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What Is Load Testing? Ensuring Robust System Performance Under Pressure

DZone

While load testing may sound like an esoteric domain exclusive to software engineers or network administrators, it is, in fact, a silent superhero in our increasingly digital world. It's the silent force keeping the digital infrastructure wheel rotating smoothly, even during peak usage times.

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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. availability.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. System Components. Streaming Data Model.

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

The Android launch leveraged the open-source software decoder dav1d built by the VideoLAN, VLC, and FFmpeg communities and sponsored by AOMedia. We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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AWS observability: AWS monitoring best practices for resiliency

Dynatrace

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. AWS Lambda makes it easy to design, run, and maintain application systems without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.