Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

DevOps automation example #3: Progressive delivery In software development and delivery, if an organization uses feature flags to control feature releases, the marriage of observability data and answer-driven automation becomes a formidable force. Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management.

DevOps 219

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 219

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. OSDI’20.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. Another customer is from a multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency. Saturation.

Automotive 269

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 269

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 202

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.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. Let’s click “Apache Web Server apache” now. Hence it could detect, instrument, and monitor them.

Metrics 171

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 171

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. What is cloud migration? Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free. This can further reduce the amount of data that needs to be transmitted between server and client over the network. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 108

Storage Network Open Source Latency 108

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands.

Efficiency 102

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 102

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

What Comprises Video Streaming - Traffic CharacteristicsWith the emphasis on a high-quality streaming experience, the optimization starts from the very core. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Let’s analyze how you can achieve this win-win as effectively as possible!‍What

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. This includes zero-day vulnerabilities and software weaknesses that are not yet known and can be exploited without warning. What is the workload in a server?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Early web applications involved less on client-side behavior and more server-side for all its navigation, query handling, and updates. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Connection closed by the server.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This includes: Enterprises such as Decysion, Docebo, Eataly, Edizioni Conde Nast, ENEL, Ferrero, GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, Imperia & Monferrina, Lamborghini, Mediaset, Navionics, Pirelli, Pixartprinting, SEAT Pagine Gialle, Tagetik Software, and Vodafone Italy. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. million unique visits.

AWS 167

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. The POC Why this POC? Why ProxySQL?

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Dotcom-Monitor, we are all about monitoring solutions for tracking uptime, availability, functionality, and all-around performance of servers, websites, services, and applications. As defined by the Google SRE initiative, the four golden signals of monitoring include the following metrics: Latency. Monitoring. Release Engineering.

Monitoring 91

Monitoring Google DevOps Engineering 91

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Do you have a database? Three-Tier.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. percent availability in the event of a server, a rack of servers, or an Availability Zone failure.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them. Zones impact how we build, deploy, and operate software, as well as how we enforce security controls between our largest systems. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose.

AWS 132

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph. in total.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. The post The Need for Real-Time Device Tracking appeared first on ScaleOut Software. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. This scaling takes away the worry from random and unexpected traffic spikes or big seasonal traffic. The third stand-out issue was “no server maintenance.”

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. the amount of data from the server to the client to achieve the same result. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage in favour of stored procedures and on MariaDB a 1.3X

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Two failure modes we focus on are a service becoming slower (increase in response latency) or a service failing outright (returning errors). Monocle grabs data from the Atlas telemetry system, the tracing system, and by querying runtime servers for configuration information such as time values. Defining and running experiments.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. As applications have moved from local data centers to the public cloud, the role of DNS has expanded to the current role of a sophisticated director, controlling global and site load balancing, traffic steering, and providing intelligent response to user requests.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

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. Consistency. SimpleDBâ??s

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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. It started by providing server-side encryption in S3 for compliance use cases.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. This does not apply to read (SELECT) traffic.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

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