DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. In fact, this is really no different than the challenges that are inherit within a single on-premises data center implementation.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DevOps and security teams managing today’s multicloud architectures and cloud-native applications are facing an avalanche of data. Clearly, continuing to depend on siloed systems, disjointed monitoring tools, and manual analytics is no longer sustainable.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2024

When I think about technical debt , I still remember the first application I created that made me realize the consequences of an unsuitable architecture. The client had requested the use of the Lotus Notes platform to build a procurement system for their customers.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

API resilience is about creating systems that can recover gracefully from disruptions, such as network outages or sudden traffic spikes, ensuring they remain reliable and secure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems. However, it often introduces new challenges in the process.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system. Created by Grafana Labs in 2018, Loki has rapidly emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional logging systems, particularly for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments. It is designed for simplicity and cost-efficiency.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s evolving technological landscape, the shift from monolithic architectures to microservices is a strategic move for many businesses. This is particularly relevant in the domain of reimbursement calculation systems. As I mentioned in my previous article Part 1 , let's explore how such a transition can be effectively managed.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cloud-native architectures have brought immense complexity along with increased business agility. But with this complexity comes fragility and lack of transparency into system performance and reliability.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In the past few years, the complexity of systems architectures drastically increased, especially in distributed, microservices-based architectures. In this article, I will describe what observability and monitoring systems, the patterns of a good observability platform, and the observability subsystem may look like.

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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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DZone

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Mainframe architecture refers to the design and structure of a mainframe computer system, which is a powerful and reliable computing platform used for large-scale data processing, transaction processing, and enterprise applications.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment. By the end of this guide, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of database sharding, enabling you to implement it effectively in your systems.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

As an executive, I am always seeking simplicity and efficiency to make sure the architecture of the business is as streamlined as possible. Here is a typical array of tools found in common IT environment architectures of Fortune 500 companies. Moreover, tool sprawl can increase risks for reliability, security, and compliance.

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DZone

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As organizations adopt microservices and containerized architectures, they often realize that they need to rethink their approach to basic operational tasks like security or observability.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In the realm of modern software architecture, middleware plays a pivotal role in connecting various components of distributed systems. Efficient database operations in middleware can dramatically improve overall system performance, reduce latency, and enhance user experience.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. Spring Boot Overview One of the most popular Java EE frameworks for creating apps is Spring.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

Serverless architecture is a way of building and running applications without the need to manage infrastructure. Importance of Resiliency in Serverless Architecture As heavenly as serverless sounds, it isn't immune to failures. You write your code, and the cloud provider handles the rest - provisioning, scaling, and maintenance.

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DZone

AUGUST 13, 2024

To avoid extensive maintenance, we adopted JuiceFS, a distributed file system with high performance. We innovatively use its snapshot feature to implement a primary-replica architecture for ClickHouse. Over more than a year, it has operated without downtime and replication errors, delivering expected performance.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

Building a strong messaging system is critical in the world of distributed systems for seamless communication between multiple components. A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Protect data in multi-tenant architectures To bring you the most value by unifying observability and security in one analytics and automation platform powered by AI, Dynatrace SaaS leverages a multitenancy architecture, enabling efficient and scalable data ingestion, querying, and processing on shared infrastructure.

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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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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article delves into the paradigm shift from traditional to real-time data integration, examines its architectural nuances, and contemplates its profound impact on decision-making and business processes. The new norm is real-time data integration, and it’s transforming the way companies make decisions and conduct their operations.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

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DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

As their story unfolds, and with the relentless additions of new features and modifications to existing ones, this once sleek application has grown into a complex, intertwined system. Fortunately, the concept of Architectural Observability steps in to help.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This article is intended for data scientists, AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and advanced practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence who have a solid grounding in machine learning concepts, natural language processing , and deep learning architectures.

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today, I want to share my experience working with Zabbix, its architecture, its pros, and its cons. My first encounter with this monitoring system was in 2014 when I joined a project where Zabbix was already in use for monitoring network devices (routers, switches). It also allows for some advanced features, such as problem prediction.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

At QCon San Francisco 2024, software architecture is front and center, with two tracks dedicated to exploring some of the largest and most complex architectures today. Join senior software practitioners as they provide inspiration and practical lessons for architects seeking to tackle issues at a massive scale. By Artenisa Chatziou

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DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In the world of distributed systems, the likelihood of components failing or becoming unresponsive is higher compared to monolithic systems. Therefore, resilience — the ability of a system to handle and recover from failures — becomes critically important in distributed environments.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

Having a diverse payment system is crucial to avoid vendor lock-in, to leverage local payment methods, and to maintain control over costs. When you are preparing your application for release, an efficient initial strategy is to integrate a single payment service.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

System resilience stands as the key requirement for e-commerce platforms during scaling operations to keep services operational and deliver performance excellence to users. We have developed a microservices architecture platform that encounters sporadic system failures when faced with heavy traffic events.

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DZone

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) pattern is a widely-used software architecture paradigm, particularly relevant in the design of distributed, messaging-driven systems. The communication framework is decoupled, scalable, and dynamic, making it useful for addressing complex software requirements in modern application development.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Federal Reserve Regulation HH in the United States focuses on operational resilience requirements for systemically important financial market utilities. Proactive systems like Dynatrace’s Davis AI can automate responses to threats, swiftly implementing remediation while keeping executives informed of actions taken and their impact.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In a single view, developers get an instant overview of application performance, system health, logs, problems, deployment status, user interactions, and much more. Additionally, Dynatrace integrates relevant trace data, providing full visibility into complex, microservices-based architectures.

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