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. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management?

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Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 189

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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Servers Traffic Games Open Source 257

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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AWS Traffic Network Architecture 258

DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Therefore, resilience — the ability of a system to handle and recover from failures — becomes critically important in distributed environments.

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Architecture Software Engineering Traffic Engineering 258

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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Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring 261

DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience.

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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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Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

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. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. What characterizes a weak SLO? Use the default transformation.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 230

DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

This self-hosted graph routing solution is highly configurable, making it an ideal choice for developers who require a high-performance routing system. With its ability to handle large amounts of traffic and complex data, the Apollo router is quickly becoming a popular choice among developers seeking a reliable and efficient routing solution.

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Monitoring Performance Traffic Efficiency 245

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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Systems Ecommerce Development Website 59

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. These metrics are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation, all of which must be key considerations when curating user experience.

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Speed Software Software Latency 212

DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the rise of microservices and cloud-native applications, Jaeger has become a crucial tool for developers and system administrators to gain insights into the performance and behavior of their applications.

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Performance Storage Traffic Programming 161

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Many organizations, somewhat erroneously, respond to cloud complexity by using multiple tools to monitor and manage system health. Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said.

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Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 221

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Zero trust (ZT) mandates never trusting—but always verifying—any actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter, according to the OMB memo. Teams verify “anything and everything” that might attempt to gain access while enforcing least privilege.

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Government Analytics Network Traffic 184

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. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

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Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

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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Artificial Intelligence Strategy Traffic Virtualization 239

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1. The Apdex score of 0.85

Latency 181

Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 181

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage. It's midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times, currently serving as the "situation room."

Data Engineering 169

Data Engineering Engineering Traffic Systems 169

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. The Apdex score of 0.85

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

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. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

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DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 205

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. E-commerce platforms , online services, and apps that suffer large traffic volumes or seasonal surges in user activity need to perform load testing more than others.

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Testing Traffic Systems Performance 130

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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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 208

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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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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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 23, 2024

Given how slow the system is, installing this package could take several minutes. Since the server owners are now in the SRE chatroom to help with the outage, you ask: "how do you install system packages? " Maybe this system is too slow with the performance issue? "Linux Crisis Tools" in SysPerf 2.)

Servers 145

Servers Traffic Network Systems 145

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 220

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 220

DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

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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Strategy Latency Availability Traffic 141

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

It often involves replacing legacy systems and workflows that have been in place for years or even decades. Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads.

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Strategy Retail DevOps Education 179

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.

Cloud 227

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 227

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations.

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Traffic Java Network DevOps 168

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.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 237

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

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. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

Best Practices 227

Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 227

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Linux System Mining with Python ( Javalobby – The heart of the Java developer community). A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators ( Hacker News). History of Lisp ( Hacker News). A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News).

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Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

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. If successful, the system closes the loop and notifies teams.

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Best Practices DevOps Energy Innovation 197

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. The Envoy proxies also collect and report telemetry on all traffic among the services in the mesh. Why do you need a service mesh?

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Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 247