Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2024

Managing SNMP devices at scale can be challenging SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) provides a standardized framework for monitoring and managing devices on IP networks. Its simplicity, scalability, and compatibility with a wide range of hardware make it an ideal choice for network management across diverse environments. However, managing and monitoring SNMP across many devices from different vendors in large networks can become cumbersome.

Network 269

Network Monitoring Hardware Infrastructure 269

DZone

JULY 7, 2024

1. Hardware Configuration Recommendations CPU Ensure the BIOS settings are in non-power-saving mode to prevent the CPU from throttling. For servers using Intel CPUs that are not deployed in a multi-instance environment, it is recommended to disable the vm.zone_reclaim_mode parameter. To disable the NUMA parameter: Modify the current system value: echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode Modify or add to the configuration file /etc/sysctl.conf : vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 0 Memory Configure the me

Hardware 257

Hardware Performance Programming Servers 257

Percona

JULY 11, 2024

Warning! Recently, Jean-François Gagné opened a bug on bug.mysql.com #115517; unfortunately, the bug is now private. However, the bug looks quite serious. We at Percona have performed several tests and opened the issue PS-9306 to investigate the problem.

Testing 145

Testing Performance 145

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2024

In the fast-paced world of financial technology (fintech), real-time decisioning has become a cornerstone of innovation and success. Fintech apps are reshaping the financial landscape by offering users unprecedented convenience, speed, and personalization. A recent study found that fintech app users increasingly want them to be more than just for transactions – they also want financial education.

FinTech 94

FinTech Efficiency Education Innovation 94

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Cloud-native technologies are driving the need for organizations to adopt a more sophisticated IT monitoring approach to satisfy the competitive demands of modern business. Business observability is emerging as the answer. The ongoing drive for digital transformation has led to a dramatic shift in the role of IT departments. They’ve gone from just maintaining their organization’s hardware and software to becoming an essential function for meeting strategic business objectives.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Retail Energy Innovation 246

DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today’s digital landscape, APIs have become the backbone of modern software architecture, enabling seamless integration and communication among disparate systems. Effective API management is critical to ensuring that these interfaces are secure, scalable, and maintainable. This article explores the essential best practices for API management, providing insights into design principles, security measures, performance optimization, lifecycle management, documentation strategies, etc.

Best Practices 222

Best Practices Software Architecture Strategy Scalability 222

Percona

JULY 11, 2024

Running a high-performance, reliable PostgreSQL database is crucial for any business and application. However, as workloads grow and database environments become more complex, ensuring optimal database performance can be difficult. This is where PostgreSQL monitoring comes into play.

Monitoring 111

Monitoring Metrics Database Performance 111

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2024

Modern software intelligence needs a new approach. It should be open by design to accelerate innovation, enable powerful integration with other tools, and purposefully unify data and analytics. Enter Grail-powered data and analytics. Grail™ is a purpose-built data lakehouse for observability , security , and AIOps. Grail makes converging real-time, historical, and predictive analytics possible on a single platform.

Analytics 242

Analytics Innovation Availability Design 242

DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, developers, engineers, and architects face unprecedented challenges in managing, processing, and deriving value from vast amounts of data. Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) , a division of Sanmina Corporation, stands at the forefront of addressing these challenges with its innovative hardware and software solutions.

Infrastructure 195

Infrastructure Hardware Innovation Efficiency 195

Percona

JULY 10, 2024

The PostgreSQL Global Development team released the second beta version of PostgreSQL 17 on June 27th, 2024, and it is now available for testing. In this beta version, we can explore the new features that will be released in the official final release of PostgreSQL 17.

Availability 111

Availability Testing Development 111

InfoQ

JULY 9, 2024

Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.

Cloud 92

Cloud Testing Systems Design 92

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Data deletion might seem simple, but it’s critical in data management and privacy laws. It’s not just about hitting the Delete button; it’s about securely meeting compliance requirements while ensuring data integrity. Dynatrace Grail™ is a data lakehouse optimized for high performance, automated data collection and processing, and queries of petabytes of data in real time.

Storage 218

Storage Government Best Practices Media 218

DZone

JULY 11, 2024

Are you ready to start your journey on the road to collecting telemetry data from your applications? Great observability begins with great instrumentation! In this series, you'll explore how to adopt OpenTelemetry (OTel) and how to instrument an application to collect tracing telemetry. You'll learn how to leverage out-of-the-box automatic instrumentation tools and understand when it's necessary to explore more advanced manual instrumentation for your applications.

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Percona

JULY 8, 2024

PostgreSQL major versions are released every year, with each release delivering better performance and new features. With such rapid innovation, it is inevitable that there will be a need to upgrade from one version to another. Upgrade procedures are usually very complex and require thorough planning. With the 2.4.

Innovation 102

Innovation Performance Cloud Software 102

Uber Engineering

JULY 11, 2024

Modernizing the fundamentals of log management at Uber: How we used CLP to build a new logging infra that lets users view and analyze their logs seamlessly, at scale!

