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. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic. How to get started.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 237

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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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

.” Through six years of research, the DORA team identified these four key metrics as those that indicate the performance of a DevOps team, ranking them from “low” to “elite,” where elite teams are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals. Application usage and traffic.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 205

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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

At Dynatrace, we’re constantly striving to come up with solutions that can help modernize your performance and user experience monitoring strategies. Fine-tune Session Replay for your business purposes—examples. Cost and traffic control. The following settings can be applied: Cost and traffic control : 100%.

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Traffic Tuning Strategy Website 215

Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

While infrastructure has historically been treated as a bottleneck where proper scaling and compute power are applied to improve performance, these aspects are now typically addressed by hyperscalers that offer cloud-based infrastructure and infrastructure as a service. You can read all about it in our Configuration as Code documentation.

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Best Practices Code Infrastructure Latency 195

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.

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 209

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

264/AVC Main profile family still represents a substantial portion of the members viewing hours and an even larger portion of the traffic. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264

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Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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 117

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience. POP in Mexico City After launching POPs in Dubai, Tel Aviv, Brisbane, Athens and Denver this year, the new POP boosts performance for Central America. The POP is in production and enabled for all existing Zones.

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Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog series where we’ll give you a more hands-on walkthrough of how to ingest any kind of data from StatsD, Telegraf, Prometheus, scripting languages, or our integrated REST API. Stay tuned. Dynatrace understands dependencies, traffic, and transaction flows and how they change over time.

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Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 258

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.

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Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 90

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

Redo Logs Starting from MySQL 8.0.30, the variable that should be tuned for optimizing the Redo Logs is innodb_redo_log_capacity , and we start with good news here: It’s dynamic! So you won’t have downtime if you need to tune this. Otherwise, the flushing may happen at the worst time possible due to the checkpoint being unavoidable.

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Tuning Open Source Database Engineering 86

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Canary Test Workloads In addition to serving the regular message traffic between users and DUTs, the control plane itself is stress-tested at roughly 3-hour intervals, where nearly 3000 ephemeral MQTT clients are created to connect to and generate flash traffic on the MQTT brokers.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With these new POPs, our performance in Latin America has improved significantly, providing a better web experience. Our mission is to improve web performance continuously, and each POP contributes to that. According to our pricing , traffic from this POP will be billed to Latin America. What's next?

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Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 60

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Tim Kadlec

MAY 21, 2020

By serving one version of the site with instant.page in place to some traffic, and a site without it to another, I could compare the performance of them both over the same timespan and see how it shakes out. It would have only taken moments in SpeedCurve to see live traffic come through, but I’m an impatient person.

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Testing Traffic Tuning Metrics 128

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As an application owner, you might want to ingest performance or business metrics into Dynatrace from various sources and take advantage of the full power of Davis AI topology-aware anomaly detection and alerting. The interface rejects any traffic that doesn’t originate from localhost.

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Metrics Open Source Tuning Traffic 171

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A lenient trace data sampling policy generates a large number of traces in each service container and can lead to degraded performance of streaming services as more CPU, memory, and network resources are consumed by the tracer library. This setup of chained Mantis jobs allows us to scale each data processing component independently.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. Although this can be somewhat helpful, it is not the same. Legacy Profiler "Standard" trace events.

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Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We work with millions of merchants, and as many companies, we obsess about storefront performance. We obsess even more about finding the optimal balance between performance, capabilities, and merchants’ business objectives. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Commerce At Shopify Scale: Hydrogen Powered By Oxygen.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 135

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

Applications will always have errors, but these errors don’t always warrant alerts as its not impacting end users and performance. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming. People cannot predict how their applications are going to behave ahead of time.

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Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 164

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. Consumers will leave you for slow or intermittent performance because there are other content options.

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Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Of all traffic, 53.3% Yes, SEO is a long-term approach, but it offers some unparalleled advantages to businesses in terms of brand recognition, visibility, reputation, and of course, web traffic and revenues. Stay tuned! You can stop such practices now and focus on your specific domain to get more traffic and leads.

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Google Traffic Social Media Website 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Existing Solutions Dual Writes In order to keep two datastores in sync, one could perform a dual write, which is executing a write to one datastore following a second write to the other. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service.

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Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Developers don’t have to put in additional time to fine-tuning the system, or rely on other teams for support, as it’s done automatically with the cloud provider. For workloads that require high performance, organizations would be better suited by purchasing their own servers. Focus on Application Development. Response Times.

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Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Of all those options, it’s safe to assume that text is the best choice for LCP performance because it loads and renders fast. These default priorities work reasonably well for most cases, usually resulting in a good performance. Improving Largest Contentful Paint performance. Fine-tuning JavaScript Resource Priorities.

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Media Tuning Metrics Google 69

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The control group’s traffic utilized the legacy Falcor stack, while the experiment population leveraged the new GraphQL client and was directed to the GraphQL Shim. The Replay Tester tool samples raw traffic streams from Mantis.

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Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 353

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Working around improving performance was an ongoing journey on SmashingMag for a while. In the end of last year we’ve noticed that we’ve seen quite a drop in performance in 2020, so we rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We were busy not only with performance and UX optimizations though. Vitaly Friedman. Large preview ).

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Mobile Design Cache Code 140

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

They used Bayesian Optimization to perform multi-metric optimization?—?e.g., For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers. The final stage performs some lexicographical post processing.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. For a deeper look into how to gain end-to-end observability into Kubernetes environments, tune into the on-demand webinar Harness the Power of Kubernetes Observability. What is Docker? Networking.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

They used Bayesian Optimization to perform multi-metric optimization?—?e.g., For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers. The final stage performs some lexicographical post processing.

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Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

InfoQ

MARCH 24, 2020

Ryan Landry, the senior director for TechOps at Fastly, has shared how network automation enables them to manage traffic peaks during popular live-streamed events such as the Super Bowl LIV.

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Network Traffic Tuning Programming 41

Percona

MARCH 7, 2019

I’ll show you how we approached the resolution of a MySQL performance issue and used Percona Monitoring and Management PMM to support troubleshooting. The customer had noticed a linear high CPU usage in one of their MySQL instances and was not able to figure out why as there was no much traffic hitting the app.

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C++ Traffic Servers Monitoring 98