March, 2024

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The State of Observability 2024: Navigating Complexity With AI-Driven Insights

DZone

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly embracing multi-cloud environments and cloud-native architectures to drive innovation and deliver seamless customer experiences. However, the 2024 State of Observability report from Dynatrace reveals that the explosion of data generated by these complex ecosystems is pushing traditional monitoring and analytics approaches to their limits.

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Easily monitor IBM i with updated Dynatrace extension

Dynatrace

What is IBM i? IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. IBM i is designed to integrate seamlessly with legacy and modern applications, allowing businesses to run critical workloads and applications.

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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

David J. Berg , Romain Cledat , Kayla Seeley , Shashank Srikanth , Chaoying Wang , Darin Yu Netflix uses data science and machine learning across all facets of the company, powering a wide range of business applications from our internal infrastructure and content demand modeling to media understanding. The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data sc

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District heating: Using data centers to heat communities

All Things Distributed

An inside look at the Tallaght District Heating Scheme, where Heat Works is using recycled heat from an AWS data center to warm a community in Dublin, Ireland.

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eBPF Documentary

Brendan Gregg

eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it accepted had so far been an untold story of strategy and ingenuity. The eBPF documentary, published late last year, tells this story by interviewing key players from 2014 including myself, and touches on new developments including Windows. (If you are new to eBPF, it is the name of a kernel execution engine that runs a variety of new programs in a performant and safe sandbox in the kernel, lik

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Uber Builds Scalable Chat Using Microservices with GraphQL Subscriptions and Kafka

InfoQ

Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.

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Essential Techniques for Performance Tuning in Snowflake

DZone

Performance tuning in Snowflake is optimizing the configuration and SQL queries to improve the efficiency and speed of data operations. It involves adjusting various settings and writing queries to reduce execution time and resource consumption, ultimately leading to cost savings and enhanced user satisfaction.

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Evolving from Rule-based Classifier: Machine Learning Powered Auto Remediation in Netflix Data…

The Netflix TechBlog

Evolving from Rule-based Classifier: Machine Learning Powered Auto Remediation in Netflix Data Platform by Binbing Hou , Stephanie Vezich Tamayo , Xiao Chen , Liang Tian , Troy Ristow , Haoyuan Wang , Snehal Chennuru , Pawan Dixit This is the first of the series of our work at Netflix on leveraging data insights and Machine Learning (ML) to improve the operational automation around the performance and cost efficiency of big data jobs.

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Managing Time Series Data Using TimeScaleDB-Powered PostgreSQL

Percona

PostgreSQL extensions are great! Simply by adding an extension, one transforms what is an otherwise vanilla general-purpose database management system into one capable of processing data requirements in a highly optimized fashion. Some extensions, like pg_repack, simplify and enhance existing features already, while other extensions, such as PostGIS and pgvector, add completely new capabilities.

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Hello INP! Here's everything you need to know about the newest Core Web Vital

Speed Curve

After years of development and testing, Google has added Interaction to Next Paint (INP) to its trifecta of Core Web Vitals – the performance metrics that are a key ingredient in its search ranking algorithm. INP replaces First Input Delay (FID) as the Vitals responsiveness metric. Not sure what INP means or why it matters? No worries – that's what this post is for. :) What is INP?

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Setting Up Your Environment for Kubernetes Operators Using Docker, kubectl, and k3d

Percona Community

If you are just starting out in the world of Kubernetes operators, like me, preparing the environment for their installation should be something we do with not much difficulty. This blog will quickly guide you in setting the minimal environment. Kubernetes operators are invaluable for automating complex database operations, tasks that Kubernetes does not handle directly.

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Machine Learning: A Revolutionizing Force in Cybersecurity

DZone

The cybersecurity landscape necessitates continual adaptation and exploration of novel defensive strategies to counter the evolving threats posed by malicious actors. Machine learning ( ML ) has emerged as a powerful tool for bolstering cybersecurity, offering innovative approaches to anomaly detection, intrusion prevention, and threat identification.

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Dynatrace strengthens container security across popular cloud-based registries

Dynatrace

Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines and build processes often expose Kubernetes to attack vectors via internet-sourced container images. Despite scanning, these container images can still be susceptible to supply chain attacks if not properly verified. Ensuring immutability—coupled with thorough scanning and strict verification—is crucial for any container entering Kubernetes clusters.

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Bending pause times to your will with Generational ZGC

The Netflix TechBlog

The surprising and not so surprising benefits of generations in the Z Garbage Collector. By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosystem Team The latest long term support release of the JDK delivers generational support for the Z Garbage Collector. More than half of our critical streaming video services are now running on JDK 21 with Generational ZGC, so it’s a good time to talk about our experience and the benefits we’ve seen.

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Help Us Improve MySQL Usability and Double Win!

Percona

What makes a great user experience? There are probably as many answers to this question as there are users because we are talking about very subjective and personal feelings and observations.

