Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management.

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IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 223

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

Analytics 222

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 222

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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Media Traffic Processing Design 241

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

Traffic 227

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 227

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain.

Big Data 256

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 256

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. More in the following sub-section.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” The problem started at 1:24PM PDT, with the services starting to become available again about 3 hours later. This number was so low because the automatic traffic redirect was so fast it kept the impact so low.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA). As you can see, stats are available via the port 8404. Failover The failover will be handled by the HAProxy automatically when it detects that the current primary is no longer available.

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Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic 105

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Patroni for PostgreSQL.

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Availability Servers Network Testing 277

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

To do this, we devised a novel way to simulate the projected traffic weeks ahead of launch by building upon the traffic migration framework described here. New content or national events may drive brief spikes, but, by and large, traffic is usually smoothly increasing or decreasing.

Traffic 347

Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing 347

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

Java 208

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 208

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

Database 217

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 217

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

Architecture 101

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 101

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Testing Strategies: A Summary Two key factors determined our testing strategies: Functional vs. non-functional requirements Idempotency If we were testing functional requirements like data accuracy, and if the request was idempotent , we relied on Replay Testing. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

Traffic 356

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 356

Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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Processing Metrics Monitoring Java 200

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. No locks on tables are ever acquired, which prevent impacting write traffic on the source database. Writing events to any output.

Database 203

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 203

Dynatrace

MARCH 16, 2022

Over the last year, Dynatrace extended its AI-powered log monitoring capabilities by providing support for all log data sources. We added monitoring and analytics for log streams from Kubernetes and multicloud platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure, as well as the most widely used open-source log data frameworks. Duration: 163.41

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Metrics Lambda Infrastructure Monitoring 226

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

Metrics 182

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 182

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 198

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. What are the key advantages of DBMS?

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the staging environment closely mirrors the production environment, achieving a complete replication of all potential scenarios, such as simulating extremely high traffic volumes to assess software performance, remains challenging. This can lead to a lack of insight into how the code will behave when exposed to heavy traffic.

Traffic 270

Traffic Best Practices Strategy Engineering 270

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

Java 197

Java Analytics Infrastructure Cloud 197

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

The F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is an application delivery controller (ADC) that ensures the availability, security, and optimal performance of network traffic flows. Business-critical applications typically rely on F5 for availability and success. It serves as a crucial component between applications and users.

Traffic 207

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 207

VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

quintillion bytes of data are generated each day, enterprises have more data under their control than ever before. Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. What are the benefits of a real-time data platform? In a world where 2.5

IoT 52

IoT Latency Traffic Logistics 52

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

Availability 83

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 83

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

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. Let’s assume we created a service-availability SLO, monitoring the request failure count against the overall request counts. What characterizes a weak SLO?

Efficiency 237

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 237

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

The key to success is making data in this complex ecosystem actionable, as many types of syslog producers exist. The ultimate challenge lies in making data from syslog-supported log sources actionable. ActiveGate also optimizes traffic volume in your network and serves as a secure relay layer in protected networks and DMZs.

Infrastructure 231

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 231

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

Worse, a malicious attacker may gain access to the network, compromising sensitive application data. According to 2022 data, 78% of companies plan to increase spending on network visibility tools over the next two years, according to Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates.

Network 227

Network Monitoring Performance Traffic 227

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

This can result in a complete system takeover, malware installation, data manipulation, and the creation of backdoors for persistent access. Analyze network flow logs Last but not least, your network logs are the ultimate source of data. To understand who is targeting you, a similar query can be used.

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AWS Network Traffic Servers 217

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Large enterprise environments are often distributed across multiple data centers around the world. Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. optimizing traffic routing. preventing unrelated traffic between data centers and regions.

Network 172

Network Traffic Infrastructure Tuning 172

Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

In my last blog , I’ve provided an example of this happening, whereby the traffic spiked and quadrupled the usual incoming traffic. These are all interesting metrics from marketing point of view, and also highly interesting to you as they allow you to engage with the teams that are driving the traffic against your IT-system.

Traffic 264

Traffic Analytics Metrics Servers 264

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Maintaining reliable uptime and consistent service quality has become more complex as organizations expand their computing footprints across multiple data centers and in the cloud.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 233