Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

DevOps tools , security response systems , search technologies, and more have all benefited from AI technology’s progress. More transparency means a better understanding of the technology being used, better troubleshooting, and more opportunities to fine-tune an organization’s tools.

Artificial Intelligence 206

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 206

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But what if you want to monitor internal applications that aren’t available publicly but are only accessible within your corporate network? You can deploy private Synthetic locations at various points within your company network and then execute monitors from them. Try it out for yourself. What’s next.

Monitoring 184

Monitoring Tuning Network Operating System 184

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

There is a wide selection of advanced solutions available for cloud monitoring, including various choices for ensuring top-notch security in your organization’s systems. Endpoint security plays a crucial role alongside other techniques such as network security tools for comprehensive cloud monitoring.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. it signifies memory fragmentation. <code>127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The science has spawned specialized chaos engineers who dedicate themselves to disrupting cloud software and the on-prem systems they interact with to make them resilient. Because it can touch many systems, chaos engineering can have broad implications, affecting groups and stakeholders across the organization. Blast radius.

Engineering 218

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We were very pleased to see that AV1 streaming improved members’ viewing experience, particularly under challenging network conditions. The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Stay tuned! Another exciting direction we are exploring is AV1 with HDR.

Media 246

Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. For most enterprises, using a RASP solution would mean running multiple agents on their production systems, potentially creating risk due to incompatibilities.

Traffic 228

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 228

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

Erica Sinclair is helping us get LSH probabilities right Dimensionality reduction uses linear algebra or artificial neural networks to place semantically similar words, sentences, and log lines near to each other in a new vector space, using representations known as embeddings. 0.3, -0.5, -0.7, and “problem authenticating” might be [0.1,

Development 177

Development Open Source Tuning Network 177

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. 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).

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 196

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues.

Database 93

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 93

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Like most IT professionals, Harikrishnan and the Parker team’s cybersecurity engineer Tom Hood have multiple requirements to manage, from implementing digital transformation and ensuring operational efficiency to securing IT systems. Unplanned system outages are costly, in both time and resources. Where is a user coming from?

Benchmarking 166

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 166

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Operating Systems are not always set up in the same way. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Storage and network transfer of files is a measurable cost. Recent improvements in OneAgent runtime-data handling. See details below.

Storage 145

Storage Latency Operating System Network 145

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. Kubernetes limitations In Linux, by default, performance system events can’t be collected by unprivileged users.

Code 109

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 109

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the case of Unix systems, the dominant solution on the market today that is independent of local package managers (such as dpkg, RPM, and others) is Ansible. At the time of this publication it may not be available there yet, but please stay tuned. You can read more in our Help page on Group Policy deployment.

Tuning 130

Tuning Monitoring Availability Architecture 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

We want your experience to be brilliant even if you aren’t listening with a state-of-the-art home theater system. This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Adaptive streaming is a technology designed to deliver media to the user in the most optimal way for their network connection.

Engineering 274

Engineering Network Media Entertainment 274

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2019

Having the ability to monitor the performance and availability of your organization’s internal applications—in addition to your organization’s customer-facing applications—from within your corporate network is an important benefit of synthetic monitoring. Browser monitors can now be executed from Windows-based ActiveGates.

Monitoring 103

Monitoring Hardware Tuning Mobile 103

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

This capability is essential when performance tuning since query events include discrete CPU and IO metrics as well as runtime parameters, which are key for troubleshooting query performance problems such as parameter sniffing. Network hit from the ADS Profiler extension (4-minute range). For some reason this thing will not go away!

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

DevOps 192

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 192

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. You want to avoid the chaos of “shadow IT,” where stuff gets done outside your approved systems, and ensure that your security game is tight. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Network Interface. Azure Automation accounts allow you to simplify cloud operations by automating the creation and deployment as well as the maintenance of resources in the Azure Cloud and across external systems. We’ll release additional monitoring support for new services soon, so stay tuned for further updates.

Azure 151

Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 151

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

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

MySQL previously released software quarterly as part of a continuous delivery system where new features were made available. The sync_relay_log_info, binlog_format, and group_replication_recovery_complete_at system variables are deprecated and will be removed. This could be handy for tracking query tuning and performance auditing.

Servers 82

Servers Open Source Tuning Cache 82

The Morning Paper

MARCH 12, 2020

CloudCanary on the other hand is about detecting correlations you do have, but probably don’t want: it looks for potential causes of correlated failures across a system, and can make targeted recommendations for improving your system reliability. Improving system reliability through correlation. "If

Network 109

Network Azure Engineering Tuning 109

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Without having network visibility, it’s not possible to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. 43416 5001 52.213.180.42

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

Of course, we could define a static threshold for each disk within the IT system. This release extends auto-adaptive baselines to the following generic metric sources, all in the context of Dynatrace Smartscape topology: Built-in OneAgent infrastructure monitoring metrics (host, process, network, etc.).

Metrics 204

Metrics Innovation Strategy Monitoring 204

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. In this blog post, we will give an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and share some of the learnings we gained along the way.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. For some of the tests on the ScaleGrid deployment, MySQL configuration binlog_group_commit_sync_delay is tuned so that the slave replication lag does not go beyond 30s. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. Amazon RDS.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Then came the coup de grace — the aforementioned stack-invasive SSPL.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Post by Brendan Gregg and Rikki Endsley.

DevOps 43

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Stay tuned for lots of articles on metaprogramming, applications, useful Raku modules, programming techniques, guides on how to work with Raku inside containers, and even how to migrate from good ol’ Perl. Tune in each day for an article that explores the wide range of topics in system administration. SysAdvent on Twitter.

Design 107

Design Development Programming Website 107

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. variable this->name $name.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. We both have had long careers supporting system administration, and LISA has always felt like a homecoming, reuniting with old friends while welcoming newcomers. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Post by Brendan Gregg and Rikki Endsley.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40