Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. The goal of an assessment is to locate weaknesses that can be exploited to compromise systems. Changing system configurations. Identify vulnerabilities. Analyze findings. Assess risk.

Infrastructure 170

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System 170

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This means organizations are increasingly using Kubernetes not just for running applications, but also as an operating system.

Infrastructure 186

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 186

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. 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.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news. What is infrastructure monitoring?

Infrastructure 200

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 200

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. Two styles of message queuing.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

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. Two styles of message queuing.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

IT admins can automate virtually any time-consuming task that requires regular application. It’s also crucial to test frequently when automating IT operations so that you don’t automatically replicate mistakes. And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues?

Artificial Intelligence 188

Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 188

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Understanding why a user is experiencing transactional or performance issues enables organizations to achieve greater observability that goes beyond metrics, traces and logs. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 203

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. As a platform operator, you want to identify problems quickly and learn from them to prevent future outages.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages?

Database 91

Database Servers Open Source C++ 91

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Not because MySQL wasn’t performant but because the out-of-the-box defaults weren’t adequate for heavy traffic. No proprietary operating system or database required.

Open Source 99

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 99

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing?

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As a result, IT teams can automate and manage processes across on-premises and cloud-based systems, or between multiple cloud services to prevent vendor lock-in. With the proliferation of infrastructure-as-code tools, operations teams can: Deploy, configure, or tear down workloads into an instance in real-time. Register now!

Infrastructure 172

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 172

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. Managed Instance provides two tiers for performance. GB per vCore.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

In the example below we have modified the SQL Server, number of warehouses to build and the virtual users to build them. We have set the connection value of mssqls_server and then the tpcc value of the warehouse count and the number of virtual users to build them. GUI Virtual User Options. CLI Virtual User Options.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

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

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

This article examines the history of architectural support, summarizes research philosophies, and delves into possible reasons for relatively little support for software security in current systems. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your IT environment is important. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up? The short answer is that they aren’t.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Games 40

DZone

MAY 4, 2023

In recent years, virtualization has become an increasingly popular way of managing computing resources, enabling users to run multiple operating systems and applications on a single machine.

Virtualization 141

Virtualization Operating System Systems Performance 141

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Your customers demand optimal performance, whether they’re the only user or one of a thousand. 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. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

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

Testsigma

DECEMBER 12, 2020

To ease out the web development, developers think of new ways to have a dedicated and organised system of sustainable websites such as subgrids. Let alone browsers, the website may get into trouble for different resolutions, different operating systems and different browser versions too!! Challenges In Cross-Browser Testing.

Testing 53

Testing Operating System Website Latency 53

Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With the continued growth of applications being used in and out of an organization, getting a firm grasp on the performance of these devices and its impact on your environment is important. Legacy performance testing platforms have their place and are still required to ensure past investments can be monitored.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Software 40

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

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise. to meet those requirements.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 86

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 86

Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

Even though most of the web browsers adhere to the Open Web Standards and render HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it does not guarantee constant performance throughout browsers. If an app ill-performs due to browser or viewport – the user experience is severely hampered. What Is Covered Under Cross Browser Compatibility Testing?

Website 65

Website Benchmarking Operating System Testing Tools 65

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The basic question here is whether it is practical to support a large-scale C-language software stack with strong pointer-based protection… with only modest changes to existing C code-bases and with reasonable performance cost. That ‘reasonable’ performance cost is a 6.8% We answer this question affirmatively. Conceptual model.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

The Polyglot Developer

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I created this blog not too long ago in an effort to help developers, system administrators, and even bloggers. As many of you know, I’m using Digital Ocean to host this WordPress blog because it gives me the performance I need for the amount of traffic I receive.

Traffic 52

Traffic Virtualization Operating System Servers 52

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

To ensure the features run uniformly across various browsers and OS versions that our users have, we should perform multi-browser testing. Plus, there are multiple versions of operating systems and screen resolutions that our users browse content on. . with Safari at 8.87%. Picture Credit: Kinsta.

Testing Tools 74

Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. 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.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. RUM gathers data from real life users to analyze application performance. What is application performance monitoring (APM)?

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. 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.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. Apart from disconnections, another cause of worry is the inability to access virtual environments which are generally used by the testers for testing applications. due to unstable network connections.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

So the PAUSE instruction is an optimization over NOP when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock and is particularly important in spin-locks on x86 CPUs for power and performance. ” and “as the PAUSE latency has been increased significantly, workloads that are sensitive to PAUSE latency will suffer some performance loss.”

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

In the past, it was always important for testers to learn to code and keep updating their skills for performing automation tests. Since there is no need to write any piece of code — testers can write test cases that are often aided by AI, therefore enhancing both performance and the speed of testing. What is it, and why do we need it?

Testing 57

Testing Testing Tools Automotive Scalability 57