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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

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 also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS. Cache line is a concept similar to memory page?—? Thread 0’s cache in this example.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase. Java Virtual Machine (JVM)-based languages are predominant.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

Virtual Assembly Figure 3 describes how a virtual assembly of the encoded chunks replaces the physical assembly used in our previous architecture. It downloads the part(s) that contain the referenced, uploaded bytes and keeps them in an LRU active cache. For write operations, those challenges do not apply. We’re hiring!

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End-to-end request monitoring for popular Python frameworks with OneAgent SDK

Dynatrace

Create a virtual environment, and setup settings_secret.py (This is specific to this project, instructions in the README.md). To use the SDK, there are a few steps that you need to follow: Import the SDK. Instrument key portions of your application. Web Requests entry points. Database calls. Messaging calls. Outgoing Web Requests.

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Optimising for High Latency Environments

CSS Wizardry

Interestingly, 304 responses are still a form of redirect: the server is redirecting your visitor back to their HTTP cache. Ensure you aren’t wastefully revalidating still-fresh resources : These files were revalidated for a repeat page view as they all carried Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate.

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Redis Cloud Gets Easier with Fully Managed Hosting on Azure

Scalegrid

The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions. Redis, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

A vast majority of the features are the same, outside of these advanced features available through the BYOC model: Virtual Private Clouds / Virtual Networks. Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and Azure Virtual Networks (VNET) are private, isolated sections of the cloud infrastructure where you can launch resources.

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