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At Logicify , we are proud to be software monitoring geeks. We love to monitor both the apps we develop and the ones we use internally. Not because they are sloppy. Not because we don’t trust our code. MORE
It will be easier to get support for infrastructure or services if several teams have the same needs. Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. MORE
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Cloud Infrastructure Breakdown by Database. Now, let’s take a look at the cloud infrastructure setup breakdown by database management systems. So, which cloud infrastructure is right for you? Average Number of Database Types Used by Infrastructure. MORE
Early infrastructure. Hardware infrastructure. This is a guest post by Hugues Alary , Lead Engineer at Betabrand , a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco. This article was originally published here. Rackspace. MORE
The post The Importance of Validating the Testing Infrastructure appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Performance Engineering Software Testing Performance Performance Testing test infrastructure MORE
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. MORE
In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing. As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. MORE
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., Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid. MORE
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure. MORE
With them having access to Dynatrace they could get an overview of our infrastructure as well as be alerted of issues as Dynatrace detects them. Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Dashboards are constantly updated with new capabilities. MORE
Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. MORE
Architecture Mobile bufferbloat Cronet HTTP/2 HTTP/3 Infrastructure Internet Engineering Task Force mobile engineering QUIC retransmission timeout Transmission Control Protocol Uber MobileUber operates on a global scale across more than 600 cities, with our apps relying entirely on wireless connectivity from over 4,500 mobile carriers. MORE
At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. MORE
Mapping micro-services interactions, entities from real time infrastructure, and ML infrastructure and other non traditional data stores are few such examples. MORE
All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it. We didn't have to build any of that heavy infrastructure. Wake up! It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. ( @jbesw ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? MORE
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today? MORE
Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. All Things Distributed. MORE
Often an application requires several infrastructure resources to be created and AWS CloudFormation helps customers create and manage these collections of AWS resources in a simple and predictable way. Wordpress is just one of the many ready-to-run Templates that are available and that demonstrate how easy it is to get infrastructure for your application up and running. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. MORE
They gather information infrastructure data such as CPU, memory and log files. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. Dynatrace news. Use the Artificial Intelligence”, it is not a Jedi Trick. Old School monitoring. MORE
DDoS or heavy load: In a similar vein to the previous point, increased load with no way of auto-scaling your application will lead to degraded performance where you begin to probe the limits of your infrastructure. MORE
How can you be a full-time IT Systems Engineer taking care of enterprise infrastructure while also being responsible for enterprise monitoring from an administrative and monitoring as a service perspective? Dynatrace news. MORE
We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. We doubled-down decided to use a single cloud provider for each of our environments and moved all our public cloud infrastructure to AWS. MORE
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? MORE
We’re looking for ML engineers to help us push the boundary of containers performance and “machine learning for systems” and systems engineers for our core infrastructure and compute platform. MORE
NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. NVMe Storage Use Cases. MORE
Dynatrace automatically discovers, maps, and monitors every component of the full-stack; from the application, then underlying infrastructure and the end-to-end customer experience. Dynatrace news. MORE
Dynatrace is a software intelligence platform that combines application performance management, cloud infrastructure monitoring, AIOps, and digital experience management for the enterprise cloud. Dynatrace news. MORE
We’re proud to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for monitoring of SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective. Vertical infrastructure dependencies characterize how SAP depends on virtual and physical infrastructure performance. MORE
Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment. Netflix Conductor is maintained by the Media Workflow Infrastructure team. MORE
Before we get into the tutorial hands-on, I would like to mention that this topic is not new. It has been covered in various helpful articles like the ones from TestAutomationGuru. MORE
