Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

With the introduction of Flexible Identity Federation, Dynatrace gives its enterprise customers additional options that offer enhanced granularity to match their more complex scenarios. Scaling with Flexible Identity Federation Identity federation plays a critical role in modern IT infrastructure, serving as a foundational component that enables seamless, secure access to various systems and applications across different domains and platforms.

Strategy 269

Strategy Scalability Infrastructure Systems 269

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

Grasping the concept of Redis sharding is essential for expanding your Redis database. This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. In this article, we will explain Redis sharding, explore its pros and cons, and how to apply it. Key Takeaways Redis sharding is a method of splitting the keyspace into 16384 hash slots for distribution across nodes.

Scalability 130

Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130

InfoQ

APRIL 9, 2024

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.

Architecture 140

Architecture Serverless Mobile Scalability 140

Speed Curve

APRIL 14, 2024

I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. Admittedly, this is not a new topic, but I feel that it's important enough that it warrants another PSA.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Internet 126

Percona

APRIL 9, 2024

Tech Preview release of pg_tde now availableAs organizations collect, store, and analyze vast amounts of data, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity becomes a top priority. For PostgreSQL users, the tech preview release availability of the new encryption extension pg_tde delivers unmatched protection for vital data assets.What is pg_tde?

Open Source 115

Open Source Database Availability Development 115

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? Why is it now subject to the same kind of antitrust complaints faced by Microsoft, once the “evil empire” of the previous generation of computing? Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements

Social Media 110

Social Media Google Internet Internet 110

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2024

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) looms large on the horizon, casting its regulatory shadow over financial institutions. DORA is a European Union (EU) regulation that took effect on January 16, 2023, with full implementation starting January 17, 2025. DORA aims to bolster the IT security of financial entities such as banks, insurance companies, and investment firms.

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Tuning Strategy Servers Technology 257

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Latency 114

Latency Performance Tuning Scalability 114

Gtmetrix

APRIL 5, 2024

We explain what Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is, how it impacts performance, and why GTmetrix doesn’t track it (yet). Overview Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is Google’s new “responsiveness” field metric that was first announced as an experimental metric in 2022.

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Metrics Google Performance 81

Percona

APRIL 16, 2024

Percona is proud to formally state our support for the Valkey project and its community. We will soon offer commercial support for the open source Redis alternative, Valkey.The world of open source is no stranger to controversy.

Open Source 115

Open Source 115

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

By Rufus Rock , UCL ; Tim O’Reilly , UCL ; Ilan Strauss , UCL ; and Mariana Mazzucato , UCL This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed cons

Social Media 90

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 90

Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To help our customers confidently navigate the complexities of the cloud and innovate faster and more securely, the Dynatrace platform must be delivered reliably. Service Level Agreements (SLA) bridge your business objectives with our commitment to excellence. To transparently manage expectations and maintain trust with our customers, we expanded the Dynatrace SLA beyond accessing the user interface to cover the full range of relevant product categories, such as processing and retaining incoming

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Azure Infrastructure Metrics AWS 251

Percona Community

APRIL 18, 2024

Welcome to this blog post! Today, our primary goal is to guide you through deploying Percona Everest on GCP using Kubectl, specifically for users on Windows 11. It’s been some time since I last used Windows, so this will be an excellent opportunity to do it from scratch. Let me tell you a little bit about Percona Everest. You may have already heard it recently.

Open Source 71

Open Source Database 71

InfoQ

APRIL 15, 2024

At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning.

Artificial Intelligence 109

Artificial Intelligence Big Data Data Engineering Latency 109

Gtmetrix

APRIL 5, 2024

We explain the key differences between field and lab data and how you should interpret them. Overview Web performance metrics can be broadly classified into two distinct groups – field data and lab (synthetic data). Each dataset has a different source (i.e., where the data comes from), and is gathered using different methodologies.

Metrics 75

Metrics Performance 75

Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage.

Open Source 114

Open Source Cache Efficiency Technology 114

O'Reilly

APRIL 9, 2024

A recent article in Fast Company makes the claim “ Thanks to AI, the Coder is no longer King. All Hail the QA Engineer.” It’s worth reading, and its argument is probably correct. Generative AI will be used to create more and more software; AI makes mistakes and it’s difficult to foresee a future in which it doesn’t; therefore, if we want software that works, Quality Assurance teams will rise in importance.

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Games Programming Testing Code 78

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

GigaOm recently released its 2024 Radar Report for Cloud Observability, which includes 21 observability solution providers and analyzes each on their current and emerging features. The report offers a better understanding of the observability landscape. The analysis centers on the following key focus areas: Dashboards and reporting User interaction performance monitoring Multicloud functionality Large language model (LLM) support Pushing and tagging data Predictive analysis Edge observability Id

Cloud 249

Cloud Analytics Monitoring Scalability 249

Percona Community

APRIL 30, 2024

ProxySQL is an SQL aware proxy, which gives DBA’s fine grained control over clients’ access to the MySQL cluster. A key part of our DBA team’s process in testing and preparing for major MySQL version upgrades is comparing query plans using ProxySQL query mirroring. This feature allows us to mirror queries to another cluster / host, by configuring query rules.

