Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Dynatrace platform’s unique features are now available on Azure As of today, Azure customers can leverage the latest Dynatrace core innovations on Microsoft Azure, including: Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse unifies the massive volume and variety of observability, security, and business data from cloud-native, hybrid, and multicloud environments while retaining data context to deliver instant, cost-efficient, and precise analytics.

Azure 166

Azure Cloud Metrics Innovation 166

Percona

MAY 22, 2024

You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off its cloud, and everything disappeared—zip, zero, nada. Everything they relied upon was gone. Their Google Cloud experience has been labeled an “unprecedented occurrence.

Google 89

Google Cloud Testing Database 89

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Red Hat and Dynatrace are joining forces to revolutionize day One and day Two operations. A tight integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis ® AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from: Detecting a problem. Managing incidents in corresponding tools.

DevOps 284

DevOps Software Engineering Games Java 284

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2024

My team and I set out to build a simple note taking aide, which transcribes and summarizes our meetings using Bedrock. Today, we’re making the proof of concept available to everyone.

Availability 167

Availability 167

Percona

MAY 16, 2024

As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things you should not do” in Valkey.No passwordBy default, Valkey/Redis uses no authentication. This means anyone can connect to your Valkey server and start writing and reading data.

Servers 119

Servers Best Practices Open Source Development 119

InfoQ

MAY 14, 2024

Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation. By combining smart and meaningful choices for each of these three components, we can build massively scalable, SLO-compliant stateful services at Netflix.

Systems 106

Systems Scalability Servers Design 106

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Percona Community

MAY 19, 2024

Learn PostgreSQL and SQL Quickly and Free Want to learn PostgreSQL? What if you could learn PostgreSQL without having to install the database, load data, find sample data, and it was free? PGExamples.com is what you are looking for. First, let me state that I have no connection to the website or its author. I discovered PgExercises.com by accident and was impressed by its quality and completeness.

Website 74

Website Database 74

Percona

MAY 9, 2024

Have you ever read a news story about a major company experiencing a data breach that exposed millions of customer records? These breaches can be devastating, causing significant financial losses, reputational damage, and even legal repercussions.

Best Practices 117

Best Practices Database Systems 117

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Latency 110

Latency Performance Tuning Design 110

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed cons

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

What is Fluent Bit? Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit can serve as a proxy before you send data to Dynatrace or similar. However, you can also use Fluent Bit as a processor because you can perform various actions on the data. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend.

Best Practices 242

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage 242

Speed Curve

MAY 20, 2024

Continuing our series of Performance Heroes, this month we celebrate Estela Franco ! Estela is a passionate web performance and technical SEO specialist with more than ten years of contributing to our community. She loves to talk and share about web performance optimization, technical SEO, JavaScript, and Jamstack whenever she can. By day, you can find Estela working as a web performance specialist for Schneider Electric in Barcelona, Spain.

Performance 66

Performance Google Website Technology 66

Percona

MAY 20, 2024

Valkey 7.2.5 has been officially released as the first General Availability (GA) version, a significant milestone for the project. It is now available in multiple formats: as an official Docker container, through Fedora/EPEL yum repositories, and as binary tarballs for both Ubuntu Bionic and Ubuntu Focal.

Availability 100

Availability Systems Open Source Software 100

InfoQ

MAY 8, 2024

Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how can CPUs and GPUs be utilized?

Tuning 89

Tuning Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering 89

n0derunner

MAY 17, 2024

Using a small python script we can liberate data from the “Analysis” page of prism element and send it to prometheus, where we can combine cluster metrics with other data and view them all on some nice Grafana dashboards. Output Prism Analysis Page Grafana Dashboard Prism Analysis Page Vs Grafana Dashboard method The method we … The post Using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Nutanix Cluster. appeared first on n0derunner.

Monitoring 69

Monitoring Metrics 69

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2024

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) looms large on the horizon, casting its regulatory shadow over financial institutions. DORA is a European Union (EU) regulation that took effect on January 16, 2023, with full implementation starting January 17, 2025. DORA aims to bolster the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies, and investment firms.

Tuning 242

Tuning Strategy Servers Technology 242

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Learn how Uber improved mobile testing reliability, and increased productivity for thousands of engineers, using machine learning to create DragonCrawl, a highly stable and low-maintenance testing system.

Mobile 80

Mobile Testing Engineering Systems 80

Percona

MAY 13, 2024

Table modifications are a routine task for database administrators. The blog post Using Percona Toolkit to Alter Database Tables Online: A Controlled Approach provides insights into the process of altering tables online in a controlled manner, ensuring uninterrupted access for application users and preventing application downtime.

Database 102

Database Processing Software Software 102

InfoQ

APRIL 25, 2024

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app.

