Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Our journey began in 2019 with the introduction of the Dynatrace Citrix monitoring extension. By adopting an outside-in perspective, Citrix admins gain insight into end-user experience and how it correlates with the Citrix system activities that admins are responsible for. Or (less likely) with F5 BigIP load balancer.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in October 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP real user monitoring. Which users, and on which systems? Understand real user experience in your SAP ABAP system—SAP ECC and S/4HANA. Dynatrace news.

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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

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. The growing amount of data processed at the network edge, where failures are more difficult to prevent, magnifies complexity. availability. Make SLOs realistic.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Dynatrace news.

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High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card. There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Tie latency issues to host and virtualization infrastructure network quality. Dynatrace news. It’s the ultimate indicator of whether “Citrix is slow.”.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Smalltalk group is astonishingly insular, almost childlike, but is just now opening up, looking at other systems with open-eyed curiosity and fascination. George Dyson : The next revolution will be the rise of analog systems that can no longer be mastered by digital programming. 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often. Sound easy? Hardware was outdated.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". We achieve 5.5 matthewstoller : I just looked at Netflix’s 10K. The company is burning through cash. $3B 3B this year, $4B next year.

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT. Editor’s note: Sophia was one of the recipients of the Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019.

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Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Our goal is to provide automatic answers including root-cause analysis of performance degradation across all these systems and environments. Feedback or comments?

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 22, 2021

channel surround sound in 2010, Dolby Atmos in 2017 , and adaptive bitrate audio in 2019. By using metadata and decode-side gain to normalize loudness, Netflix leverages xHE-AAC to minimize the total number of gain stages in the end-to-end system, maximizing audio quality. We began streaming 5.1

Programming 275

Programming Mobile Testing Network 275

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We had our first Studio applications consuming the federated graph, without any performance degradation, by the end of the 2019. This gives us access to Netflix’s Java ecosystem, while also giving us the robust language features such as coroutines for efficient parallel fetches, and an expressive type system with null safety.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 233

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 233

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? Who manage s the networking aspects? Cloud-native?

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Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 173

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

In February 2019 we announced a Preview of the OneAgent command-line interface (CLI) solution, which allows for easier post-installation host-group reconfiguration. This parameter tells you which OneAgent version is currently installed on your system. To help you here, we’ve added a new parameter, --version.

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Tuning Virtualization Monitoring Network 185

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Although Kubernetes simplifies application development while increasing resource utilization, it is a complex system that presents its own challenges. It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. Who manages the networking aspects?

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Despite the slow rate of adoption, Java’s six-month release cadence has been trucking along—Java 12 dropped in March 2019, with Java 13 following in September. 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. Or do people just not know about the benefits of 11 in containers?”

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Programming Java Google C++ 144

Tasktop

JUNE 18, 2019

In one week’s time, thousands of IT and business professionals will descend on London for the latest iteration of DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 (June 25-27 – InterContinental O2, London, UK). Here are four tips to get the most out of DOES London 2019: Tip #1 – Develop a plan of attack. The countdown is on.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. PALO ALTO, Calif., Cloud reliability has never been so important,” says Dharshan Rangegowda, Founder and CEO of ScaleGrid.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This simple database management system makes it very easy to store and retrieve pairs of keys and values, and is commonly paired with other database types to increase the speed and performance of an application. “Cloud reliability has never been so important,” says Dharshan Rangegowda, Founder and CEO of ScaleGrid.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Nearly all of the blockers related to systems in which (usually for historical reasons) some application team was solving both authentication and application routing in a custom way. A big part of their work is this idea of harvesting developer intent and automating the necessary touchpoints across our systems.

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Internet Internet Cloud Traffic 227

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019. Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. Each app was then executed on a physical mobile phone equipped with a custom OS and network monitor.

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Systems Traffic Network Google 74

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? Who manage s the networking aspects? Cloud-native?

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Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Photo by Freepik Part of the answer is this: You have a lot of control over the design and code for the pages on your site, plus a decent amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. 11.15% of Chrome users use versions (77 to 120) that were released between 2019 to 2023.

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Hardware Internet Internet Speed 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Back in October of 2019, “Perl 6” was renamed to “Raku”. With the goals of sharing, openness and mentoring, you’re in for some great articles about systems administration topics written by fellow sysadmins. Tune in each day for an article that explores the wide range of topics in system administration. 24 Accessibility (2019).

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 25, 2019

The top-voted primary topic categories correlate well with the results we saw in the 2019 global C++ developer survey open-ended write-in questions for ‘if you could change one thing about C++’ and ‘any other feedback.’ Here’s a 35-page PDF of the full results. The following are some highlights.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The Region will be in the heart of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and we're aiming to have it ready by early 2019. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 119

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Downtime makes headlines: 2015 – 12-hour Apple outage cost the company $25 million 2016 – 5-hour outage caused an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines 2019 – 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million It's easy to see why these stories capture our attention. These are big numbers!

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