Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

We will also explore the evolution of DevOps automation and the significance of data-driven answers in unlocking streamlined, automated DevOps and SRE processes. Business process automation Business process automation is the foundation for improving operational efficiency. But it doesn’t stop there.

DevOps 228

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Serverless Lambda Azure AWS 216

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. CRITICAL : This traffic affects the ability to play.

Traffic 252

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 252

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Tracking changes to automated processes, including auditing impacts to the system, and reverting to the previous environment states seamlessly. The ultimate goal of each of these reviews is to identify gaps, quantify risk, and develop recommendations for improving the team, processes, and architecture with each of the five pillars.

AWS 147

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

However, they are scattered across multiple systems, and there isn’t an easy way to tie related messages together. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? Things got hairy. We wanted a scalable service that was near real-time, 2.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. Our internal IPC traffic is now a mix of plain REST, GraphQL , and gRPC.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. This leads us to the process page of our specific Apache instance.

Metrics 179

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 179

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

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

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. Whether the process is exposed to the Internet.

Open Source 185

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 185

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. ‍But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 52

Traffic Cache Servers Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Another thread or process is constantly polling events from the log table and writes them to one or multiple datastores, optionally removing events from the log table after acknowledged by all datastores. Another issue exists for the capture of schema changes, where some systems, like MySQL, don’t support transactional schema changes [1][2].

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

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. Telegraf is a plugin-based system for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics. Stay tuned.

Open Source 259

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 259

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.

Database 94

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 94

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Just as a well-coordinated airport directs flights to multiple runways based on traffic and weather conditions, a CDN with Multiple Origins Load Balancing ensures that web traffic is distributed across various data centers, optimizing performance and reliability. But how does it decide where to send this traffic?

Traffic 40

Traffic Cache Network Servers 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e., PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways).

Monitoring 213

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 213

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. ‍At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. It's an ongoing, iterative process. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The coupling problem Until recently, video quality measurements were generated as part of our Reloaded production system. This system is responsible for processing incoming media files, such as video, audio and subtitles, and making them playable on the streaming service. We call this system Cosmos.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

With our comprehensive and actionable articles, you’ll gain the knowledge and insights needed to navigate each stage of the development process with confidence. Stay tuned to learn how to lay the foundation for a successful clone app that converts readers into leads. What do you aim to achieve with your UberEats clone?

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. In this section, we’ll outline the essential steps involved in migrating to open source databases.

Open Source 92

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

Our mission is to provide automatic answers, including root cause analysis, for performance degradation across all these systems and environments, regardless of the underlying hardware architecture. Network measurements with per-interface and per-process resolution. Network metrics are also collected for detected processes.

Java 134

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 134

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Good examples are: ETL processes for data archiving, reporting, data consolidation and so on. MySQL package installers for Linux systems should set this capability. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. It is possible to do more tuning in the case that ETL is too compromised. Will this work?

Tuning 45

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 45

Particular Software

APRIL 9, 2018

Based on our experience running business systems in production, we know we need to monitor our theme park to make sure it's working properly. We can use this data to extrapolate when we need to upgrade the electrical system, add a new water pipe, add more bays to our carpark, or commission more trucks to haul away our trash.

Systems 40

Systems Infrastructure Monitoring Tuning 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In technical terms, network-level firewalls regulate access by blocking or permitting traffic based on predefined rules. At its core, WAF operates by adhering to a rulebook—a comprehensive list of conditions that dictate how to handle incoming web traffic. It's an ongoing, iterative process. You've put new rules in place.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2019

Self-service content management systems, for instance, allow non-IT staff to make content changes on production systems. Dynatrace automatically detects processes and services and will observe their behaviour. For instance, when there isn’t enough traffic (late at night), the AI will not act to avoid alert spamming.

Best Practices 165

Best Practices Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Tuning 165

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Resilience : Critical production business systems must not fail. This capability provides version information along with an additional insight into traffic and problems per version. All-in-one observability and enterprise-grade control plane. This ensures only high-quality code automatically progresses through the delivery pipeline.

Cloud 174

Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 174

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a result, e xisting application security approaches can’t keep up with this speed and vari ability of modern development processes. . With DevSecOps processes having shifted security testing “left”, will the teams have enough time to manually analyze, assess, and manage risks based on sampled or scheduled scan results?

Cloud 296

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 296

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task. ” (We’ll miss rush hour traffic.) “What if I bring my duffel bag instead of the roll-aboard?” What makes a complex system troublesome isn’t the sheer number of connections.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

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. For some reason this thing will not go away! Legacy Profiler "Standard" trace events. An Updated XE Session.

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96