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. The list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

Queueing theory is the mathematical study of waiting lines, both real and virtual. Our everyday lives are filled with events – from sitting in traffic to standing in line at the grocery store – that challenge our need for flow. Let's start with a wide-angle look at how we humans handle waiting, in all its forms.

Speed 133

Speed Website Mobile Cloud 133

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Traffic 173

Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

Latency 175

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 175

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. With agent monitoring, third-party software collects data and reports from the component that’s attached to the agent. Virtual machine (VM) monitoring.

Cloud 221

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 221

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 214

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 214

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report found that 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. 54% reported deploying updates every two hours or less.

DevOps 218

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 218

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). While the ultimate goal is still to save money, it’s human FTE hours as opposed to hardware and software costs. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships. A Viking shepherd superhero.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). While the ultimate goal is still to save money, it’s human FTE hours as opposed to hardware and software costs. Vikings fight zombies. With transformer Viking ships. A Viking shepherd superhero.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Speedier access to stored information within distributed storage is achieved by leveraging software-defined storage solutions and strategies like sharding or distributing sections of large databases and improving scalability by dividing tasks among many servers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 82

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

High Scalability

AUGUST 8, 2018

The game was a runaway hit and more popular than anyone expected—that summer you’d regularly see players gathering to duel around landmarks that were Pokémon Gyms in the virtual world. Prior to launch, they load-tested their software stack to process up to 5x their most optimistic traffic estimates.

Google 130

Google Games Entertainment Cloud 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines.  The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Think of it like an artist painting a mural.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This is where a well-architected Content Delivery Network (CDN) shines. The goal is to boost the pitfalls of network disruptions and vendor dependencies, all while pocketing cost savings. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. However, what sets HLS apart is its adaptability.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Watch Now : Using Open Source Software to Secure Your MongoDB Database MongoDB Security Features and Best Practices Authentication in MongoDB Most breaches involving MongoDB occur because of a deadly combination of authentication disabled and MongoDB opened to the internet. What does MongoDB offer to mitigate security threats?

Best Practices 41

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

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. Even though the network design for each data center is massively redundant, interruptions can still occur. " Silo your traffic or not – you choose. Regional isolation.

AWS 132

AWS Latency Lambda Architecture 132

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. The importance of the network. Build evolvable systems. Automation is key.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. One noteworthy feature is the Network Elements Filter.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data at the entire machine or raw cloud instance level needs to be apportioned to virtual machines or cloud instances which run an operating system, and to pods, containers and processes running applications and background activities that consume CPU, memory and I/O resources.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

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. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. A setting of 100 determines it to swap aggressively to disk.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

From game development to machine learning projects to neural networks to automation testing- everything is on the cloud. Obviously, the application will see a huge spike in traffic and testers would have already made the application scale-proof. Geo-location testing is an essential module in the software development lifecycle.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Testing Tools 52

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. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Dynatrace, we follow a combination of agent and agent-less approach where the “secret sauce” lies in our Dynatrace OneAgent (watch my Performance Clinic YouTube tutorial with our Chief Software Architect Helmut Spiegl ). Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started This dynamic is particularly transformative for organizational behavior.In

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Rigor

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Can you test with 3G, 4G, or different networking connections? One of the key strengths of synthetic monitoring solutions is that they can help you assess the performance and user experience (UX) of a site without requiring large volumes of real users driving traffic, a known weakness RUM or APM solutions. Can you specify the location?

Monitoring 59

Monitoring Benchmarking Mobile Traffic 59

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Infrastructure code, like any software code, can be reviewed, discussed, and modified collaboratively.‍A Terraform's declarative nature makes this adaptation straightforward.‍Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider. One of the primary reasons is the shared workflow.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. There are workarounds: I can use the perf_events cgroup ID, provided the container software is configuring it (they do). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In software development, the word “migration,” when we need to upgrade or change technology in a project, usually falls under the latter case, unfortunately. Microservices architecture is a set of independent services that are all connected into a network. From now on, we’re directing HTTP traffic to our React subfolder.

Architecture 74

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 74

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Reduced network and device capacity correlate with other access challenges. No other aspect of modern software is as poorly managed in otherwise functional engineering organisations. Folks with powerful laptops, new iPhones, and low-latency networks are noticing, which is a very bad sign. sales, marketing, etc.)?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145