DZone

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In simple terms, a Load Balancer is like the traffic cop of the internet. Distributing incoming web traffic among multiple servers. Hey there, I'm Roman, a Cloud Architect at Gart with over 15 years of experience. Today, I want to delve into the world of Load Balancers with you. Its main gig?

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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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DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

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DZone

JULY 8, 2023

Envoy proxy, the data plane of Istio service mesh, is used for handling east-west traffic ( service-to-service communication within a data center). However, to make Istio manage a network of multicloud applications, Envoy was configured as a sidecar proxy for handling north-south traffic (traffic in and out of data centers).

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

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. This helped us successfully migrate 100% of the traffic on the mobile homepage canvas to GraphQL in 6 months. After validating performance, we slowly built up scope.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience. These proxies act as vigilant guardians, adept at intercepting and directing incoming and outgoing traffic between services.

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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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DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

Under a heavy load, the application could break if the traffic routing, load balancing, etc., In this blog post, we will discuss the open-source service mesh Kuma, its architecture, and its easy-to-implement policies like traffic control, metrics, circuit breaking, etc. were not optimized. This led to the growth of service mesh.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This ensures that a failing service doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers, preventing further strain and potential cascading failures.

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TechBeacon Testing

JULY 20, 2020

This year's Amazon Prime Day may be delayed (reportedly until August or September), but when it does arrive, it is certain to bring with it the usual flood of web traffic from hungry shoppers looking for killer deals.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Detect and respond to security threats like DDoS attacks or web application attacks by monitoring application traffic and logs.

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DZone

JULY 18, 2023

In canary deployments, the new version, called canary, is tested with limited live traffic at first. They cannot skip testing a release for the sake of adhering to continuous delivery practices, can they?

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DZone

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How do you make Jaeger even more effective for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed applications, especially in high-traffic, demanding environments where a high-performance storage solution is critical? Use the best-performing Jaeger storage backend that you can find.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic. By Rafal Gancarz

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DZone

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

In this article, we will look at two types of load balancers: one used to expose Kubernetes services to the external world and another used by engineers to balance network traffic loads to those services. Keep reading to get proven best practices for dealing with a Kubernetes load balancer.

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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. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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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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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Statista shares insightful data on mobile web traffic that accounts for more than 50% globally from 1st quarter 2015 to 3rd quarter 2020. This increase in web traffic from mobile users comes with an expectation.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2023

This leads to an increasing number of users coming online to use these services, leading to a surge in traffic on websites and web applications. there was a massive influx of traffic and interest from people all around the world. For instance, after the announcement of ChatGPT 3.5,

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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. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said. What has been happening on the network when apps experience issues?

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Improved availability: Caching can help maintain service availability during high-traffic periods or in case of temporary server failures by serving content from the cache.

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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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DZone

MAY 26, 2021

Let us consider two scenarios where website traffic may increase: The goal of this kind of testing is to measure the error handling capabilities of the software to ensure that it does not crash under extremely heavy load conditions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s a significant amount and certainly more than is necessary relative to the traffic on most clusters. More acutely, if a traffic spike occurs and Zuul instances scale up, it exponentially increases connections open to origins. There is effectively no churn of connections, even at peak traffic.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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

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DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

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. This self-hosted graph routing solution is highly configurable, making it an ideal choice for developers who require a high-performance routing system.

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DZone

JANUARY 14, 2023

Improving 4G Networks Traffic Distribution With Anomaly Detection Previous generations of cellular networks were not very efficient with the distribution of network resources, providing coverage evenly for all territories all the time. While the technology is far from perfect, the advancements in ML allow other industries to benefit as well.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters. This separation allows us to tune system configuration and scaling policies independently for different event priorities and traffic patterns.

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DZone

JUNE 11, 2023

With the network getting abstracted from the application logic using sidecars, security and traffic management will be easy to manage from a central location. These sidecars are used to facilitate service-to-service communication among the applications stack.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2023

A couple of months ago, the new Kubernetes Gateway API graduated to beta, which probably means you have several questions, like: Why do you need another API to handle external traffic when you have the stable Kubernetes Ingress API and dozens of implementations? What problems of the Ingress API does the new Gateway API solve?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If price is your top priority, you'll need to decide how much you're willing to sacrifice in terms of reliability and performance.What are your traffic patterns like? If your traffic is mostly static, you may be able to meet all your needs with a less expensive CDN that provides content distribution services.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

Traffic The traffic SLO example measures the amount of traffic or workload an application receives, either in terms of requests per second or data transfer rate. The traffic SLO targets the website’s ability to handle a high volume of transactional activity during periods of high demand. The Apdex score of 0.85

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

This application was slowing down sometimes during high traffic volume periods; sometimes during low traffic periods as well. This application was slowing down intermittently. To recover from the problem, the application had to be restarted. There was no cohesive pattern.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A quick canary test was free of errors and showed lower latency, which is expected given that our standard canary setup routes an equal amount of traffic to both the baseline running on 4xl and the canary on 12xl. What’s worse, average latency degraded by more than 50%, with both CPU and latency patterns becoming more “choppy.”

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DZone

APRIL 13, 2023

It’s not just e-commerce — a small fraction of airports handle most of the air traffic, just a tiny minority of celebrities are household names, and only a handful of blockbuster movies dominate the box office each year. If those pages aren’t available, it doesn’t matter that the rest of your site is working fine.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. Outages are a common occurrence; a global outage could take the entire network down while local outages could force the CDN vendor to serve the traffic from a non-local PoP.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

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. We will discuss the concept of load testing in this blog article, as well as its significance and practical application to ensure optimum performance. So let’s start now!

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