Architecture Data Store Datastore Design Flask Frontless Go Golang Goroutine Infra Infrastructure Mezzanine NGINX Python Schemaless Sharding Uber Uber Engineering uWSGIIn 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone. MORE
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans. MORE
This article is written by Preetam Jinka , Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. This post describes the requirements that we have to work with, how we use TimescaleDB to store and retrieve time series data, and the tooling we’ve developed to manage our infrastructure. MORE
Architecture CoDel CPU critical request Goroutine graceful degradation Infrastructure Jaeger load management load shedding Memory overload detector QALM QoS Quality of Service ridesharing RPC layer Uber for Business Uber Freight UberFx YARPCMuch of Uber’s business involves connecting people with people, making the reliability of our customer platform crucial to our success. The customer platform supports everything from ridesharing and Uber Eats , to Uber Freight and Uber for Business. MORE
To build and maintain infrastructure at scale, easy access to the current state of the system is paramount. As Uber’s business continues to expand, our infrastructure has grown in size and complexity, making it more difficult to get all the … The post Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. MORE
Over the years, migrating data to the cloud has become a top priority for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure for improved security, performance, and agility, closely followed by the trending shift from commercial database management systems to open source databases. MORE
As the Vice President of Engineering for Uber’s Core Infrastructure group, Matthew Mengerink faces a daunting task. He oversees 350 engineers across four teams tasked with not only maintaining the platform on which 3,500 microservices run, but also figuring out … The post Scaling for Growth: A Q&A with Uber’s VP of Core Infrastructure, Matthew Mengerink appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. MORE
They wouldn’t have had to make any platform or infrastructure changes on their side. Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues. MORE
Three years ago, Uber Engineering adopted Hadoop as the storage ( HDFS ) and compute ( YARN ) infrastructure for our organization’s big data analysis. Architecture Apache Hadoop Big Data Big Data Analysis Garbage Collection Hadoop Hadoop Distributed File System Hadoop Infra & Analytics Team HBase HDFS HDFS Federation HIVE Hoodie Infrastructure JAR Jenkins NameNode PRC Puppet Router-based Federation Uber Uber Data Foundation Team Uber Engineering View File System WebHDFS YARN MORE
As part of our robust and scalable metrics infrastructure, we built … The post M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Open Source Grafana Infrastructure M3 M3 Coordinator M3DB Metrics Platform OSS Prometheus Uber Infrastructure MORE
Architecture Uber Data Cassandra Data Management Data Storage Data Warehouse Databook Dropwizard Gradle HDFS HIVE Infrastructure Kafka Metadata MySQL Postgres Quartz Queryparser RESTful API Uber Uber Data Knowledge Uber Engineering VerticaFrom driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data. MORE
It will include an update to Chrome 73, a revised access management policy for detailed reports and a technical architecture revamped to meet the growing needs of our … Continue reading Update to Chrome 73 and infrastructure upgrade → Service UpdatesAfter several months of intensive work (and a new coffee machine), we are pleased to announce the next update of our service: June 13th (03:00 AM UTC). MORE
Architecture Uber Data Big Data Data Engineering Data Infrastructure data science Data Warehouse Engineering EfficiencyMaintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. MORE
Architecture Culture Aarhus Aarhus University Denmark Grail Infrastructure Lau Skorstengaard Ph.D. Lau Skorstengaard is a Ph.D. student at Aarhus University who pursued a 2018 internship with Uber Engineering’s Aarhus, Denmark office. MORE
Infrastructure Related Topics DZone
JULY 26, 2019
Before we get into the tutorial hands-on, I would like to mention that this topic is not new. It has been covered in various helpful articles like the ones from TestAutomationGuru.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 25, 2019
Mapping micro-services interactions, entities from real time infrastructure, and ML infrastructure and other non traditional data stores are few such examples.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 5, 2019
Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.
Uber Engineering
MARCH 13, 2018
To build and maintain infrastructure at scale, easy access to the current state of the system is paramount. As Uber’s business continues to expand, our infrastructure has grown in size and complexity, making it more difficult to get all the … The post Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
Abstracta
APRIL 17, 2018
The post The Importance of Validating the Testing Infrastructure appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Performance Engineering Software Testing Performance Performance Testing test infrastructure
DZone
JULY 22, 2019
At Logicify , we are proud to be software monitoring geeks. We love to monitor both the apps we develop and the ones we use internally. Not because they are sloppy. Not because we don’t trust our code.