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What is System Testing? – Getting Started, Tips, and Tools

Testlodge

System testing involves analyzing the behavior and functionality of a fully integrated application. It is the third of the four levels of testing, performed after unit and integration testing but before user acceptance testing. A QA team member will usually do the assessing, or occasionally the task will fall to other team members such as product or project managers.

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Continuous performance with guardrails and breadcrumbs

Speed Curve

The hardest part about web performance isn’t making your site faster – it’s keeping it that fast. Hearing about a company that devoted significant effort into optimizing their site, only to find their performance right back where it started a few months later, is all too familiar. The reality is that, as critical as site speed is, it’s also very easy to overlook.

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Effective Communication Strategies Between Microservices: Techniques and Real-World Examples

DZone

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. Microservices allow teams to deploy and scale parts of their application independently, improving agility and reducing the complexity of updates and scaling. This step-by-step guide outlines the process of creating a microservices-based system, complete with detailed examples. 1.

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Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.287

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace version 1.287. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.287 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Presentation: The Journey to a Million Ops / Sec / Node in Venice

InfoQ

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node.

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Percona Operator for MySQL Now Supports Automated Volume Expansion in Technical Preview

Percona

Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their Persistent Volumes and underlying storage within Kubernetes. There is no need to use clouds’ UI or APIs to do that anymore.

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Release Roundup March 18, 2024

Percona Community

Percona software releases and updates March 5 - March 18, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

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WordPress VIP For Website Development: Revolutionizing Enterprise Growth!

Official Blog - World Web Technology

“Automatic,” the website development company behind various WordPress-related products, including WordPress.com, offers WordPress VIP. It is a premium managed hosting service explicitly designed for high-traffic and high-profile websites. WordPress website development is mainly used for those belonging to institutions with demanding online needs. These institutions include publishers, media organizations, large enterprises, and others.

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Scalable Products: Why, When, and How to Scale Your Digital Product?

DZone

Do you know what the global edtech and smart classroom market size was in 2022? No idea? Then, we must inform you that it was somewhere around USD 115.80 billion, which is estimated to grow from USD 133.55 billion in 2023 to USD 433.17 billion in 2030. Yes, you read that right! And among all the contributors to these numbers, Physics Wallah has been a well-known name.

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Pivoting to a total experience strategy: A necessity for governments today

Dynatrace

Today, citizens are no longer passive recipients of government services, but rather active participants in a digital age. From mobile applications to websites, government services must be accessible, available, and performant for those who rely on them. Citizens need seamless digital experiences, which is why the concept of a total experience (TX) strategy is gaining traction among government institutions.

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Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis

InfoQ

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.

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Analyzing Slow Queries After MongoDB 4.4

Percona

Before MongoDB 4.4, we had a tool to use to analyze slow queries from the log file called mplotqueries from mtools (thanks, Thomas Rueckstiess, for the tool and the inspiration).Mplotqueries is a great tool that helped analyze slow queries on MongoDB Community, Enterprise, and Percona for MongoDB versions. But when MongoDB 4.

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Continuous Testing vs. Test Automation: 3 Key Differences

Kovair

Continuous testing vs Automated testing are the two phrases that are used as synonyms. But they aren’t synonyms. It’s the fact that they complement one.

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Release Roundup March 4, 2024

Percona Community

Percona software releases and updates February 21 - March 4, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

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Achieving High Availability in CI/CD With Observability

DZone

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, The Modern DevOps Lifecycle: Shifting CI/CD and Application Architectures. Forbes estimates that cloud budgets will break all previous records as businesses will spend over $1 trillion on cloud computing infrastructure in 2024. Since most application releases depend on cloud infrastructure, having good continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and end-to-end observability bec

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Tech Transforms podcast: How federal agencies can maximize the value of “data as the new oil”

Dynatrace

In recent years, technologists and business leaders have dubbed data as “the new oil.” Why? Because both oil and data require their owners to refine them to unleash their true value. So how do you realize the vast potential of data while protecting it from threats? On Episode 78 of the Tech Transforms podcast, we dove into these concepts with JR Williamson, senior vice president and chief information security officer (CISO) at Leidos.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

Scope. To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities.

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Easy Way to Provision a PostgreSQL Cluster on Kubernetes

Percona

If you are reading this blog post, chances are you’re either curious about Kubernetes Operators, or you’ve specifically decided to install the Percona Operator for PostgreSQL, which I am glad to know!Suppose your environment isn’t set up yet.

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Evolving Trends and Techniques in Software Testing

Kovair

In the era of digital dominance, software quality is no longer a luxury, it’s a lifeline. A staggering 90% of software defects originate during the.

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Master MySQL Point in Time Recovery

Scalegrid

Data loss or corruption can be daunting. With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity.

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Logging and Monitoring in a Docker Swarm Environment

DZone

Docker Swarm is a popular container orchestration technology that makes containerized application administration easier. While Docker Swarm provides strong capabilities for deploying and scaling applications, it’s also critical to monitor and report the performance and health of your Swarm clusters. In this post, we will look at logging and monitoring in a Docker Swarm environment, as well as best practices, tools, and tactics for keeping your cluster working smoothly.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.286

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace Managed version 1.286. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.286 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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