Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

This article explores SLOs for service performance. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. SLOs, as a measure of service quality, can track the related availability, reliability, and performance.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

HAProxy is one of the cornerstones in complex distributed systems, essential for achieving efficient load balancing and high availability. This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application.

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DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

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Speed Curve

APRIL 22, 2024

Celebrating performance wins is critical to a healthy, well-supported, high-performing team. In that spirit, we're reigniting the tradition of spotlighting Performance Heroes from our awesome community. Paul recently spoke about font performance at the NY WebPerf Meetup Group , which he co-chairs. This isn't a new idea.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. To maintain the reliability, security, and performance of your microservices , you need a well-structured service mesh.

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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. 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

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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.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Application security monitoring is the practice of monitoring and analyzing applications or software systems to detect vulnerabilities, identify threats, and mitigate attacks. Forensics focuses on the systemic investigation and analysis of digital evidence to determine root causes.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. What characterizes a weak SLO?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Benefits of quality gates Quality gates provide several advantages to organizations, including the following: Optimized software performance : Quality gates assess code at different SDLC stages and ensure that only high-quality code progresses. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Today, every business wants high-performing and high-quality software. But usually, it is seen that most of the applications fail to deliver expected performance under peak load or fluctuating network conditions. What Is Performance Testing? Today, let's learn more about this testing type in depth.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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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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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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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

Through load testing , businesses may determine how well their system performs under typical and predicted peak loads, ensuring that it can withstand the demands of actual usage. We will discuss the concept of load testing in this blog article, as well as its significance and practical application to ensure optimum performance.

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to do so, but if you’d prefer to watch the steps check out my Performance Clinic here. Step #3 Get an overview of the campaign traffic.

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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. Let’s dive into how these metrics and DevOps KPIs can help your team perform better and deliver better code.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. availability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

However, as AI systems become more complex and sophisticated, organizations are learning that they need to ensure the AI they use is responsible and trustworthy. It can be difficult to understand the basis of AI systems’ decisions, particularly when they are trained on large and complex data sets. AI system bias.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's being reposted here for completeness, but if you care about web performance, make sure to check out the whole series and get subscribed to the RSS feed to avoid missing any of next year's posts. The predominant answer: a unified theory of web performance. What, in particular, is "web performance"? How do we do it?

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s interesting to note that many of the CMS systems available today started as simple blogging platforms. When choosing a CMS system, there are a few things to remember. While some CMS systems can be expensive, many options are available. Top 5 Content Management Systems to Use in 2023! of all websites.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

As monolithic applications have given way to cloud-connected microservices that perform distinct functions, containerized environments, such as the Kubernetes platform, have become the framework of choice. It controls the delivery of service requests to other services, performs load balancing, encrypts data, and discovers other services.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

SREs use Service-Level Indicators (SLI) to see the complete picture of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across various systems, especially revenue-critical systems. Siloed teams and multiple tools make it difficult to align on a single version of the truth for overall system health.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

They help organizations streamline and automate complex and time-consuming procedures and improve overall performance. It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades. Previously, they had 12 tools with different traffic thresholds. Improved customer experience.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organisation is involved in achieving APRA compliance, you are likely facing the daunting effort of de-risking critical system delivery. Moreover, for banking organisations, there is a good chance some of those systems are outdated. And when a system breaks, AI-enabled platforms like these find the issue in seconds.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. Step 1: Understand Traffic Patterns and Potential Spikes; Remove Team Silos. The impact of traffic spikes is illustrated by the load that eCommerce web sites typically see during Black Friday. The next step is to understand when your system is going to break.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

However, with these benefits come complexities in terms of cloud management, Kubernetes observability, and automation, making it imperative for enterprises to address these intricacies to enhance reliability, performance, and resource usage.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 29, 2024

Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. The goal is to either improve or restore the system to its optimally functioning state. Ideally, this all occurs without human intervention.

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