Dareboost
MAY 28, 2019
It will include an update to Chrome 73, a revised access management policy for detailed reports and a technical architecture revamped to meet the growing needs of our … Continue reading Update to Chrome 73 and infrastructure upgrade → Service UpdatesAfter several months of intensive work (and a new coffee machine), we are pleased to announce the next update of our service: June 13th (03:00 AM UTC).
Scalegrid
JUNE 6, 2019
Over the years, migrating data to the cloud has become a top priority for organizations looking to modernize their infrastructure for improved security, performance, and agility, closely followed by the trending shift from commercial database management systems to open source databases.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans.
High Scalability
APRIL 3, 2019
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?
High Scalability
APRIL 16, 2019
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II.
CSS Wizardry
MAY 31, 2019
One of the quickest wins—and one of the first things I recommend my clients do—to make websites faster can at first seem counter-intuitive: you should self-host all of your static assets, forgoing others’ CDNs/infrastructure.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 14, 2019
Architecture Uber Data Big Data Data Engineering Data Infrastructure data science Data Warehouse Engineering EfficiencyMaintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage.
Scalegrid
JUNE 11, 2019
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Cloud Infrastructure Breakdown by Database. Now, let’s take a look at the cloud infrastructure setup breakdown by database management systems. So, which cloud infrastructure is right for you? Average Number of Database Types Used by Infrastructure.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 7, 2018
As part of our robust and scalable metrics infrastructure, we built … The post M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. Architecture Open Source Grafana Infrastructure M3 M3 Coordinator M3DB Metrics Platform OSS Prometheus Uber Infrastructure
Uber Engineering
MAY 14, 2019
Architecture Mobile bufferbloat Cronet HTTP/2 HTTP/3 Infrastructure Internet Engineering Task Force mobile engineering QUIC retransmission timeout Transmission Control Protocol Uber MobileUber operates on a global scale across more than 600 cities, with our apps relying entirely on wireless connectivity from over 4,500 mobile carriers.
High Scalability
APRIL 8, 2019
Early infrastructure. Hardware infrastructure. This is a guest post by Hugues Alary , Lead Engineer at Betabrand , a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco. This article was originally published here. Rackspace.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 3, 2018
Architecture Uber Data Cassandra Data Management Data Storage Data Warehouse Databook Dropwizard Gradle HDFS HIVE Infrastructure Kafka Metadata MySQL Postgres Quartz Queryparser RESTful API Uber Uber Data Knowledge Uber Engineering VerticaFrom driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data.
Uber Engineering
APRIL 5, 2018
Three years ago, Uber Engineering adopted Hadoop as the storage ( HDFS ) and compute ( YARN ) infrastructure for our organization’s big data analysis. Architecture Apache Hadoop Big Data Big Data Analysis Garbage Collection Hadoop Hadoop Distributed File System Hadoop Infra & Analytics Team HBase HDFS HDFS Federation HIVE Hoodie Infrastructure JAR Jenkins NameNode PRC Puppet Router-based Federation Uber Uber Data Foundation Team Uber Engineering View File System WebHDFS YARN
Uber Engineering
JANUARY 16, 2019
Architecture Culture Aarhus Aarhus University Denmark Grail Infrastructure Lau Skorstengaard Ph.D. Lau Skorstengaard is a Ph.D. student at Aarhus University who pursued a 2018 internship with Uber Engineering’s Aarhus, Denmark office.
Uber Engineering
MARCH 22, 2018
Architecture CoDel CPU critical request Goroutine graceful degradation Infrastructure Jaeger load management load shedding Memory overload detector QALM QoS Quality of Service ridesharing RPC layer Uber for Business Uber Freight UberFx YARPCMuch of Uber’s business involves connecting people with people, making the reliability of our customer platform crucial to our success. The customer platform supports everything from ridesharing and Uber Eats , to Uber Freight and Uber for Business.
