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Data Observability: Better Insights Through Reliable Data Practices

DZone

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Data Pipelines Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Organizations today rely on data to make decisions, innovate, and stay competitive. That data must be reliable and trustworthy to be useful. Many organizations are adopting a data observability culture that safeguards their data accuracy and health throughout its lifecycle.

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Enhance data management with Grail: Ultimate guide to custom buckets and security policies

Dynatrace

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. We’ve further enhanced its capabilities to meet the high standards of large enterprises by incorporating record-level permission policies.

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How to Clear Cache and Cookies on a Customer’s Device

CSS Wizardry

If you work in customer support for any kind of tech firm, you’re probably all too used to talking people through the intricate, tedious steps of clearing their cache and clearing their cookies. Well, there’s an easier way! Getting Someone to Clear Their Own Cache Trying to talk a non-technical customer through the steps of clearing their own cache is not an easy task—not at all!

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What’s New in Percona Toolkit 3.5.5

Percona

Percona Toolkit 3.5.5 was released on October 3, 2023. This blog post covers the main changes in this release. pt-online-schema-change improvements After nibble hook This was contributed by Marcelo HP Ferreira at [link]. The feature allows you to define a custom plugin that will be triggered after copying each nibble. Here are a few examples of what you can print with this hook: Copy rate Number of rows per nibble Run time per nibble Chunk size when using dynamic chunks You can find an example p

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Real-Time Analytics

DZone

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Data Pipelines Trend Report. For more: Read the Report We live in an era of rapid data generation from countless sources, including sensors, databases, cloud, devices, and more. To keep up, we require real-time analytics (RTA), which provides the immediacy that every user of data today expects and is based on stream processing.

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10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Today’s customer expectations can’t tolerate tightly coupled dependencies, difficulties deploying changes, or long release cycles.

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Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale: Yao Yue at QCon San Francisco

InfoQ

During the second day of QCon San Francisco 2023, Yao Yue, a Founder of IOP Systems, presented on performance engineering. Yue discussed in her session the evolving performance engineering in the modern era. For decades, hardware advancements have kept many performance engineers on the sidelines, but now, in a pivotal moment, their skills are more crucial than ever.

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Choreography Pattern: Optimizing Communication in Distributed Systems

DZone

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices. Successfully coordinating messages among these services is a fundamental aspect of their design.

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OneAgent release notes version 1.275

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate version 1.275. To learn what’s new, have a look at: OneAgent release notes ActiveGate release notes The post OneAgent release notes version 1.275 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine

Randon ASCII

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. However: They didn’t document this (!) Their implementation doesn’t actually save memory The implementation can have a prohibitively high CPU cost This feature works by limiting the working set of a process – the amount of memory mapped into the address-space of the process – to 32 MiB.

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Percona Toolkit – A Quick Introduction to Summary

Percona

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. You can get summaries of your database servers, or you verify replication lag on MySQL and PostgreSQL servers.

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Performance Optimization for Multi-Layered Cloud Native AWS Application

DZone

Cloud-native application development in AWS often requires complex, layered architecture with synchronous and asynchronous interactions between multiple components, e.g., API Gateway, Microservices, Serverless Functions, and system of record integration. Performance engineering requires analysis of the performance and resiliency of each component level and the interactions between these.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.276

Dynatrace

We have released Dynatrace Managed version 1.276. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.276 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2) WaterBear: Building A Free Platform For Impactful Documentaries (Part 2) Adrian Bece 2023-10-02T18:00:00+00:00 2023-10-03T12:04:55+00:00 In my previous article , I talked about Waterbear, a significant project I worked on as a newly-appointed lead developer, and the lessons I learned leading a team for the first time.

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Announcing the Alpha Release of Percona Everest: An Open Source Private DBaaS

Percona

Today’s businesses face two major challenges when it comes to managing databases: vendor lock-in of public cloud providers and the inherent complexity of running and managing databases. With limited freedom of choice and the burden of navigating complex infrastructures, companies often find themselves bound to single cloud providers, restricting their ability to take advantage of the best available tools and services.

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Gossip Protocol in Social Media Networks: Instagram and Beyond

DZone

Gossip protocol is a communication scheme used in distributed systems for efficiently disseminating information among nodes. It is inspired by the way people gossip, where information spreads through a series of casual conversations. This article will discuss the gossip protocol in detail, followed by its potential implementation in social media networks, including Instagram.

