O'Reilly Software

MARCH 1, 2018

This information is curated from the expert microservices material available on our online learning platform. Sam Newman provides a succinct definition of microservices in Building Microservices : “Microservices are small, autonomous services that work together.”. Continue reading Microservices: A quick and simple definition.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Code Systems 80

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

Design 101

Design Education Network Processing 101

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

Design 114

Design Website Efficiency Processing 114

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. The important thing is that this business logic can be built in a separate repository and maintained independently from the workflow definition. workflow ?—?see Example: 0 0 * * MON /home/alice/backup.sh

Storage 207

Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 207

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Definition. Design Validation.

Design 97

Design Best Practices Efficiency Testing 97

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. Performance testing does not essentially display imperfections with an app, yet it needs to ensure that the app function as expected despite the bandwidth availability, network fluctuations, or traffic overload.

Performance Testing 230

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 230

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? In every sample workflow package there are three workflow definition files that work together to provide flexible functionality. Either way they are here to start with, ready to go, if needed. backfill.sch.yaml ???

Best Practices 360

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 360

Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2021

” As in the case of regular SaaS services, software updates happen as soon as possible and are designed to go relatively unnoticed in the background. Therefore, regardless if you are a SaaS or Managed customer, we designed the OneAgent update experience to be smooth and automated following the release of each new version.

Processing 258

Processing Monitoring Performance Availability 258

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2020

Microservice design principles force people to think along a spectrum of loose coupling. Introduces the Dynatrace long-term design pattern for full-stack observability, described below. Extensible admission lets us change the definition of a pod after the pod is authorized but before it’s scheduled to run. Dynatrace news.

Government 170

Government Innovation Strategy Speed 170

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Inspired Design Decisions: Alexey Brodovitch. Before writing Art Direction for the Web , I began to study Alexey Brodovitch when I became fascinated by editorial and magazine design. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. Andrew Clarke.

Design 81

Design Media Website Development 81

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. This design enables us to reuse and share data as much as possible. This article gives an overview of the system.

Processing 273

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 273

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. The Generic network device and the Cisco router extensions are designed to easily extend observability to all the basic and popular devices. Start monitoring in minutes. Begin network monitoring by simply deploying an extension with just a few clicks.

Network 223

Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 223

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

Java 208

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 208

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

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. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. This unique, end-to-end data collection, together with Smartscape ® topology mapping, ensures Grail is fueled with all available data—in context—and ready for manual or AI-driven analytics tasks. This scenario is a thing of the past.

Artificial Intelligence 278

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 278

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. Fact #4: Multi-node, multi-availability zone deployment architecture. Ready to learn more? Rack-aware Cassandra deployments.

AWS 203

AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 203

Percona

APRIL 11, 2023

The unique quiz Consider the following MySQL table definition. These can occur accidentally due to poor database design or through the use of database management tools that automatically create indexes without checking for duplicates. Toward the end, we will identify what the pt-duplicate-key-checker doesn’t.

Database 95

Database Testing Open Source Design 95

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Domain-Driven Design is an approach to designing systems, usually software, that emphasises creating a common language between domain experts and system builders. However, some concepts in DDD do not have a clear definition and are highly implicit. These documents are in the public domain (= available to everybody).

Design 98

Design Strategy Systems Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Instead, the schema gets generated at runtime based on definitions in code. At Netflix we strongly prefer schema-first development because: The schema design is front and center of the developer experience. link] Full documentation for the framework is available on the DGS Framework github repository.

Open Source 246

Open Source Java Architecture Metrics 246

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. This makes it an excellent choice for mission-critical applications that require high availability. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Database 120

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 120

VoltDB

APRIL 2, 2024

Designing applications to cope with concurrency anomalies in their data is very error-prone, time-consuming, and ultimately not worth the performance gains. Many argue that this implies the transaction is on disk as well; most formal definitions aren’t specific. The typical CAP definition says: You can’t have all three.

Education 52

Education C++ Database Design 52

Strategic Tech

JULY 22, 2019

In Domain-Driven Design, a large system is decomposed into bounded contexts , which become natural boundaries in code as microservices and as teams in the organisation. The Bounded Context Design Canvas I designed this canvas based on the typical flow of strategic DDD workshops I run publicly and privately.

Design 76

Design Systems Processing Strategy 76

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This was one of the most demanded features, and with the introduction of security policies, this control mechanism is finally available. As of today, many settings are already available to be referenced in security policies. To find out which settings are available in your environment, check out the Settings/schemas API.

Availability 193

Availability Metrics Systems Design 193

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The way we train juniors, whether it’s at university or in a boot camp or whether they train themselves from the materials we make available to them (Long Live the Internet), we imply from the very beginning that there’s a correct answer. Maybe, but we’re definitely not there yet.

Development 107

Development Code Google Engineering 107

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. the IBD file is “self-describing”; for example, the table schema is available within an IBD file.

Cache 89

Cache Servers Benchmarking Design 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

We also couldn’t compromise on performance and availability.” But “the benefits are definitely worth the effort, provided you do it in a strategic way,” Bollampally said. Such testing is critical to identifying customer shopping patterns that inform decisions about application design and user experience.

Cloud 183

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail 183

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three Rule owners are responsible for making sure the requirements match the rule definition and request context.

Mobile 215

Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 215

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It offers automatic data sharding, master-replica configurations for high availability, and a scalable and flexible architecture to maintain consistent performance. Sharding in Redis involves dividing data across multiple machines to enhance scalability and maintain availability. What is Redis Sharding?

Scalability 130

Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2021

To get a better handle on this, let’s start with some definitions. These can include business metrics, such as conversion rates, uptime, and availability; service metrics, such as application performance; or technical metrics, such as dependencies to third-party services, underlying CPU, and the cost of running a service.

Metrics 204

Metrics Best Practices DevOps Infrastructure 204

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility. How do [developers] make the things that are most likely to break, easily accessible?”

DevOps 171

DevOps Engineering Innovation Best Practices 171

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. How to evaluate APM solutions. The Dynatrace approach: APM and beyond.

Artificial Intelligence 240

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 240

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. Other Dynatrace components, like ActiveGate, are deployed separately.

Cloud 235

Cloud Traffic Monitoring Open Source 235

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

If you still use the legacy version of Log Monitoring ( Log Monitoring v1 ), the Log Monitoring v1 documentation is still available, but we strongly encourage you to switch to the latest Dynatrace Log Monitoring version and gain direct access to the log content of all your mission-critical processes. General Availability (Build 1.239.178).

Azure 228

Azure Metrics AWS Monitoring 228

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. In this scenario, every team has an answer, but no one has the definitive answer. Various job roles such as DBAs, UX designers, and mobile app developers need access to different types of data to carry out their tasks.

Mobile 171

Mobile Monitoring Analytics Google 171

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. The open source load testing tools definitely advanced a lot in both maturity and functionality – but there are many areas where they are behind best commercial tools (and if it matters for a specific user is another subject – for some it may not).

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223