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Load Testing Essentials for High-Traffic Applications

DZone

To that end, monitoring performance and load testing has become an integral part of app development and deployment: it mimics real application performance under stress, and with this kind of testing, teams can make sure their apps are ready to scale up in times of demand and avoid bottlenecks before users get hurt by them.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Dapr and Service Meshes: Better Together

DZone

By providing a dedicated service layer to facilitate service discovery and how applications share information with each other, they provide security, tracing, monitoring, and traffic control. A service mesh is a pattern that aims to mitigate some of these challenges when architecting an application on Kubernetes.

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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Ensure high quality network traffic by tracking DNS requests out-of-the-box. What’s next.

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Better dashboarding with Dynatrace Davis AI: Instant meaningful insights

Dynatrace

For example, if you’re monitoring network traffic and the average over the past 7 days is 500 Mbps, the threshold will adapt to this baseline. An anomaly will be identified if traffic suddenly drops below 200 Mbps or above 800 Mbps, helping you identify unusual spikes or drops.

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