Engineering 73

Engineering 73

Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2024

In a galaxy far, far away, there’s a disturbance in the Force. It’s a practice that’s as limiting as the Sith Rule of Two: “Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.” The convention I’m referring to is naming Java classes with a trailing Impl. The dark side of IMPL Imagine you have an interface, InputHandler. The dark side tempts you to name the implementation InputHandlerImpl.

Java 163

Java Software Engineering Engineering Code 163

DZone

JULY 11, 2024

Have you ever faced the challenge of managing large data operations within Salesforce , such as updating, inserting, deleting, or querying records? These operations might arise from one-time data migration projects or ongoing data integration needs with external systems. In such scenarios, Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 is your solution. This robust API is designed to handle large-scale data operations efficiently, simplifying and streamlining the process.

Efficiency 173

Efficiency Design Processing Systems 173

Percona

JULY 10, 2024

Percona Everest is the first open source platform designed for automated database provisioning and management. It supports multiple database technologies and can be hosted on any Kubernetes infrastructure, in the cloud or on-premises.

Open Source 101

Open Source Database Infrastructure Cloud 101

Uber Engineering

JULY 6, 2024

Kafka Tiered Storage, developed in collaboration with the Apache Kafka community, introduces the separation of storage and processing in brokers, significantly improving the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Kafka clusters.

Storage 67

Storage Scalability Efficiency Processing 67

HammerDB

JULY 8, 2024

A frequently asked question with HammerDB is when a user is using the TPROC-C workload to test database failure and failover scenarios, by deliberately killing connections or shutting down the database during a workload and then restarting it. This post provides a guide to configuring HammerDB for such a scenario and considerations to be aware of when doing so.

Database 52

Database Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 52

DZone

JULY 10, 2024

What Is the regreSSHion Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387)? regreSSHion is a newly discovered vulnerability in OpenSSH that affects glibc-based Linux systems. regreSSHion (CVE-2024-6387) may allow arbitrary code execution with root privileges on systems with default configurations. Why Is Everyone Worried About the regreSSHion Vulnerability? Everyone is worried about the regreSSHion vulnerability because OpenSSH is a widely used utility for remote connection to different devices around the world.

Internet 162

Internet Internet Monitoring Code 162

Percona

JULY 8, 2024

As announced in Percona’s Important Update, effective July 1st, the percona/original and tools repositories will no longer be updated. This means that users need to check their systems and ensure that the necessary repositories are enabled to maintain the security and reliability of their installations.

Systems 101

Systems Development Software Software 101

Kovair

JULY 10, 2024

Connected through the whims of technological advancement, software seems to run our lives Connected by the whims of technological development, software seems to be the.

Software 52

Software Software Testing Technology 52

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. However, the user was not aware that the performance could be compared between the 2. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes.

C++ 52

C++ Hardware Benchmarking Virtualization 52

DZone

JULY 10, 2024

Never-ending Slack channels. Hours-long all-hands-on-deck calls. Constant alignment and realignment meetings. And after all that, releases still fail too often! Production readiness doesn’t need to be this painful for developer teams. Metric data scorecards are a simple way to view production readiness all in one report. These scorecards provide a concise overview of the readiness status, offering a snapshot of key metrics that gauge the health of systems and applications – think of a simple das

Metrics 130

Metrics Systems Development 130

Percona

JULY 9, 2024

For a long time, I’ve been thinking about the possibility of importing a single file with multiple connections. Why? Simply because we have scenarios where we end up importing a big file with a single loader thread. Well, I have good news: since the release of 0.16.3-1, we are able to do it.

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Speed 99

Uber Engineering

JULY 11, 2024

SLATE is revolutionizing microservice development by adding robust debugging capabilities to our E2E testing framework. Developers can now seamlessly debug in production or locally with production dependencies, boosting productivity and issue resolution. Dive into the details in our latest blog post!

Testing 40

Testing Development 40

Speed Curve

JULY 8, 2024

A recent analysis of twenty leading websites found a surprising number of page speed optimizations that sites are not taking advantage of – to the detriment of their performance metrics, and more importantly, to the detriment of their users and ultimately their business. I spend a lot of time looking at waterfall charts and web performance audits.

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Speed Cache Benchmarking Metrics 135

Percona

JULY 12, 2024

At Percona Managed Services, we manage Percona MySQL, Community MySQL, and MariaDB. Sometimes, we might need to enable audit logging and share the logs for client MySQL Community 8.0.x servers. There are several ways to enable audit logs. One is to use the MySQL Enterprise audit logging plugin (audit_log.

Servers 101

Servers Software Software 101

Uber Engineering

JULY 11, 2024

Discover how Uber ensures uninterrupted service with Cassandra’s multi-zone configuration, designed to withstand failures in any single zone.

Design 40

Design 40