The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Watchman: monitoring dependency conflicts for Python library ecosystem Wang et al., The authors backtested Watchman by replaying the evolution history of all libraries on PyPI from the 1st January 2017 to the 30th June 2019. There are more than 1.4M Python libraries in the PyPI repository.

Monitoring 137

Monitoring Java C++ Strategy 137

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Starting with version 1.216, for fresh-installed Dynatrace Managed, the private Synthetic browser monitor screenshots are stored on the Cluster, and not uploaded to the S3 bucket. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x. New features and enhancements. Store browser screenshots on your cluster. Operating systems support. x86 (64bit-only).

Operating System 246

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 246

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I'm also monitoring various chatrooms and metrics, and will jump in when needed. html [The PMCs of EC2]: /blog/2017-05-04/the-pmcs-of-ec2.html . - Getting flame graphs to work in a new environment. Staff ask for help over chat, either to the perfeng chatroom or me directly, or they come visit my desk in F2. It's a good balance.

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

SQL Shack

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the second article in the series of Migrating SQL Server Objects using SSDT 2017. In this article, we will learn how to copy user stored procedures created in the SQL Server master database. Demo Setup For demonstration, I have executed the Ola-hallengren database maintenance script on a master database of Nisarg-PCSQL01.

Database 81

Database Servers Monitoring Performance 81

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. As monitored environments become larger, more dynamic, and more heterogeneous, these misfires will become more common. Even small amounts of technical debt compound as new code branches from old, further embedding the shortcomings into the system. Intellectual debt.

Artificial Intelligence 228

Artificial Intelligence Traffic Efficiency Innovation 228

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 27, 2023

eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. What you actually want is a security monitoring tool that meets a different set of requirements.

Open Source 138

Open Source Monitoring Engineering Design 138

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases. Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017. Notice how no privilege escalation mechanism was used to perform any of these actions.

Media 295

Media Metrics Systems Processing 295

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

PMC analysis (2017). Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019). my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall. I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture].

Java 142

Java Cloud Cache AWS 142

Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Focusing on the fundamentals Grabner recalled a 2017 tweet from Hightower that outlined how his technology career gathered steam once he started to “focus on the fundamentals.” Following are five concepts Hightower shared with Grabner to talk about the challenges that come with ever-advancing technologies and infrastructures.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes. Interested in next steps?

Code 167

Code Infrastructure DevOps Cloud 167

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Usage. This monitors certificate usage to verify that intermediate certificates are not misused. . Why External Synthetic Monitoring is the Right Solution for SSL Certificate Monitoring. This is where an SSL certificate monitoring solution proves to be useful for certificate monitoring. million certificates.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** I shouldn't let this go to my head, as there were 42,000 attendees at re:Invent looking for something to see!)

Tuning 53

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Additionally, it became easy to provide deep links to different monitoring and deployment systems in Edgar due to consistent tagging.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** I shouldn't let this go to my head, as there were 42,000 attendees at re:Invent looking for something to see!)

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring Geoff Graham 2023-08-10T08:00:00+00:00 2023-08-10T12:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear There is no shortage of ways to measure the speed of a webpage. The key word here is “monitoring” performance.

Speed 85

Speed Monitoring Testing Network 85

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

Image taken from the Chrome 60 blog post , which first appeared in “Web Performance: Leveraging the Metrics that Most Affect User Experience” at Google I/O 2017. length ; i ++ ) & # 123 ; // Process entries. // report back for analytics and monitoring. //. & getEntries ( ) ; for ( var i = 0 ; i < perfEntries.

Google 130

Google Analytics Metrics Speed 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

An example console output showing surface cache over budget errors During brainstorming with our platform team, we came across an internal bug report from 2017 that described a similar issue to what we were seeing?—?surfaces As part of any rollout, we have a dashboard of near real-time metrics that we monitor.

Cache 167

Cache Design Testing Development 167

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Waits data is surfaced by many SQL Server performance monitoring solutions, and I've been an advocate of tuning using this methodology since the beginning.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. They help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to the AWS Cloud, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customer's AWS environments.

