Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. Although modern cloud systems simplify tasks, such as deploying apps and provisioning new hardware and servers, hybrid cloud and multicloud environments are often complex.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

They can also develop proactive security measures capable of stopping threats before they breach network defenses. For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

They’ve gone from just maintaining their organization’s hardware and software to becoming an essential function for meeting strategic business objectives. With hybrid and multi-cloud architectures rendering organizations’ environments more complex and distributed, cloud observability has become increasingly important.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. 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. Hardware was outdated.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

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DZone

AUGUST 15, 2019

What Is Network Agility? Network Agility — the volume of change in the network over a period of time — the capability for software and hardware components to automatically configure and control itself in a complex networking ecosystem.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. 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. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This operational data could be gathered from live running infrastructures using software agents, hypervisors, or network logs, for example. Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Someone trying to look at the network through a 4-D lens. While ‘digital transformation’ and ‘cloud migration’ are two concepts with relatively broad definitions, they’re both rooted in the modernization of enterprise networks.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. In December 2021, many organizations were forced to take devices and applications offline to prevent malicious attackers from gaining access to networks and sensitive data. Serverless architecture expands.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. But disparate tools also bring disparate points of view.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

We anticipate massive growth in the popularity of this architecture in the coming quarters, driven additionally by companies’ push for cost reductions. We’re therefore happy to announce the Early Adopter release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the ARM 64-bit AArch64 architecture with OneAgent version 1.191.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! A highly distributed architecture like this has a lot of potential for performance and architectural hotspots.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. Lambda’s highly efficient, on-demand computing environment aligns with today’s microservices-centric architectures, and readily integrates with other popular AWS offerings that an organization may already be using.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

How observability helps IT protect modern environments As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to issues across their multicloud environments. Causes can run the gamut, from coding errors and database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? These alerts tend to slow down development.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. Pony Express, as we saw earlier, is a ground-up implementation of networking primitives. SOSP’19. Emphasis mine). It reminds me of ZeroMQ.

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Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. 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. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Use hardware-based encryption and ensure regular over-the-air updates to maintain device security. Inconsistent network performance affecting data synchronization.

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DZone

APRIL 26, 2022

This has not only led to AI acceleration being incorporated into common chip architectures such as CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs but also mushroomed a class of dedicated hardware AI accelerators specifically designed to accelerate artificial neural networks and machine learning applications.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

We had some fun getting hardware figured out, and I used a 3D printer to make some cases, but the whole project was interrupted by the delivery of the iPhone by Apple in late 2007. Before 2007 mobile phones were extremely locked down by the carriers and manufacturers and they were not openly programmable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains.

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O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

At best, this is a false summit on the right path; at worst, it’s a local maximum far from AGI, which lies along a very different route in a different range of architectures and thinking. DeepMind’s Gato is an AI model that can be taught to carry out many different kinds of tasks based on a single transformer neural network.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

Today, I want to explore the Amazon ECS architecture and what this architecture enables. The pool of resources, at this time, is the CPU, memory, and networking resources of Amazon EC2 instances as partitioned by containers. networks ports, memory, CPU, etc). Let’s talk about what Amazon ECS is actually doing.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. The importance of the network.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. You can even go old school and use non cloud-native architectures. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. In most curriculums, undergrad students do not have much exposure to computer architecture. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

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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. As a consequence, the vast majority of the papers in the past has usually focused on conventional X86 or GPU-accelerated architectures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In all these cases, prior to being delivered through our content delivery network Open Connect , our award-winning TV shows, movies and documentaries like The Crown need to be packaged to enable crucial features for our members. Figure 1?—?Simplified

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

An IDS/IPS monitors network flows and matches incoming packets (or more strictly, Protocol Data Units, PDUs) against a set of rules. Regular expression matching is well studied, but state of the art hardware algorithms don’t reach the performance and memory targets needed for Pigasus. IDS/IPS requirements. Introducing Pigasus.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus internally employs a cellular bulkhead architecture for scalability, so the fleet is composed of multiple cells. Many bulkhead architectures partition their cells on tenants, where a tenant is defined as a team and their collection of applications. We do not take this approach, and instead, we partition our cells to balance load.

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