High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon. Availability and Reliability are forms of dependability. Availability The degree to which a product or service is available for use when required. Availability, reliability, and state.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. What is a Distributed System?

Systems 74

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This lets you build your SLOs around the indicators that matter to you and your customers—critical metrics related to availability, failure rates, request response times, or select logs and business events. While the SLO management web UI and API are already available, the dashboard tile will be released within the next weeks.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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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.”. Microservices are an alternative to monolithic systems.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

Availability guarantee of 99.95%/month for customers with an active Enterprise Success and Support subscription. Enhanced uptime measurement Our new SLA is tailored to reflect our current product offering and includes broad coverage of product functionality in the availability definitions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

see “data pipeline” Intro The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. 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. Manually constructed continuous delivery system.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We recently extended the pre-shipped code-level API definitions to group logical parts of our code so they’re consistently highlighted in all code-level views. Another benefit of defining custom APIs is that the memory allocation and surviving object metrics are split by each custom API definition.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions. rpl_semi_sync_master_timeout.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Due to its popularity, the number of workflows managed by the system has grown exponentially. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. With the high growth of workflows in the past few years?—?increasing

Java 208

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This article gives an overview of the system. 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. As of now, we still have several specialized internal systems serving their own use cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. Workflow Definitions Below you can see a typical file structure of a sample workflow package written in SparkSQL. ??? backfill.sch.yaml ??? daily.sch.yaml ???

Best Practices 360

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Feature flag solutions currently use proprietary SDKs with frameworks, definitions, and data/event types that are unique to their platforms. The specification focuses primarily on feature flag evaluation in application code, leaving the definition and management of feature flags up to the feature flag management system.

Java 269

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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. For example, the gaming app has to present definite actions to bring the right experience. An app is built with some expectations and is supposed to provide firm results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

And we definitely couldn’t replay test non-functional requirements like caching and logging user interaction. The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. The Replay Testing framework leverages the @override directive available in GraphQL Federation. How does it work?

Traffic 356

Traffic Latency Cache Metrics 356

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Integration with Red Hat Event-Driven-Ansible will also leverage Red Hat’s flexible rulebook system to map event data, such as problem categories or vulnerability identification, to the correct job template. Context-rich tickets can be created in systems like Jira or ServiceNow for traceability and compliance. Got any more questions?

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Dynatrace

JULY 1, 2020

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. In the next step change, the UTM campaign parameter to also be a user action property by editing the definition as shown on the screenshot below.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

Traffic 282

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 282

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Building effective and reliable systems is only possible with automation, which, in the past, proved difficult due to the following issues: Complexity of systems: The complexity of modern systems makes it difficult to gather all the necessary information to automate decision-making.

Cloud 185

Cloud DevOps Code Open Source 185

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. With observability, you can get a better understanding of how your systems behave and what they do, especially in case of errors. Why should I adopt observability?

Metrics 193

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 193

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. The CSI pod offers a prepared file system, mounted automatically, and includes unzipped agent binaries to every application pod. kubectl label namespaces [your-namespace] monitoring=Dynatrace Note: GKE Autopilot support is available as of Dynatrace Operator 0.12

Google 233

Google Cloud Innovation Infrastructure 233

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They explore platform engineering’s multiple definitions, its pros and cons, and how practitioners can shape this emerging DevOps concept. The job of the platform team is to define how the environments are built and where they run, and to make sure they’re always available in an easy way.”

Games 249

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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. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

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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. Data connectivity across Netflix Studio and availability of Operational Reporting tools also incentivizes studio users to avoid forming data silos.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Observability is the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Comprehensive observability eliminates siloed views of the system and establishes a common means to observe, measure, and act on insights. For example, if you have a 99.9% Want to learn more?

DevOps 230

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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. Let’s take a look at how the new permission system is leveraged within Settings 2.0 As of today, many settings are already available to be referenced in security policies. Policy format.

Availability 193

Availability Metrics Systems Design 193

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). Data is available in real time without requiring indexing by our powerful Dynatrace Query Language. This scenario is a thing of the past.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

Keeping ownership teams and their properties up to date is essential, as is having the right contact information available when needed. Import teams It is necessary to get ownership team information into the system and keep it updated. Dynatrace offers several ways to ingest ownership team information. Contact us to schedule a demo.

Best Practices 212

Best Practices Azure Database Code 212

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. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

The fact is, Reliability and Resiliency must be rooted in the architecture of a distributed system. 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. Ready to learn more?

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure 203

Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

They are generally backward-looking, relying on data stored in accounting and other business systems for a historical perspective. But the company’s point-of-sale system limits daily reports to sales volume, with additional detail available only in monthly reports. We can use a processing rule to add this new field.

Analytics 237

Analytics Retail Storage Monitoring 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As we look at today’s applications, microservices, and DevOps teams, we see leaders are tasked with supporting complex distributed applications using new technologies spread across systems in multiple locations. For most systems, an optimum MTTR could be less than one hour while others have an MTTR of less than one day.

DevOps 214

DevOps Metrics Traffic Efficiency 214

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex, organizations face the challenge of aligning business objectives and end-user experience with the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure. Dealing with an unstable website is stress that users don’t need, and definitely don’t want.

Infrastructure 214

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 214

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Without going further into the reasons for such a need, I wanted to refresh this subject in terms of overhead related to running the command on production systems. A lot has changed since then, but many production systems alive today still run with affected versions. sbtest1 | analyze | status | OK | + -+ + -+ -+ 1 row in set (0.00

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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. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

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