AWS 164

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I summarized this case study at [Kernel Recipes] in 2017 and have shared the full story here. ## 1. Monitoring I started with the cloud-wide monitoring tool, [Atlas], to check high-level CPU metrics. A microservice team asked me for help with a mysterious issue. I should also be able to identify the real CPU consumer. ## 2.

Cache 141

Cache Cloud Code Java 141

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

These results are pretty on-par with a 2017 survey by the Uptime Institute which found that 65% of enterprise workloads were still running in data centers owned and operated by those enterprises. So, how are PostgreSQL users choosing to host the clusters that power their applications? are using public clouds.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Monitoring widgets on the console are much better now, e.g. for selecting different time periods. Also, you can drill into logs by selecting a time window (dragging a selection) in any monitoring widget. This makes for a very untidy monitoring tab in the Lambda console, but we’ll deal with that for the extra data. But this year?

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Jos

JUNE 17, 2017

Image taken from the Chrome 60 blog post , which first appeared in “Web Performance: Leveraging the Metrics that Most Affect User Experience” at Google I/O 2017 Up until now we have been measuring performance through other metrics, mostly using the Navigation Timing API , which is also what Google Analytics uses for their Site Speed report.

Google 100

Google Analytics Metrics Speed 100

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Written by Jose Fernandez , Arthur Gonigberg , Julia Knecht , and Patrick Thomas In 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every conversation.

Internet 227

Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 227

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 Integration with AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config enables support for monitoring, audit, and configuration management. million requests per second.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Consider these services to meet these needs: MachMetrics : professional site speed monitoring – schedules tests for your URLs from various regions and devices and summarizes the results. SpeedCurve : monitor front-end performance. Mobile is still the top priority.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. To make PostgreSQL work across the enterprise, you have to acquire a multitude of additional components, including tools for high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and observability. Free from vendor lock-in.

Open Source 98

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 98

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If you’re reading this before March 2024 and fire up your favorite performance monitoring tool, you’re going to to get a Core Web Vitals report like this one pulled from PageSpeed Insights: ( Large preview ) You’re likely used to seeing most of these metrics. DebugBear actually tests with a slower network, resulting in more accurate data.

Traffic 114

Traffic Metrics Google Website 114

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

Monitor and Manage the Message Queue : Regularly monitor and manage the message queue to ensure it operates efficiently and effectively. Implement Message Prioritization : Implement message prioritization to ensure that critical messages are processed first. This reduces the risk of delays or errors in processing important tasks.

IoT 130

IoT Ecommerce Games Scalability 130

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. If you aren't monitoring it, how can you measure it? Conclusion.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 27, 2023

eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. What you actually want is a security monitoring tool that meets a different set of requirements.

Open Source 52

Open Source Monitoring Engineering Design 52

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In PostgreSQL, failover can be triggered manually, or it can be automated — with monitoring systems initiating the action. There are multiple tools available for monitoring the health and performance of PostgreSQL instances.

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 98

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Monitoring. The downside to the latter is that, in SQL Server 2017, you cannot run this online… but you will be able to in 2019. It also made for an unintentional staggering of start times for each process, another piece of advice from Mr. Obbish. session_id , r. [ [ status ] , r. scheduler_id , partition_id = o.

Speed 113

Speed Processing Servers Storage 113

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I joined the team in early 2017, and I'm blown away at how quickly the years have flown by. With SpeedCurve Synthetic , you can monitor any other website in the same way that you can monitor your own website. This month, SpeedCurve enters double digits with our tenth birthday. We're officially in our tweens!

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Alex Russell

JUNE 19, 2020

Perhaps there's a better solution, but I've been iterating on content and templates by firing up a linux terminal on my 2017 Pixelbook and starting the built-in 11ty filewatcher and browser sync tools. This monitors the filesystem and fully re-builds every time a file changes.

Cache 55

Cache Hardware Speed Cloud 55

Rigor

MAY 15, 2018

seconds, resulting in an increased YoY conversion rate of 96%: Rigor comparison report of DJS’ performance improvements from November to December 2017 using the customer selected performance metrics. To establish a baseline for DJS, we first had to decide which key pages and mission-critical user flows to monitor. million).

Performance 40

Performance Ecommerce Analytics Metrics 40