Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, organizations are weighing microservices vs. monolithic architecture to improve software delivery speed and quality. Traditional monolithic architectures are built around the concept of large applications that are self-contained, independent, and incorporate myriad capabilities. What is monolithic architecture?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. Since 2015, the Soldo business spend management platform has provided companies with a simple and efficient way to better spend and control company money. What is security by design?

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture. The cornerstone is a well-designed and painstakingly built messaging system, which allows for smooth communication and data exchange across diverse components.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this blog post, we will see how Dynatrace harnesses the power of observability and analytics to tailor a new experience to easily extend to the left, allowing developers to solve issues faster, build more efficient software, and ultimately improve developer experience!

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. Therefore, it’s critical to weigh the advantages of microservices against its potential issues, other architecture approaches, and your unique business needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. This setup prioritizes data safety, with most replicas online at any given time.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

It is reiterated that the positioning of this SLO includes the selection of strategic factors (entity positioning within the application architecture = ServiceFlow, sufficient traffic in requests per minute, etc). Contact Sales The post Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

How can we achieve a similar functionality when designing our gRPC APIs? Add FieldMask to the Request Message Instead of creating one-off “include” fields, API designers can add field_mask field to the request message: [link] Consumers can set paths for the fields they expect to receive in the response. Field names are not included.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

Service-Oriented Architecture Overview. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

While conventional video codecs remain prevalent, NN-based video encoding tools are flourishing and closing the performance gap in terms of compression efficiency. We employed an adaptive network design that is applicable to the wide variety of resolutions we use for encoding. How do we apply neural networks at scale efficiently?

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

We’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Power architecture (ppc64le).

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility? Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

One of our design principles is to make sure that Dynatrace is as easy to set up and use as possible. In short, over the last several months, we’ve completely rebuilt the architecture of the OneAgent installer for Windows. Dynatrace news. msi-based deployment. These aren’t just empty words.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

As organizations increasingly migrate their applications to the cloud, efficient and scalable load balancing becomes pivotal for ensuring optimal performance and high availability. Load balancing is a critical component in cloud architectures for various reasons. What Is Load Balancing?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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DZone

JUNE 25, 2024

Scalable software architectures are the backbone of efficient and flexible production lines, enabling manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for innovative display technologies. As display manufacturing continues to evolve, the demand for scalable software solutions to support automation has become more critical than ever.

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DZone

JULY 12, 2023

Cloud-native architecture has become a key concept in the software industry, providing an efficient way to develop, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud. As more and more applications are moved to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to design and build them in a way that takes full advantage of cloud computing.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Each has its own role to play in successfully implementing this tactical trifecta at scale.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors. A PUE of 1.0

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DZone

JULY 13, 2021

Experienced engineers used Perl scripts, vi, grep and awk to make log searches more efficient. These historical approaches worked for a different era of software applications: ones more monolithic in design, changing relatively infrequently (once every few weeks or months) and with only a handful of log types to monitor.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

As we did with IBM Power , we’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Z and LinuxONE architecture (s390x). Dynatrace is designed to scale easily across the entire Kubernetes stack.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud. But what does that mean?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. An advanced observability solution can also be used to automate more processes, increasing efficiency and innovation among Ops and Apps teams.

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DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. This dedicated infrastructure layer is designed to cater to service-to-service communication, offering essential features like load balancing, security, monitoring, and resilience.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. It is almost a part of the wider performance engineering portrait, concentrating on performance glitches in the architecture and design of any software.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. AWS 5-pillars. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. Common findings. How to get started.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our Journey so Far Over the past year, we’ve implemented the core infrastructure pieces necessary for a federated GraphQL architecture as described in our previous post: Studio Edge Architecture The first Domain Graph Service (DGS) on the platform was the former GraphQL monolith that we discussed in our first post (Studio API).

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Dynatrace

APRIL 6, 2022

Previously, developers would provision APIs and API gateways in order to configure all the desired lambda function settings making for longer setup times and decreased efficiency. Increased efficiency for Lambda function configurations. Opportunities to optimize your architecture. Lambda Function URLs benefits.

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