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 is difficult to fault their argument – as it’s absolutely true that: Each client having its own process prevents a poorly behaving client from crashing the entire database.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

By batching and parallelizing the requests to retrieve many creatives via a single query to the GraphQL server, we can optimize the index building process. Once all documents have been indexed with no errors, we swap the alias from the currently active index to the newly built index. The graph has two requirements.

Database 248

Database Cache Servers Performance 248

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Track changes via our change management process. The full list of secure development controls, along with many more details, are documented at Dynatrace secure development controls. These certificates are stored on physical devices which are plugged into specifically hardened build servers. Ensure manual penetration testing.

Software 246

Software Software Development AWS 246

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 22, 2019

Baking Windows with Packer By Justin Phelps and Manuel Correa Customizing Windows images at Netflix was a manual, error-prone, and time consuming process. We looked at our process for creating a Windows AMI and discovered it was error-prone and full of toil. Last year, we decided to improve the AMI baking process.

DevOps 211

DevOps AWS Tuning Infrastructure 211

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation . Dynatrace Kubernetes documentation . Dynatrace OneAgent documentation . OneAgent and its Operator .

Analytics 253

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 253

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It allows users to choose between different counting modes, such as Best-Effort or Eventually Consistent , while considering the documented trade-offs of each option. Introducing sufficient jitter to the flush process can further reduce contention. This process can also be used to track the provenance of increments.

Latency 253

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 253

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

When visiting or relocating to another country, you must go through the local Visa process, which is often done through an online portal ahead of your trip. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load. Dynatrace news.

Java 233

Java Traffic Government Code 233

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Multiple Prometheus servers might be required, creating significant maintenance efforts. Alternatively, if you’re already using a Prometheus Server to gather data from your distributed systems, you can now seamlessly make this data work for you in Dynatrace as well—use your Prometheus server as the endpoint for scraping metrics.

Technology 229

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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. Let’s explore each of these elements and what organizations can do to avoid them.

Software 260

Software Software Infrastructure Network 260

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Consolidate real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, session replay, observability, and business process analytics tools into a unified platform. Real-time customer experience remediation identifies and informs the organization about any issues and prevents them in the experience process sooner.

Analytics 223

Analytics Logistics IoT Mobile 223

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

With its ability to handle SSL offloading, distribute traffic across multiple servers, and provide security features like DDoS protection, application firewall, and SSL VPN, organizations of all sizes rely on F5 BIG-IP LTM to improve application performance, availability, and security. Example F5 overview dashboard.

Traffic 207

Traffic Virtualization Metrics Monitoring 207

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

This includes digging through each monitored data source and adding tags to the sensitive data points; this process is usually expensive, exhausting, error-prone, and unscalable. Read more about these options in Log Monitoring documentation. See the process-group settings example in the screengrab below.

Government 221

Government Storage Tuning Monitoring 221

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2022

“As code” means simplifying complex and time-consuming tasks by automating some, or all, of their processes. As a result, IT teams often end up performing time-consuming, manual processes. Minimize overall documentation. Because configuration files form a single source of truth, they require minimal documentation.

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Best Practices Infrastructure Code Speed 222

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now? which was released as Percona Server for MongoDB RC 7.0.2-1.

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Servers Availability Database Open Source 107

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. In such scenarios, PITR acts as an indispensable recovery mechanism.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

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Google Cloud Design Programming 216

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Redis is an in-memory key-value store and cache that simplifies processing, storage, and interaction with data in Kubernetes environments.

Open Source 351

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 351

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Log Monitoring documentation. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.239, we have restructured and enhanced our Log Monitoring documentation to better focus on concepts and information that you, the user, look for and need. Legacy Log Monitoring v1 Documentation. This will happen with Dynatrace version 1.242 or later. Log Monitoring.

Azure 228

Azure Metrics AWS Monitoring 228

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

With PowerConnect, collecting data from SAP systems and fueling the Dynatrace platform, Dynatrace automatically uncovers the topology model of the SAP landscape, providing a clear and comprehensive view of the relationships and dependencies among different systems, servers, databases, applications, and interfaces.

Java 202

Java Analytics Best Practices Monitoring 202

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

Traffic 287

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 287

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2019

As of today, the SAP ABAP application server remains the central component of the SAP ERP solution. The ABAP platform monitoring solution is based on the remote monitoring approach and so relies on a Dynatrace ActiveGate extension: No agent installation on SAP servers is required. SAP technology and process awareness.