Performance 96

Performance Design Scalability Architecture 96

Percona Community

APRIL 30, 2024

ProxySQL is an SQL aware proxy, which gives DBA’s fine grained control over clients’ access to the MySQL cluster. A key part of our DBA team’s process in testing and preparing for major MySQL version upgrades is comparing query plans using ProxySQL query mirroring. This feature allows us to mirror queries to another cluster / host, by configuring query rules.

Testing 68

Testing Performance Processing 68

Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To help our customers confidently navigate the complexities of the cloud and innovate faster and more securely, the Dynatrace platform must be delivered reliably. Service Level Agreements (SLA) bridge your business objectives with our commitment to excellence. To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming

Azure 239

Azure Infrastructure Metrics AWS 239

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Learn how Uber serves over 40 million reads per second from its in-house, distributed database built on top of MySQL using an integrated caching solution: CacheFront.

Cache 81

Cache Storage Database 81

Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage.

Open Source 108

Open Source Cache Efficiency Technology 108

InfoQ

MAY 22, 2024

Suhail Patel discusses the platforms and software patterns that made microservices popular, and how virtual machines and containers have influenced how software is built and run at scale today.

Software 61

Software Software Virtualization Scalability 61

Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

Our newest release continues our theme of making your RUM data even more actionable. In addition to advanced settings, navigation types, and page attributes , we've just released more diagnostic detail for the latest flavor in Core Web Vitals: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This post covers: Element attribution for INP A breakdown of where time is spent within INP, leveraging subparts How to use this information to find and fix INP issues A look ahead at RUM diagnostics at SpeedCurve How quick

Google 66

Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 66

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

AI is top of mind for security teams across every industry. As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. According to McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 report, 40% of respondents said their organizations plan to increase their overall AI investment because of advancements in generative AI.

Artificial Intelligence 228

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 228

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Innovatively scaling its chat channel, Uber’s Customer Obsession Team enhanced global support by transitioning 36% of contact volume to chat, leveraging a new architecture that slashed error rates from 46% to 0.45%, showcasing a significant leap in efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Scalability 73

Scalability Innovation Architecture Efficiency 73

Percona

MAY 20, 2024

If you were to ask me the question, “Would it be possible to set up a replicate filter within the Percona XtraDB Cluster?” my immediate response would be to question you right back. Why would you even want the cluster nodes to have different data when you’re using a synchronous replication cluster?

Software 93

Software Software 93

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.

Design 89

Design Systems Performance Scalability 89

Official Blog - World Web Technology

MAY 14, 2024

Let’s face it, there are a lot of new digital products in the market that just fall flat in today’s standard. A lot of companies are just developing anything today without any regards for its actual usability and design. Thankfully, our team at World Web Technology Pvt. Ltd. is here to help take your UI and UX efforts to the next level. World Web Technology Pvt.

Games 59

Games Technology Technology Design 59

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. Rising consumer expectations for transparency and control over their data, combined with increasing data volumes, contribute to the importance of swift and efficient management of privacy rights requests. “By 2026, fines due to mismanagement of subject rights will have increased tenfold from 2022 to total over $1 billion.” [1] –Gartner

Tuning 224

Tuning Scalability Efficiency Processing 224

Percona Community

MAY 1, 2024

Kubernetes continues evolving, and the complexity of deploying and managing databases within the ecosystem is a topic of considerable discussion and importance these days. This article summarizes a detailed discussion between Piotr Szczepaniak and Diogo Recharte, who offer insights and live demonstrations to simplify database operations on Kubernetes with a new technology for cloud-native applications: Percona Everest.

Database 58

Database Cloud Technology Technology 58

Speed Curve

APRIL 22, 2024

Celebrating performance wins is critical to a healthy, well-supported, high-performing team. This isn't a new idea. In fact, it's something that started in the early days of web performance when Lara Hogan , who was an engineering manager at Etsy at the time, discussed the practice of empowering people across the organization by celebrating 'performance heroes'.

Performance 59

Performance Website Traffic Speed 59

Uber Engineering

MAY 2, 2024

Migrating money data with peace of mind. Learn how Uber moved its Money related data spanning trillion of rows & petabytes in size flawlessly.

Engineering 69

Engineering 69

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

As a technology executive, you’re aware that observability has become an imperative for managing the health of cloud and IT services. You may not be aware of how much untapped value is waiting to be unlocked through the right observability platform. Data with context can improve your ability to deliver on your goals, modernize your organization, and accelerate business transformation.

Technology 189

Technology Technology Analytics Storage 189

Percona Community

APRIL 28, 2024

At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source form, report back on any issues or bugs you might encounter along the way. We constantly update our bug reports and monitor other boards to ensure we have the latest information, but we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep trac

Open Source 58

Open Source Database Monitoring 58