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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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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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2024

For example, look for vendors that use a secure development lifecycle process to develop software and have achieved certain security standards. While DORA provides high-level definitions, other regulatory frameworks (such as CIS or DISA-STIG) offer technical specifications used as a basis for technical best practices.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Cloud applications are built with the help of a software supply chain, such as OSS libraries and third-party software. According to recent research , 68% of CISOs say vulnerability management has become more difficult due to increased software supply chain and cloud complexity.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With agent monitoring, third-party software collects data and reports from the component that’s attached to the agent. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Best practices to consider. Cloud monitoring types and how they work.

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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. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. 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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization.

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

Dynatrace Configuration as Code enables complete automation of the Dynatrace platform’s configuration, ensuring that software is secure and reliable. As software development grows more complex, managing components using an automated onboarding process becomes increasingly important.

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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. And the last sentence of the email was what made me want to share this story publicly, as it’s a testimonial to how modern software engineering and operations should make you feel.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Well-Architected Reviews are conducted by AWS customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to evaluate architectures to understand how well applications align with the multiple Well-Architected Framework design principles and best practices. Seamless monitoring of AWS Services running in AWS Cloud and AWS Outposts.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity. Along with real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic testing provides a comprehensive view into the user experience to ensure software meets user requirements. What is synthetic testing?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Using the standard DevOps graphic, good application security should span the complete software development lifecycle. Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities. Modern applications, on average, comprise 70% of open-source software, the rest being custom code.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you’re new to SLOs and want to learn more about them, how they’re used, and best practices, see the additional resources listed at the end of this article. According to the Google Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) handbook, monitoring the four golden signals is crucial in delivering high-performing software solutions.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Given the momentum of DevOps and SRE, digital transformation goals can be achieved when automation enables organizations to apply best practices rapidly and to keep pace with the scale of the organization and applications. Consequently, Service-Level objectives (SLO) are defined to enact countermeasures before the business is impacted.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns. The elasticity of serverless services helps organizations scale as needed.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Another customer is from a multinational software corporation that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Figure 3 provides a management view, but the customer also created dedicated views for operations and SRE teams with additional information, such as key transactions and user details.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. Real-time network performance analysis capabilities, including SSL decryption, enabled precise reconstruction of end user application states through the analysis of network traffic.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Event logging and software tracing help application developers and operations teams understand what’s happening throughout their application flow and system. When it comes to security, logs can capture attack indicators, such as anomalous network traffic or unusual application activity outside of expected times.

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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. But the pressure on CIOs to innovate faster comes at a cost.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic. Error Handling Errors are part of software development. But with this framework, it has to be designed more carefully as bulk data reprocessing will be done in parallel with the production traffic.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Try Now: Get database support for MongoDB With Percona Best Practices for MongoDB Sharding Choose a shard key with high cardinality Having a naive shard scheme (using a shard key with low cardinality or poor data distribution properties) in MongoDB can lead to significant concerns, most notably the creation of jumbo chunks in shards.

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Abstracta

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Learn essential tools and best practices for web stress testing to enhance performance and reliability. The post Web Stress Test Guide: Prepare for High Traffic appeared first on Blog about Software Development, Testing, and AI | Abstracta. Read the guide to optimize your website today!

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to help software developers and operations teams understand what their software is doing and where it’s running into snags. We also defined the metrics and traces for our demo application using OpenTelemetry.

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Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Watch Now : Using Open Source Software to Secure Your MongoDB Database MongoDB Security Features and Best Practices Authentication in MongoDB Most breaches involving MongoDB occur because of a deadly combination of authentication disabled and MongoDB opened to the internet. What does MongoDB offer to mitigate security threats?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Open source databases provide great foundations for high availability — without the pitfalls of vendor lock-in that can come with proprietary software. However, open source software doesn’t typically include built-in HA solutions. This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Overall, adopting this practice promotes a structured and efficient storage strategy, fostering better performance, manageability, and, ultimately, a more robust database environment. Discover how our expert support, services, and enterprise-grade open source database software can make your business run better. Get in touch

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. What is Performance Testing?

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. The software also extends capabilities allowing fine-tuning consumption parameters through QoS (Quality of Service) prefetch limits catered toward balancing load among numerous consumers, thus preventing overwhelming any single consumer entity.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Number of slow queries recorded Select types, sorts, locks, and total questions against a database Command counters and handlers used by queries give an overall traffic summary Along with this, PMM also comes with Query Analytics giving much detailed information about queries getting executed.

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Latency is a key limiting factor on the web: given that most assets fetched by webpages are relatively small (compared to, say, downloading a software update or streaming a movie), we find that most experiences are latency-bound rather than bandwidth-bound. What follows is overall best-practice advice for designing with latency in mind.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis. t need them.

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