Monitoring 161

Monitoring Best Practices Programming Infrastructure 161

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Walker, a Lockheed Martin Fellow, and William Swofford, a full-stack engineer at Lockheed Martin, discuss how to create a self-diagnosing and self-healing IT server environment using this AIOps combination for auto-baselining, auto-remediation, monitoring as code, and more. An example of the self-healing web.

Artificial Intelligence 199

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Servers Database 199

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

As of today, the SAP ABAP application server remains the central component of the SAP ERP solution. The ABAP platform monitoring solution is based on the remote monitoring approach and so relies on a Dynatrace ActiveGate extension: No agent installation on SAP servers is required. SAP technology and process awareness.

Monitoring 156

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 156

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In this case, the server appears to be continuously building responses, which is an expensive operation that indicates either we have a bug in the revision calculation of our message handler, or the list of ActiveGates is constantly changing, forcing frequent revision recalculation. The handler is responsible for ~3.5

Java 221

Java Metrics Servers Code 221

Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

Servers 95

Servers Monitoring Cache Network 95

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since December 10, days after a critical vulnerability known as Log4Shell was discovered in servers supporting the game Minecraft, millions of exploit attempts have been made of the Log4j 2 Java library, according to one team tracking the impact, with potential threat to millions more applications and devices across the globe. Dynatrace news.

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Internet Internet Games Java 263

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

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Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 119

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 19, 2024

None of the target URL’s subresources are fetched, and no processing of the response is done. prefetch is much more light-touch than… prerender : This will fetch the target URL and its subresources, as well as parse and render the resulting page, and process timers, scripts, etc. prerender is much more intensive.

Cache 225

Cache Network Strategy Analytics 225

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

While Google’s SRE Handbook mostly focuses on the production use case for SLIs/SLOs, Keptn is “Shifting-Left” this approach and using SLIs/SLOs to enforce Quality Gates as part of your progressive delivery process. This will enable deep monitoring of those Java,NET, Node, processes as well as your web servers.

Engineering 200

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 200

Scalegrid

JANUARY 30, 2019

The value of SBM, as explained in the MySQL documentation , depends on the state of the MySQL slave in general, and the states of MySQL slave SQL_THREAD and IO_THREAD in particular. SBM will also be NULL if the IO Thread is stopped, provided the SQL Thread has already processed all events from the relay log. Slave_IO_Running: No.

Speed 197

Speed Azure Network Monitoring 197

Dynatrace

MAY 12, 2022

Remediation tracking now enables you to view the risk assessment for the process groups affected by a vulnerability. Enhanced API documentation for the latest OneAngent endpoint of the Deployment API. (APM-365055). Fixed an issue with “500 Internal Server Error” response of Anomaly detection – Disk events API. (APM-370270).

Tuning 205

Tuning Metrics Cloud Mobile 205

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

Since we index the data as-is from the federated graph, the indexing query itself acts as self-documentation. Behind the scenes during the indexing process, we have configured the Elasticsearch index with the appropriate analyzers to ensure that the most relevant matches for the input text are returned in the results.

Engineering 194

Engineering Availability Architecture Tuning 194

DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Although it did not lead to performance degradation in other running processes or applications, it did cause my notebook with 40GB of RAM to become very hot and use excessive electricity. Since the virtual memory processes used to enable WSL are protected and cannot be killed or restarted, the only recourse is a good old Windows reboot.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Servers Processing 162

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Once that happens a GC process deletes the pod. When this happens, usually a k8s cloud-controller provided by the cloud vendor will detect that the actual server, in our case an EC2 Instance, has actually gone away, and will in turn delete the k8s node object. No need to wait for any GC process. Where Do Orphaned Pods Come From?

Hardware 239

Hardware Cloud Servers Code 239

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

For example, a cluster utilization of 50% should allow you to roughly double the currently processed load before the cluster reaches its maximum capacity. trace processing?provides User actions processed per minute shows you the trend of user actions that are successfully processed, correlated with server-side?

Monitoring 208

Monitoring Metrics Analytics Processing 208

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This document details the intriguing process of debugging this issue, all the way from the UI down to the Linux kernel. Restarting the ipykernel process, which runs the Notebook, might temporarily alleviate the problem, but the frustration persists as more notebooks are run. the JupyterLab process) rather than the network.

Latency 217

Latency Virtualization Traffic Processing 217

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Let’s walk through the steps involved in installing and configuring the Prometheus server to store and display the metrics, an exporter (MySQL Exporter in this case) to collect the metrics and relay them to the Prometheus server, and Grafana to create dashboards. Prometheus requires an exporter for collecting MySQL server metrics.

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Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164