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Achieving business resilience with modern observability, AI, and automation

Dynatrace

In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have recognized the need to develop greater business resilience. Companies feel the pressure from myriad macroeconomic factors. Companies are struggling with rising costs, supply chain imbalances and slowdowns. They have also endured a tidal wave of workforce change wrought by remote work , increasing cyberattacks , and rising geopolitical tensions.

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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40 preview release

Percona Community

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40 preview release Hello folks! Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.40 is now available as a preview release. We encourage you to try this PMM preview release in testing environments only, as these packages and images are not fully production-ready. The final version is expected to be released through the standard channels in the coming week.

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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability.

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Unveiling the Secret: Achieving 50K Concurrent User Load Using JMeter With 2.5g RAM Only

DZone

Apache JMeter is an open-source, Java-based tool used for load and performance testing of various services, particularly web applications. It supports multiple protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. JMeter can simulate heavy loads on a server to analyze performance under different conditions. It offers both GUI and non-GUI modes for test configuration and can display test results in various formats.

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Kernel of a good strategy - Why, How and What

Abhishek Tiwari

In the rapidly changing landscape of business, having a well-defined strategy is crucial for success. A good strategy should address the core problems or challenges faced by a business, provide guiding principles on how to tackle them, and be supported by the coherent actions and right resources. In this article, we will explore the core elements of a good strategy.

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Not a Single Trace

DZone

Your team celebrates a success story where a trace identified a pesky latency issue in your application's authentication service. A fix was swiftly implemented, and we all celebrated a quick win in the next team meeting. But the celebrations are short-lived. Just days later, user complaints surged about a related payment gateway timeout. It turns out that the fix we made did improve performance at one point but created a situation in which key information was never cached.

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How to Debug an Unresponsive Elasticsearch Cluster

DZone

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers. Because of this sharding, a read or write request to an Elasticsearch cluster requires coordinating between multiple nodes as there is no “global view”

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Garbage Collection: Unsung Hero

DZone

Garbage Collection is a facet often disregarded and underestimated, yet beneath its surface lies the potential for profound impacts on your organization that reach far beyond the realm of application performance. In this post, we embark on a journey to unravel the pivotal role of Garbage Collection analysis and explore seven critical points that underscore its significance.

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Time-Series Forecasting With Recurrent Neural Networks

DZone

Time-series forecasting is essential in various domains, such as finance, healthcare, and logistics. Traditional statistical methods like ARIMA and exponential smoothing have served us well but have limitations in capturing complex non-linear relationships in data. This is where Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) offer an edge, providing a powerful tool for modeling complex time-dependent phenomena.

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PromCon EU 2023: Observability Recap in Berlin

DZone

As previously mentioned , last week I was on-site at the PromCon EU 2023 event for two days in Berlin, Germany. This is a community-organized event focused on the technology and implementations around the open-source Prometheus project, including, for example, PromQL and PromLens.

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Embedded Linux: Powering Modern Devices

DZone

Embedded systems have existed long before Linux , but the marriage of these two technologies has led to an unprecedented era of device innovation. Today, it is not uncommon to find Linux at the heart of televisions, cars, routers, smart devices, and countless other electronics. But why is Linux, a free and open-source software, becoming so pervasive in the embedded world?

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Unveiling Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS): The Heartbeat of Modern Embedded Systems

DZone

In the realm of operating systems, the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) stands out as a specialized player, tailored for applications where timeliness and determinism are paramount. Whether it's a pacemaker ensuring a steady heart rhythm or an autonomous vehicle braking in an emergency, the responsiveness of an RTOS can be a matter of life and death.

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Observability Pillars: Exploring Logs, Metrics and Traces

DZone

The ability to measure the internal states of a system by examining its outputs is called Observability. A system becomes 'observable' when it is possible to estimate the current state using only information from outputs, namely sensor data. You can use the data from Observability to identify and troubleshoot problems, optimize performance, and improve security.

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Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.0, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.0: Release Roundup October 2, 2023

Percona

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.

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PostgreSQL Job Scheduler: pg_timetable

Percona

In database management, job scheduling has always played an important role. And for PostgreSQL, PgAgent and pg_cron are examples of job schedulers that are already popular. However, there is another job scheduler called pg_timetable, which is completely database-driven and provides a couple of advanced concepts. In this blog, we are going to highlight some of the main features, installation, and some use cases of pg_timetable.