InfoQ

MARCH 26, 2024

Lesley Cordero focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability for growing organizations through DevOps principles, centralization, and scalable technical practices. By Lesley Cordero

Engineering 57

Engineering DevOps Scalability Performance 57

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

Efficiency 222

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 222

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

Architecture 65

Architecture Technology Technology Design 65

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

Scalability 73

Scalability Efficiency Systems Architecture 73

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

Performance Testing 220

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 220

InfoQ

MARCH 16, 2024

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node. By Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu

Latency 96

Latency Design Scalability Architecture 96

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

Design 55

Design Systems Performance Scalability 55

DZone

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The performance of data-centric applications has always been a concern. Applications that use Entity Framework in their data access layer have performance issues. There are several ways in which you can improve the performance of applications that use Entity Framework Core in their data access layers.

Strategy 192

Strategy Performance Best Practices Development 192

InfoQ

OCTOBER 4, 2023

During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Yao Yue, a Founder of IOP Systems, presented on performance engineering. Yue discussed in her session the evolving performance engineering in the modern era.

Engineering 103

Engineering Performance Hardware Systems 103

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Across both his day one and day two mainstage presentations, Steve Tack, SVP of Product Management, described some of the investments we’re making to continue to differentiate the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. This drives precise answers in real-time about performance issues and anomalies across the full stack.

Performance 244

Performance Analytics Mobile Innovation 244

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 57

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 57

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Billy Lynch, Zack Newman discuss the architecture and internals of Sigstore and keyless signing, along with the security considerations that drove the design. By Billy Lynch, Zack Newman

Infrastructure 67

Infrastructure Scalability Software Software 67

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

Performance Testing 243

Performance Testing Testing Performance Testing Tools 243

DZone

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When a user logs on to this desktop/laptop or mobile, opens a browser, and types the name of a website, the browser displays the required information, and the user performs an action on the site. Moreover, it also ensures that valid data is present in all user requests.

Architecture 262

Architecture Mobile Website Servers 262

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Increase in environment complexity and increased frequency in delivery requires a novel approach to performance optimization.

Performance 191

Performance Java Metrics Cloud 191

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

InfoQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. By Aditi Gupta

Design 55

Design Development Scalability Architecture 55

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a guest keynote speaker at Dynatrace Perform 2022 , Tegmark set the stage for AI as the ultimate technology for game-changers. For the 30,000 AI game-changers and technologists attending Dynatrace Perform across the world, Professor Tegmark gave an assignment. “Be Be proactive.

Artificial Intelligence 223

Artificial Intelligence Games Technology Technology 223

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing.

Engineering 208

Engineering Testing Performance Performance Testing 208

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Enterprises are effectively in need of applications that are quality-assured and high-performing because these two factors help in improving the user experience and demand among customers. The world is moving fast with many modern technologies, and this has eventually increased the need for having powerful and high-performing applications.

Performance Testing 124

Performance Testing Performance Testing Technology 124

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As business goals and technology efforts continue to converge, organizations need to ensure teams are performing to their full potential. When users encounter issues with applications or services, performance and productivity drop. The unified observability and security platform presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways.

Best Practices 243

Best Practices Metrics AWS Innovation 243

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just like that, we’re back in Las Vegas for Perform, and this year we’ve really stepped it up a notch. Returning to The Cosmopolitan Hotel, our first day of mainstage presentations was a show stopping performance. We’ve got 50 countries represented at Perform this year, with over 2,000 attendees. Dynatrace news.

Performance 196

Performance Innovation Technology Technology 196

DZone

JANUARY 29, 2021

Application Programming Interface acts as the center level between the database and presentation layer in the software development procedure. Every app you build nowadays completely relies on Application Programming Interfaces.

Testing 207

Testing Programming Performance Database 207

DZone

MARCH 12, 2024

By predicting service demand in advance, Smart Scaler ensures that resources are precisely aligned with needs, optimizing both performance and cost. However, this presented a significant friction point in current operating models. The idea for Smart Scaler came out of my experience running SaaS platforms.

Scalability 152

Scalability Cloud Infrastructure Design 152

DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is a recording of a breakout session from AWS Heroes at re:Invent 2022, presented by AWS Hero Zainab Maleki. In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. Posted with permission.

Software Engineering 264

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 264

InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. Data Featurization A complete list of features used in this work is presented in Table 1. The features mainly belong to two distinct classes.

C++ 312

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

During the Dynatrace annual user conference, Perform , the Partner Summit session returned, welcoming Global System Integrators (GSIs), Hyperscalers, and Cloud Solutions Partners to participate. Partners play a crucial role in driving cloud migrations and digital transformation for customers, ensuring return on their investments are realized.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence IoT Programming Innovation 202

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks.

Benchmarking 133

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 133

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. By Michelle Garrett.

Processing 105

Processing Design Scalability Architecture 105

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

AWS 288

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 288

Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM. Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering.

Efficiency 100

Efficiency Artificial Intelligence Scalability Performance 100

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Sharding is often applied to databases for several reasons, including improving query performance , facilitating data organization , and enhancing scalability. The above diagram presents a visual representation of a sharded database.

Database 228

Database Scalability Servers Performance 228