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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic.

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Traffic Website Design Cache

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

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.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy

AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform gives you a complete Infrastructure Monitoring solution for the monitoring of cloud platforms and virtual infrastructure, along with log monitoring and AIOps. Easily diagnose possible security breaches or software malfunctions. Network services visibility (DNS, NTP, ActiveDirectory).

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Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

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. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year. 90% (one nine).

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

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Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

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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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. SLOs improve software quality. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Availability. SLOs aid decision making.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency

Managing PostgreSQL® High Availability – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. Effective management of failover and switchover operations is crucial for high availability.

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market, organizations must not only ensure that their digital infrastructure is functioning optimally but also that software deployments and updates are delivered rapidly and consistently. They help foster confidence and consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

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OneAgent for Linux on IBM Z (General Availability)

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. Release details.

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Availability Hardware Java Tuning

Transparent and confident software delivery with Dynatrace Release Analysis

Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2021

This is the question that drives many of us who work along the software-product lifecycle. Answering this question requires careful management of release risk and analysis of lots of data related to each release version of your software. “To release or not to release?” How is the new version behaving in comparison to previous versions?

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Software Software Strategy Metrics

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. The ability to scale testing as part of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) has proven difficult. Dynatrace news.

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5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. Load generators simulate traffic. Modern software practices are notorious for making code extremely hard to debug. Live snapshot includes variables, process, stack trace, and tracing information.

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Benchmarking Code Open Source Engineering

Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

HAProxy is one of the cornerstones in complex distributed systems, essential for achieving efficient load balancing and high availability. This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments.

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Servers Traffic Open Source Games

Scale up your Dynatrace Managed software-intelligence deployment with self-healing insights

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

As a software intelligence platform, Dynatrace is woven into the fabric of your business systems, actively managing and providing self-healing capabilities for all aspects of your applications and vital infrastructure. Metrics are provided for general host info like CPU usage and memory consumption, OneAgent traffic, and network latency.

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9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now, with the hard work done, you can sit back, relax, and witness the collaboration between your Dev and Ops teams as they deliver better quality software faster. Increased automation means released software that’s more consistent and reliable and more likely to be successful in production. App availability.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring high-quality software is crucial for organizations to thrive. Service level objectives (SLOs) provide a powerful framework for measuring and maintaining software performance, reliability, and user satisfaction. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

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. How does high availability work?

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Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2021

Software reliability and resiliency don’t just happen by simply moving your software to a modern stack, or by moving your workloads to the cloud. The subject line said: “Success Story: Major Issue in single AWS Frankfurt Availability Zone!” Dynatrace news.

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AWS Traffic Architecture Azure

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. Readers who share our privacy concerns, please note, all the data we monitor is publicly available. . Monitoring with ?the

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Website Monitoring Retail Media

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud

OneAgent for Linux on IBM Z now available in Early Adopter Release

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

We’re happy to announce the Early Adopter Release of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux (available with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174). For details on available metrics, see our help page on host performance monitoring. Dynatrace news.

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Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

However, such heterogeneity of interconnected software services can lead to visibility gaps in end-to-end traces, which create blind spots and make it difficult for organizations to keep their software services running and their customers happy. Upgrade OpenTracing instrumentation with high-fidelity data provided by OneAgent.

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Java Traffic Architecture Strategy

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

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. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application.

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Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

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.

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What is a service mesh?

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2021

Kubernetes orchestrates ready-to-run software packages (containers) in pods, which are hosted on nodes (compute instances) that are organized in clusters. 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.

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Traffic DevOps Infrastructure Network

Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

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

Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Keeping pace with modern digital transformation requires ensuring that applications are responsive, resilient, and always available amid increased complexity. Microservices-based architectures and software containers enable organizations to deploy and modify applications with unprecedented speed. availability.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics

Easy SLA and SLO reporting for all your API endpoints with public synthetic HTTP monitors

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic

What is cloud migration?

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Improved performance and availability.

Cloud

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy

Percona Monitoring and Management High Availability – A Proof of Concept

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source projects like VictoriaMetrics, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse. Being software composed of different, multiple technologies can add complexity to a well-known concept: High Availability (HA).

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Availability Monitoring Open Source Traffic

Simplify complex cloud-native environments with AI-driven observability

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

By contextualizing data, OpenPipeline enhances the Dynatrace platform’s ability to offer AI-driven insights, analytics, and automation across observability, security, software lifecycle, and business domains. The capabilities highlighted in this blog post will be available in Dynatrace SaaS environments in the coming weeks.

