Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic 266

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 266

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Progressive rollouts, rollbacks, storage orchestration, bin packing, self-healing, cost efficiency, and access to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem carry heavy observability challenges. Correlating performance issues with Kubernetes pod evictions. Performance issues and Kubernetes pod evictions.

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Storage Engineering Traffic Infrastructure 304

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 221

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 221

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

To improve DNS load-balancing performance, Web UI traffic is by default disabled when installing 13th and following node (or 7th and following in a datacenter for Premium HA ). You can enable/disable Web UI traffic for a node via Cluster REST API. Security enhanced by removing EXEC:ALL entry from dtrun sudoers setup.

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Traffic Storage Internet Internet 142

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. SLOs are a valuable tool for organizations to ensure the health and performance of their applications. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples?

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. The cohesive, albeit heterogeneous on-premises IT environments of the past have given way to a disaggregated, interdependent mélange of compute, network, and storage components, both on-premises and in the private and public clouds.

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Azure Traffic Virtualization Performance 145

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services.

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Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 189

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 223

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

The DBMS is key to maintaining these aspects by offering a storage system that allows users to perform operations such as data insertion, deletion, and selection, thereby promoting enhanced data integration across diverse applications and platforms. Practical Applications of DBMS DBMS finds practical applications in various fields.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. Unlike our competition, Dynatrace takes a holistic look at cluster health and automatically prevents performance issues. This means that disk space requirements for Dynatrace transaction storage may increase. What are the benefits of ALR?

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 157

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. Block compression can improve performance by allowing data to be read and written in smaller chunks.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 106

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They need to deliver impeccable performance without breaking the bank.According to recent industry statistics, global streaming has seen an uptick of 30% in the past year, underscoring the importance of efficient CDN architecture strategies. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content.Â

Architecture 52

Architecture Performance Internet Internet 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

are stored in secure storage layers. Amsterdam is built on top of three storage layers. Although this indexing strategy worked smoothly for a while, interesting challenges started coming up and we started to notice performance issues over time. When performing a query, we always execute it on the alias.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. A similar analysis can be performed on your GRO. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations. Automatic recovery for outages for up to 72 hours.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? The settings might not be optimal.

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 118

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Digital Experience Monitoring , as part of the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform, connects front-end monitoring and the outside-in user perspective with application performance to understand the impact of performance issues across your full stack on user experience and business outcomes. But wait, there’s more!

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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. It is proactive monitoring that simulates traffic with established test variables, including location, browser, network, and device type.

Monitoring 209

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. Help systems meet SLAs.

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Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2022

With companies across industries strengthening their digital offerings to cater to demanding customers who can switch to competitors with a few clicks, it’s imperative to make digital offerings that are more performant, feature-rich, and immersive.

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Traffic DevOps Storage Innovation 212

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A low-cost CDN may not always be as reliable and high-performing as a high-cost one. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the right balance between costs and performance & reliability according to your business needs.Here are some questions to ask yourself before choosing a CDN:How important is the price to you?

Infrastructure 52

Infrastructure Traffic Cache Strategy 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades. Each of these platforms offers a wide range of services and tools for web application development and deployment, including storage, databases, and serverless computing.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

Recently I was working with a customer wherein our focus was to carry out a performance audit of their multiple MySQL database nodes. We started looking into the stats of the performance schema. I realized that it is important to understand the insights of the performance schema and how we can make effective use of it.

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Performance C++ Monitoring Servers 98

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. Thus making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking a successful implementation of their multi-cloud strategy.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Prodicle Distribution Our service is required to be elastic and handle bursty traffic. The watermarking functionality, at the start, was a simple offering with various Google Drive integrations for storage and links. We expect the performance and scaling to continue to get better without much effort on our part.

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Traffic Latency Java Google 160