Testing 68

Testing Performance Processing 68

InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.

Engineering 101

Engineering Performance Scalability Design 101

Addy Osmani

APRIL 7, 2024

Let's talk about Gemini 1.5 Pro and practical examples of what it can do. It's a mid-size multimodal model, optimized to scale across a wide range of tasks involving text, images, videos, audio, and even code. I’ll cover all of these today. The real difference here is the model's long-context window, capable of processing up to a whopping 1 million tokens in production.

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Code Processing 68

Percona

APRIL 11, 2024

JSON_TABLE() will be in PostgreSQL 17! It almost made it two years ago but was yanked away at the last minute. We will get it shortly when PostgreSQL 17 is officially released this year! Please see this.Why is this important?JSON has become the data interchange format of choice for most developers.

Development 110

Development 110

Speed Curve

APRIL 30, 2024

Our newest release continues our theme of making your RUM data even more actionable. In addition to advanced settings, navigation types, and page attributes , we've just released more diagnostic detail for the latest flavor in Core Web Vitals: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This post covers: Element attribution for INP A breakdown of where time is spent within INP, leveraging subparts How to use this information to find and fix INP issues A look ahead at RUM diagnostics at SpeedCurve How quick

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Google Metrics Traffic Mobile 66

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2024

The last decade brought a wave of digital transformation that accelerated the move towards cloud-native tech, specifically Kubernetes. We could talk about this move’s benefits (and downsides!) for more than a few blogs, but that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to talk about the less savory side of cloud-native transformation—you know, all the things that can go wrong.

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Virtualization Cloud Infrastructure Code 241

Percona Community

APRIL 28, 2024

At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source form, report back on any issues or bugs you might encounter along the way. We constantly update our bug reports and monitor other boards to ensure we have the latest information, but we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep trac

Open Source 58

Open Source Database Monitoring 58

InfoQ

APRIL 25, 2024

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app.

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Performance Scalability Design Architecture 98

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 8, 2024

Identifying the WordPress development company in the United States that is the ideal match for your project may be a challenging endeavor due to the vast number of options available. As there is such a wide variety of choices accessible, ranging from independent contractors to well-established organizations, it is essential to make an educated selection that is in accordance with your particular requirements and goals.

Development 59

Development Education Website Open Source 59

Percona

APRIL 30, 2024

There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. PgBouncer is one of the most popular external connection poolers for PostgreSQL. It is thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t have built-in authentication features like LDAP, which is essential for many enterprises.

Development 107

Development 107

Speed Curve

APRIL 22, 2024

Celebrating performance wins is critical to a healthy, well-supported, high-performing team. This isn't a new idea. In fact, it's something that started in the early days of web performance when Lara Hogan , who was an engineering manager at Etsy at the time, discussed the practice of empowering people across the organization by celebrating 'performance heroes'.

Performance 59

Performance Website Traffic Speed 59

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

In trans-Atlantic and global business relationships, the privacy frameworks and regulations in various regions must be aligned to allow efficient collaboration between enterprises and other involved institutions. To enable participating organizations to meet the EU requirements for transferring personal data to the U.S., the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) is designed to serve as an adequate data transfer mechanism under the GDPR.

Government 237

Government Programming Analytics Efficiency 237

Percona Community

APRIL 1, 2024

Percona software releases and updates March 18 - April 2, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

Open Source 58

Open Source Scalability Database Software 58

InfoQ

APRIL 10, 2024

As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.

AWS 76

AWS Architecture Mobile Engineering 76

O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

“The economic problem of society…is a problem of the utilization of knowledge which is not given to anyone in its totality.” —Friedrich A. Hayek, “ The Use of Knowledge in Society ” Silicon Valley venture capitalists and many entrepreneurs espouse libertarian values. In practice, they subscribe to central planning: Rather than competing to win in the marketplace, entrepreneurs compete for funding from the Silicon Valley equivalent of the Central Committee.

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Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 63

Percona

APRIL 23, 2024

Apples or oranges?Tea or coffee?Books or eBooks?Each of these comparisons has very similar features and serves many of the same purposes, but in the end, they are different choices people make. Do you know what else belongs on this list?MariaDB or MySQL?

Software 106

Software Software 106

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Establishing a new online shopping website is not enough to run a business successfully in this world of competitive global landscape. Carving a niche amongst already well-placed companies are a big challenge in itself. Today Search Engine Optimization is a critical part of any online or digital marketing strategy of an e-commerce store ranking improvement.

Social Media 52

Social Media Engineering Media Traffic 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

This blog post is for both novice and seasoned audiences alike. If you’re interested in the relevance and utility of SLOs and how they might be helpful for you, you’ve come to the right place. The first part of this blog post briefly explores the integration of SLO events with AI. The second part delves into the approach to be adopted with SLOs based on a client’s context and environment, considering whether SLAs (Service Level Agreements) have already been historically defined.

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Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics 238

Percona Community

APRIL 29, 2024

Percona software releases and updates April 17 - April 30, 2024. Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability.

Open Source 52

Open Source Scalability Database Software 52