Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. Take your time to prepare hardware, network and other infrastructure adjustments so you are ready.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. We needed a system that could manage hundreds to one-day thousands of workstations.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Organizations can offload much of the burden of managing app infrastructure and transition many functions to the cloud by going serverless with the help of Lambda. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. How does AWS Lambda work? