The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

We looked at a couple of papers that had pre-prints available last week, today we’ll be looking at one of the most anticipated papers of this year’s crop: Amazon’s Firecracker. Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018.

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Virtualization Serverless Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. When designing and running modern, scalable, and distributed applications, Kubernetes seems to be the solution for all your needs.

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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.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

All of this convenient visibility is available with just a few clicks. This helps significantly in automatically answering complex questions such as “ Is the CPU saturation of my F5 device caused by any of the virtual servers running on it? Virtual servers. Start monitoring in minutes. Pool nodes. Interfaces.

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Network Infrastructure Virtualization Metrics 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Citrix is critical infrastructure For businesses operating in industries with strict regulations, such as healthcare, banking, or government, Citrix virtual apps and virtual desktops are essential for simplified infrastructure management, secure application delivery, and compliance requirements. Now, it’s available to all customers.

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Monitoring Healthcare Infrastructure Metrics 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace. Similarly, integrations for Azure and VMware are available to help you monitor your infrastructure both in the cloud and on-premises. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Dynatrace’s ability to ingest metrics from all 95 AWS services will be available within the next 60 days. Those in the left column are readily available now, with those in the right available soon. Available Now. Achieve full observability of all AWS services. Coming Soon. AWS AppSync. AWS CloudHSM. Amazon AppStream 2.0.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time. Design applications to recover from errors gracefully.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. DevOps engineer tools can help ease the pressure as environment complexity grows.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

As the demand for services grows and containerized applications deploy across multicloud environments, organizations need a more flexible, cohesive approach for designing and developing a distributed systems architecture. Experienced developers see microservice design patterns as more platform-agnostic.

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Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Increased availability. Because FaaS is a cloud-native approach, it makes great use of multisite cloud architecture to improve availability and reliability. Consider the challenges of function as a service.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Kubernetes (aka K8s) is an open-source platform used to run and manage containerized applications and services on clusters of physical or virtual machines across on-premises, public, private, and hybrid clouds. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure.

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Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 182

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Logs are immediately available for troubleshooting, security investigations, and auditing, becoming integral to the platform alongside traces and metrics. Dynatrace support for AWS Firehose includes Lambda logs, Amazon virtual private cloud (VPC) flow logs, S3 logs, and CloudWatch.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways).

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Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

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?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

InfoQ

APRIL 7, 2021

Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine.

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Virtualization Google Availability Engineering 57

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Design Testing Education Processing 118

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload. Microsoft currently has eight main types of virtual machines designed for different types of workloads. Azure VM Types and Series.

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Organizations should seek to standardize a single set of tools that everyone will use. This number will likely increase as the SRE discipline matures.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But to understand if your cloud-based applications, as well as environments they run in, are working as designed, you need to see how every single application component communicates and interacts with the others. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Configuration.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 200

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs?

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

For example, the number of threads of your process is already available in Dynatrace in most cases, so there is no need to spend the extra effort. Virtualization can be a key player in your process’ performance, and Dynatrace has built-in integrations to bring metrics about the Cloud Infrastructure into your Dynatrace environment.

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Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 197

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. If you’re running MongoDB on DigitalOcean in production, it’s best practices to deploy using a replica set to ensure high availability and data redundancy for your clusters. DigitalOcean Droplets.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

In a sea of virtualized layers of abstraction, shared services, and dependencies, the cloud has become increasingly complex. Our platform needed a full-stack approach, including virtual network infrastructure, containers, applications, and users. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace LLC.

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Innovation Virtualization Cloud Azure 188

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

Many hospitals adopted telehealth and other virtual technology to deliver care and reduce the spread of disease. AIOps plays a critical role in this app’s availability. We achieved levels of availability we’ve never been able to hit before,” said the chief architect of the healthcare provider.

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Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategy 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But to understand if your cloud-based applications, as well as environments they run in, are working as designed, you need to see how every single application component communicates and interacts with the others. Supporting services include every service that isn’t available with out-of-the-box Dynatrace monitoring. Configuration.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 182

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At Netflix, we periodically reevaluate our workloads to optimize utilization of available capacity. While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. We decided to move one of our Java microservices?—?let’s let’s call it GS2?—?to

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. Since there were no existing solutions available, we needed to build them ourselves. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

O ne of the principles behind the design of Kubernetes is to always look at optimiz ing the utilization of compute resources by the workload. For example, a pod might be stuck in a “Pending” state if it cannot be scheduled to run on any node because there aren’t sufficient resources available. This does not happen magically.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 278

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. But these systems must always be on and highly available. What’s the root cause?

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Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 244

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Consider using lightweight Linux distributions that are specifically designed for hosting containers, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host or CoreOS.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In fact, once containerized, many of these services and the source code itself is virtually invisible in a standalone Kubernetes environment. Wait…isn’t Kubernetes specifically designed to automate tasks associated with deploying clustered services? Foundational root-cause that is the deployment or configuration change responsible.

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Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 223

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

During our virtual wine tasting event, there were three key themes that came to light about how attendees’ businesses had had to change to meet the new way of working. An eCommerce leader in designer menswear. With a shift to focusing on digital channels, availability and performance are key to business success. Dynatrace news.

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Ecommerce Retail Virtualization Innovation 173