Uber Engineering
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Architecture Data Store Datastore Design Flask Frontless Go Golang Goroutine Infra Infrastructure Mezzanine NGINX Python Schemaless Sharding Uber Uber Engineering uWSGIIn 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS OpsWorks , a flexible application management solution with automation tools that enable you to model and control your applications and their supporting infrastructure. All Things Distributed.
High Scalability
AUGUST 27, 2018
We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. We doubled-down decided to use a single cloud provider for each of our environments and moved all our public cloud infrastructure to AWS.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 20, 2013
At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM.
High Scalability
DECEMBER 5, 2018
This article is written by Preetam Jinka , Senior Infrastructure Engineer at ShiftLeft. This post describes the requirements that we have to work with, how we use TimescaleDB to store and retrieve time series data, and the tooling we’ve developed to manage our infrastructure.
CSS Wizardry
AUGUST 7, 2019
DDoS or heavy load: In a similar vein to the previous point, increased load with no way of auto-scaling your application will lead to degraded performance where you begin to probe the limits of your infrastructure.
High Scalability
JUNE 27, 2019
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?
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., Our Infrastructure Security team leverages Python to help with IAM permission tuning using Repokid.
Dynatrace
MAY 31, 2019
We’re proud to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for monitoring of SAP ABAP performance from the infrastructure and ABAP application platform perspective. Vertical infrastructure dependencies characterize how SAP depends on virtual and physical infrastructure performance.
CSS Wizardry
AUGUST 13, 2019
They wouldn’t have had to make any platform or infrastructure changes on their side. Disclaimers: I was not approached or hired by Hoefler&Co or Cloud.typography to look into any of the following issues.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Often an application requires several infrastructure resources to be created and AWS CloudFormation helps customers create and manage these collections of AWS resources in a simple and predictable way. Wordpress is just one of the many ready-to-run Templates that are available and that demonstrate how easy it is to get infrastructure for your application up and running. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
Dynatrace
JULY 12, 2019
Dynatrace is a software intelligence platform that combines application performance management, cloud infrastructure monitoring, AIOps, and digital experience management for the enterprise cloud. Dynatrace news.
Dynatrace
MAY 20, 2019
Dynatrace automatically discovers, maps, and monitors every component of the full-stack; from the application, then underlying infrastructure and the end-to-end customer experience. Dynatrace news.
High Scalability
MARCH 8, 2019
All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it. We didn't have to build any of that heavy infrastructure. Wake up! It's HighScalability time: A highly simplified diagram of serverless. ( @jbesw ). Do you like this sort of Stuff?
José M. Pérez
JUNE 2, 2018
It will be easier to get support for infrastructure or services if several teams have the same needs. Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers.
The Netflix TechBlog
JULY 30, 2019
Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment. Netflix Conductor is maintained by the Media Workflow Infrastructure team.
DZone
JUNE 4, 2019
NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. NVMe Storage Use Cases.
Dynatrace
MAY 15, 2019
With them having access to Dynatrace they could get an overview of our infrastructure as well as be alerted of issues as Dynatrace detects them. Dynatrace news. Dynatrace Dashboards are constantly updated with new capabilities.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 12, 2019
How can you be a full-time IT Systems Engineer taking care of enterprise infrastructure while also being responsible for enterprise monitoring from an administrative and monitoring as a service perspective? Dynatrace news.
DZone
APRIL 26, 2019
In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing. As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially.
Dynatrace
JULY 22, 2019
They gather information infrastructure data such as CPU, memory and log files. It doesn’t apply to infrastructure metrics such as CPU or memory. Dynatrace news. Use the Artificial Intelligence”, it is not a Jedi Trick. Old School monitoring.
The Netflix TechBlog
JUNE 4, 2019
We’re looking for ML engineers to help us push the boundary of containers performance and “machine learning for systems” and systems engineers for our core infrastructure and compute platform.
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