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Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics

What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. With agent monitoring, third-party software collects data and reports from the component that’s attached to the agent.

Cloud

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure

Get quick alerts and avoid false positives with the new baseline setting

Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2020

While stock market decisions are based on market observation, alerts and decisions in software monitoring are mostly based on learned baselines. Both in stock markets and in software monitoring, the observation period and the point at which decisions are made are crucial. been alerted or not).

Traffic

Traffic Monitoring Efficiency Strategy

It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. But end users kept complaining about slow applications, and despite increasing costs and control over networks, the baseline of end user experience wasn’t available. Technology developments come in waves.

Network

Network Traffic Monitoring Java

Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

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. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic

Traffic AWS Network Cloud

Stream logs to Dynatrace with Amazon Data Firehose to boost your cloud-native journey

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

SREs and DevOps engineers need cloud logs in an integrated observability platform to monitor the whole software development lifecycle. Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. Now, you can set up your Firehose stream.

Cloud

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics

CrowdStrike update crisis: How Dynatrace helped customers recover in hours

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

On July 19th, countless organizations had their operations disrupted by a routine software update from CrowdStrike, a popular cybersecurity software. The company was back to normal business operations as other companies continued to struggle with recovering days after the initial software push. Before a crisis. During a crisis.

Airlines

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic

Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is a feature that gives you the capability to capture more robust IP traffic data that traverses your VPCs. For example, performance degradations, improper functionality, or lack of availability (that is, problems that represent anomalies in baseline system performance). What is VPC Flow Logs.

AWS

AWS Transportation Network Traffic

What is security analytics?

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Vulnerabilities can enter the software development lifecycle (SDLC) at any stage and can have significant impact if left undetected. For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Additionally, with the Dynatrace Query Language, data is available in real time.

Analytics

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware

Maximize user experience with out-of-the-box service-performance SLOs

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions. These signals ( latency, traffic, errors, and saturation ) provide a solid means of proactively monitoring operative systems via SLOs and tracking business success.

Performance

Performance Latency Traffic Metrics

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

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. That is, relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and where it’s running into snags.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

Optimize your marketing campaign investment by leveraging BizDevOps

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2020

From the below screenshot you can see that the traffic picked up not only slightly but quadrupled! Despite the increased traffic, the other KPIs for the campaign didn’t display any increases or benefits to the campaign which wasn’t a great result for the company. Why were the results not as expected?

Traffic

Traffic Analytics DevOps Infrastructure

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing

Trending Sources

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Title Launch Observability at Netflix Scale

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part III: Patroni

Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Managing PostgreSQL® High Availability – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

OneAgent for Linux on IBM Z (General Availability)

Transparent and confident software delivery with Dynatrace Release Analysis

Dynatrace ensures continuous software quality by combining synthetic monitoring and automatic release validation

5 powerful use cases beyond debugging for Dynatrace Live Debugger

Optimizing Server Management With HAProxy’s Advanced Health Checks

Scale up your Dynatrace Managed software-intelligence deployment with self-healing insights

9 key DevOps metrics for success

Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Architected for resiliency: How Dynatrace withstands data center outages

The new normal of digital experience delivery – lessons learned from monitoring mission-critical websites during COVID-19

Kubernetes vs Docker: What’s the difference?

OneAgent for Linux on IBM Z now available in Early Adopter Release

Unlock end-to-end observability insights with Dynatrace PurePath 4 seamless integration of OpenTracing for Java

7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 2, Deploy stage

What is a service mesh?

Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Easy SLA and SLO reporting for all your API endpoints with public synthetic HTTP monitors

What is cloud migration?

Percona Monitoring and Management High Availability – A Proof of Concept

Simplify complex cloud-native environments with AI-driven observability

What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Get quick alerts and avoid false positives with the new baseline setting

It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace adds support for VPC Flow Logs to Kinesis Data Firehose

Stream logs to Dynatrace with Amazon Data Firehose to boost your cloud-native journey

CrowdStrike update crisis: How Dynatrace helped customers recover in hours

Dynatrace adds support for AWS Transit Gateway with VPC Flow Logs

What is security analytics?

Maximize user experience with out-of-the-box service-performance SLOs

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Optimize your marketing campaign investment by leveraging BizDevOps

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