O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray modelwhere business logic lives entirely in promptscreates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale.

Software Engineering 114

Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems 114

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both use the same database back-end and app configuration. The alert comes with the full context of the issue, including errors caused, impacted systems, and level of severity. Step 5 — xMatters Slackbot pulls the on-call database. xMatters Slackbot pulls the on-call database.

Systems 38

Systems Traffic DevOps Database 38

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Real-world context: Determine if vulnerabilities are linked to internet-facing systems or databases to help you prioritize the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk. To filter findings efficiently, use numerical thresholds like DSS (Dynatrace Security Score) or CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System).

Analytics 130

Analytics Internet Internet Infrastructure 130

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here’s a simple rough sketch of RAG: Start with a collection of documents about a domain. Split each document into chunks. Store these chunks in a vector database, indexed by their embedding vectors. The various flavors of RAG borrow from recommender systems practices, such as the use of vector databases and embeddings.

Open Source 127

Open Source Healthcare Entertainment Database 127

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Amazon SQS: The Amazon Simple Queue Service enables users to decouple and scale microservices, serverless applications, and distributed systems, reducing both IT overhead and total complexity.

Serverless 325

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 325

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. We help you configure your MySQL deployment to optimize your performance based on the size of your databases.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

Binary Javascript Object Notation (BSON) is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON documents. To read the content of a BSON document, you have to convert it to a human-readable format like JSON. Through this blog post, you will learn how to convert a BSON document to JSON.

Database 114

Database Programming Open Source Network 114

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements. It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. Testing Failover Behavior.

Testing 55

Testing Network Database Servers 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. According to 2023 statistics, 49% of web applications use an SQL-based database , with SQL having a 75% adoption rate in the IT industry.

Database 130

Database Scalability Best Practices Blockchain 130

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.

Database 139

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 139

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. One change to send syslog to Dynatrace You can now use the syslog ingestion endpoint on Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate for performant network and system monitoring.

Infrastructure 278

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we will explain the Redis transactional property of scripts, what this error is about, and why we must be extra careful about it on Sentinel-managed systems that can failover. The complete information on methods to kill the script execution and related behavior are available in the documentation. Demonstration.

Servers 239

Servers Database Availability Monitoring 239

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

SAP estimates that 80% of all worldwide business transactions touch SAP systems in some form. The SAP Basis team needs a comprehensive picture of infrastructure performance and dependencies that determine their SAP system’s performance. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace? What is ABAP platform monitoring?

Monitoring 218

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 218

Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

Latency 264

Latency Best Practices Metrics Open Source 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Amazon Database Migration Service. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Available Now. Coming Soon.

AWS 279

AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. SAP Basis teams have established best practices for managing their SAP systems.

Java 246

Java Analytics Best Practices Monitoring 246

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. More in the following sub-section.)

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Specifically, how our team uses the relationships and schemas defined within GraphQL to automatically build and maintain a search database. No single service has complete context into how the system works. Each service could potentially implement its own search database, but then we would still need an aggregator.

Database 244

Database Cache Servers Performance 244

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Heck, typing “database migration plan” into Google and reading this blog could constitute planning. In brief, a proper database migration plan includes: Establishing clear objectives: Define what you want to achieve and how open source will get there. Some level of planning is expected when migrating to open source.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Best Practices Strategy 111

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One of the biggest time costs in software development is understanding how a system works. Systems are getting more complex yet our ability to understand them doesn’t seem to be growing at the same rate. As we continuously develop software systems, the complexity slowly increases and we don’t fully realise it.

Architecture 75

Architecture Design Programming Software 75

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column. JSON database in 9.2

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

We had an interesting challenge on our hands: we needed to build the core of our app from scratch, but we also needed data that existed in many different systems. At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. We treat it as an input for our system.

Architecture 346

Architecture Transportation Java Strategy 346

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Identify data use cases and develop a scalable delivery model with documentation. Operations analytics ensures IT systems perform as expected. NoSQL database.

Analytics 246

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

Traffic 283

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 283

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2019

SAP estimates that 80% of all worldwide business transactions touch SAP systems in some form. The SAP Basis team needs a comprehensive picture of infrastructure performance and dependencies that determine their SAP system’s performance. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace? What is ABAP platform monitoring?

Monitoring 203

Monitoring Best Practices Programming Infrastructure 203

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 111

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. On modern Linux systems, the difference in overhead between forking a process and creating a thread is much lesser than it used to be.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 107

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 107

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). documentation. Prometheus Data Source documentation.

Technology 246

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources.

Cache 276

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

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. For more information on this and other examples please visit the Dataflow documentation page." " ) COMMENT "Example dataset brought to you by Dataflow.

Best Practices 361

Best Practices Code Testing Data Engineering 361

Alex Podelko

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Atlas Performance Overview and Monitor Your Cluster documentation. Some good videos on the topic: Solving MongoDB Performance Riddles with Systems Thinking. Impact of Available IOPS On Your Database Performance.

Performance 200

Performance IoT Education Best Practices 200

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2022

As a result, many IT teams are turning to artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) , which integrates AI into operations to automate systems across the development lifecycle. For example, a typical use case involves a web server running an analytics and reporting system. An example of the self-healing web.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Servers Database 246

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2019

July 17, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for PostgreSQL hosting in the cloud. The database is also widely loved for PostgreSQL extensions which enable users to extend the functionality of their database. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 182

Azure AWS Open Source Database 182