end-to-end observability. What is log analytics?

Analytics 209

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 209