DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This ensures that a failing service doesn’t continue receiving traffic until it recovers, preventing further strain and potential cascading failures.

Architecture 264

Architecture Software Engineering Traffic Engineering 264

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. This helps limit the outgoing traffic footprint considerably.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

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. What is RabbitMQ? What is Apache Kafka?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article provides an overview of Azure's load balancing options, encompassing Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door Service, and Azure Traffic Manager. Load balancing is a critical component in cloud architectures for various reasons. What Is Load Balancing?

Azure 287

Azure Scalability Traffic Performance 287

DZone

APRIL 4, 2023

Service meshes are becoming increasingly popular in cloud-native applications as they provide a way to manage network traffic between microservices. It offers several features, including: Prioritized load shedding: Drops traffic that is deemed less important to ensure that the most critical traffic is served.

Traffic 274

Traffic Network Architecture Monitoring 274

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2024

Putting an external cache in front of the database is commonly used to compensate for subpar latency stemming from various factors, such as inefficient database internals, driver usage, infrastructure choices, traffic spikes, and so on. In fact, they can be one of the more problematic components of a distributed application architecture.

Cache 278

Cache Database Latency Traffic 278

DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

AWS 264

AWS Traffic Network Architecture 264

DZone

AUGUST 18, 2023

Service mesh emerged as a response to the growing popularity of cloud-native environments, microservices architecture, and Kubernetes. It has its roots in the three-tiered model of application architecture. Under a heavy load, the application could break if the traffic routing, load balancing, etc., were not optimized.

Traffic 239

Traffic Open Source Architecture Metrics 239

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news.

Java 264

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In this article, we’ll dive deep into the concept of database sharding, a critical technique for scaling databases to handle large volumes of data and high levels of traffic. This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment.

Database 279

Database Systems Scalability Traffic 279

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Architecture Overview The first pivotal step in managing impressions begins with the creation of a Source-of-Truth (SOT) dataset. Impression Source-of-Truth architecture Ensuring High Quality Impressions Maintaining the highest quality of impressions is a top priority.

Tuning 165

Tuning Latency Efficiency Storage 165

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. The email walked through how our Dynatrace self-monitoring notified users of the outage but automatically remediated the problem thanks to our platform’s architecture. And that’s true for Dynatrace as well.

AWS 246

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 246

DZone

MARCH 11, 2024

This article delves deep into the essence of Istio, illustrating its pivotal role in a Kubernetes (KIND) based environment, and guides you through a Helm-based installation process, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of Istio's capabilities and its impact on microservices architecture.

Open Source 264

Open Source Traffic Architecture Monitoring 264

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.

Traffic 257

Traffic Metrics Infrastructure Architecture 257

DZone

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In the dynamic world of microservices architecture, efficient service communication is the linchpin that keeps the system running smoothly. It comprises a suite of capabilities, such as managing traffic, enabling service discovery, enhancing security, ensuring observability, and fortifying resilience.

Traffic 240

Traffic Best Practices Architecture Network 240

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Network traffic growth is the main reason for increasing spending, largely because of the adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. What are the issues with traffic losses and connectivity drops? Without the network, nothing will happen,” Ziemianowicz said.

Network 246

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 246

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

This becomes even more challenging when the application receives heavy traffic, because a single microservice might become overwhelmed if it receives too many requests too quickly. A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer built into an application that controls service-to-service communication in a microservices architecture.

Traffic 279

Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network 279

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

At its heart it uses Istio (for traffic control) and Knative (for event driven tool orchestration) and stores all configuration in Git – following the GitOps approach. Beyond basic metrics: Detecting Architectural Regressions. Use this to detect any architectural regressions introduced through code or config changes.

Architecture 149

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 149

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.

Performance Testing 230

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 230

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. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. How to get started.

AWS 221

AWS Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Lambda 221

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). History of Lisp ( Hacker News). Hacker News).

Java 244

Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

When the SLO status converges to an optimal value of 100%, and there’s substantial traffic (calls/min), BurnRate becomes more relevant for anomaly detection. SLOs must be evaluated at 100%, even when there is currently no traffic. What characterizes a weak SLO? Use the default transformation.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

By deploying applications as many separate microservices managed by Kubernetes, these environments can become complicated, especially if the organization has a multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud architecture, or is using elements of a legacy-cloud environment.

Google 264

Google Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 264

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Finally, adding additional components on the edge to filter and transform syslog messages (for example, Dynatrace OpenTelemetry distribution ) isn’t always possible due to architectural reasons or because it adds unnecessary complexity and cost of ownership when scaling your business.

Infrastructure 278

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. What is always-on infrastructure?

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns. Inconsistent performance.

Cloud 241

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. My web requests are all HTTP 2XX success, so why are my users getting errors? The dashboards are green, so why are users complaining? So, what did they do?

Automotive 290

Automotive Latency Architecture Mobile 290

Dynatrace

JANUARY 28, 2021

With Dynatrace OneAgent you also benefit from support for traffic routing and traffic control. OneAgent implements network zones to create traffic routing rules and limit cross-data-center traffic. Enrich OpenTelemetry instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

Traffic 242

Traffic Open Source Servers Cloud 242

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Today we’re proud to announce the new Dynatrace Operator, designed from the ground up to handle the lifecycle of OneAgent, Kubernetes API monitoring, OneAgent traffic routing, and all future containerized componentry such as the forthcoming extension framework. Dynatrace Operator for OneAgent, API monitoring, routing, and more.

Cloud 246

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

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. While bigger data pools mean more access to potential insights, they come with the challenge of visibility.

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Dynatrace’s AI engine, Davis automatically identified high traffic surges on the county website as the fire took hold. Dynatrace was able to tell the county you have high traffic on your site due to an influx of residents specifically seeking information on the Woolsey Fire. High Traffic Notification.

DevOps 197

DevOps Traffic Website Infrastructure 197

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Istio is one of the most popular service meshes It allows you to manage complex microservice architectures based on configuration—there’s no need to change any application code. Istio manages this with the help of Envoy, a lightweight remote configurable proxy server that can dynamically route traffic through a service mesh.

Traffic 246

Traffic Monitoring Technology Technology 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Consumers expect personalized, proactive, and convenient service, which traditional application architectures often struggle to provide. Best Buy is designing its journey to cut through the noise of its multicloud and multi-tool environments to immediately pinpoint the root causes of issues during peak traffic loads.

Strategy 244

Strategy Retail DevOps Traffic 244

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In many ways, the shift to cloud computing and the adoption of cloud-native architectures have enabled organizations to realize greater resiliency alongside scalability. But in a cloud-native world, resiliency must expand to include the ability for organizations to recover quickly from failures and ensure business continuity.

Infrastructure 290

Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring Software Performance 290

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing performance and architectural issues in their backend system gave them a 99% performance improvement! Singapore event last week, one of my colleagues showed a Dynatrace Service Flow for one of our customers, which consisted of 44 different layers of architecture that a single request had to travel through.

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214