Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

Monitoring 204

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type. One of the key advantages of DEM is its versatility.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020).

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In what seems almost a previous life by now Thorsten was one of the top young professors in Distributed Systems and I had the great pleasure of working with him at Cornell in the early 90''s. What set Thorsten aside from so many other system research academics was his desire to build practical, working systems, a path that I followed as well.

Network 99

Network Latency Operating System Speed 99

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed. If you are building resilient systems with failover, the control plane that manages failover is often the hardest part of the system to get right.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Virtualization has become a crucial element for companies and individuals looking to optimize their computing resources in today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. Mini PCs have become effective virtualization tools in this setting, providing a portable yet effective solution for a variety of applications.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Efficiency Hardware Games 161

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I am pretty sure some if not all of these papers deserved to be elected to the hall of fame of best papers in distributed systems. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Network Disconnections. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Virtual Memory. File System. File System. Networking. Networking. schedtool –B PID. Huge Pages.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

A video of the talk is on youtube : The slides are on slideshare : I love this talk as I get to share more about what the Performance and Operating Systems team at Netflix does, rather than just my work. Virtual Memory. File System. File System. Networking. Networking. schedtool –B PID. Huge Pages.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

Plus, there are multiple versions of operating systems and screen resolutions that our users browse content on. . Plus, it’s a cloud-based testing platform that supports testing on both real devices and virtual devices. with Safari at 8.87%. Picture Credit: Kinsta. According to Sweor , users take only 0.05 Highlights.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

To keep up with the testing demand there are a number of feature requirements needed in order to be called a modern performance testing platform: Mega-scale load testing — load testing should scale up to millions of users within seconds to emulate the speed and scale of virtually any high-profile event worldwide.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Those waits can be significant, even if you’re on a corporate network. Let’s get back to home networking.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. Network scanners. Harden the host operating system.

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

Analytics 245

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 245

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. The following table breaks down the various processing (including download) and uploading phases within an assembler and packager instance operating on large media files.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. 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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time . Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system . To provide actionable answers monitoring systems store, baseline, and analyze telemetry data. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

Analytics 135

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 135

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily.

Serverless 221

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 221

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. Who manages the networking aspects?

Virtualization 133

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 133

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. So the initial time to run this all depends on your network speed. Here is what it looked like on my system. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads. The Python GIL.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Type 2: Full Real-User Monitoring (RUM) If CrUX offers one flavor of real-user data, then we can consider “full real-user data” to be another flavor that provides even more in the way individual experiences, such as specific network requests made by the page. The accuracy of observed data depends on how the test environment is set up.

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In fact, once containerized, many of these services and the source code itself is virtually invisible in a standalone Kubernetes environment. Logs: A log file tells you about an event that has already happened; it is a record of events from software and operating systems. Automatic configuration of application network.

Monitoring 219

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 219

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Integration Testing – Integration and working of different systems together are tested using integration testing. Operating Systems- Windows, iOS, Android, etc. Security Testing.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Particular Software

JULY 18, 2017

I remember the first time I deployed a system into production. Once the system was deployed, I wanted to see if everything was working properly, so I ran through a simple checklist: Is my database up? (Yes/No) Yes/No) If the answers to these questions were all yes, then the system was working correctly.

Systems 56

Systems Monitoring Website Virtualization 56

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. with more being added continually.

Code 110

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 110