KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage. Dutch firm Ohpen has already moved to take advantage of the ruling by choosing AWS to host its core banking platform in an on-demand, software-as-a-service environment.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

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. E.g., in memcached there are five main internal stages, each of which has a hardware or software queue associated with it.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker?

Open Source 298

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

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 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs. PostgreSQL in the cloud CPU Considering AWS as your cloud platform of choice, the configuration made for your infrastructure will influence the performance of your application and monthly costs. vacuumdb is a utility for cleaning a PostgreSQL database.

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Limited toolset and features Another challenge that organizations may face when considering open source is the perception that community software versions have a limited set of features. Security and risk The question “ Is Open Source software safe? Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

From the software perspective, Linux players like RedHat, Ubuntu, and SUSE have already entered this market with fully supported enterprise versions of Linux for ARM. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

Java 132

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 132

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions. This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software.

Architecture 99

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 99

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

An easy, though imprecise, way of thinking about Netflix infrastructure is that everything that happens before you press Play on your remote control (e.g., Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Because of this flexibility, businesses may choose the infrastructure that best meets their needs.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 105

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. PostgreSQL software supports synchronous streaming replication, asynchronous streaming replication, and logical replication.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. They migrated their IT infrastructure, including mission-critical payments platforms, to AWS in just six weeks.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Source: FileFlex.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. 2) Hardware limitations Disk and memory are inexpensive nowadays. An example is running MongoDB on Mesos.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. In this type of network, workloads are distributed across hundreds or thousands of different machines.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

Availability 31

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 31

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. In this blog, we will answer all of these important questions and provide a general overview comparing the two database services, Aurora vs RDS.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. And certainly no need to pay for it.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. The repeated use of a write request followed by a flush request may be detrimental to performance and will increase traffic on the I/O bus. Starting with the Linux 4.18 4 Socket, TPCC.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Dynatrace, we follow a combination of agent and agent-less approach where the “secret sauce” lies in our Dynatrace OneAgent (watch my Performance Clinic YouTube tutorial with our Chief Software Architect Helmut Spiegl ). For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software. The seamless integration with the rest of the AWS infrastructure, especially CloudWatch, made real-time monitoring a cinch.â??. either way, itâ??s

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g. degraded hardware, transient networking problem) or, more often, because of some change deployed by Netflix engineers that did not have the intended effect. Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. Basic navigation and window management features to (e.g.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB is a custom-built backup utility designed to cater to the needs of users who don’t want to pay for proprietary software but require a fully supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-wide consistent backups in MongoDB. MongoDB backup methods include full, incremental, and continuous backups.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. SPICE is cloud-native, which means that customers don’t need to provision, manage, or scale infrastructure manually.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. But account for the different types and usage behaviors of your customers (which Tobias Baldauf called cadence and cohorts ), along with bot traffic and seasonality effects. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

For Mac OS, we can use Network Link Conditioner , for Windows Windows Traffic Shaper , for Linux netem , and for FreeBSD dummynet. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Lighthouse , a performance auditing tool integrated into DevTools.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145