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Black Friday traffic exposes gaps in observability strategies

Dynatrace

What’s the problem with Black Friday traffic? But that’s difficult when Black Friday traffic brings overwhelming and unpredictable peak loads to retailer websites and exposes the weakest points in a company’s infrastructure, threatening application performance and user experience. Why Black Friday traffic threatens customer experience.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Digital transformation strategies: Success stories from three digital transformation journeys

Dynatrace

Digital transformation strategies are fundamentally changing how organizations operate and deliver value to customers. A comprehensive digital transformation strategy can help organizations better understand the market, reach customers more effectively, and respond to changing demand more quickly. Competitive advantage.

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Multi Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? 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.

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FIFO vs. LIFO: Which Queueing Strategy Is Better for Availability and Latency?

DZone

But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? In this post, we'll explore both strategies through a simple simulation in Colab, allowing you to see the impact of changing parameters on system performance. Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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Multi-CDN Strategy: Benefits and Best Practices

IO River

implement a M-CDN, organizations can use traffic management tools or Multi-CDN switching solutions that distribute and route content across the various CDN providers. Network RedundancyThe primary and most important advantage of a Multi-CDN strategy is redundancy, and, consequently, improved reliability.

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

Dynatrace

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.

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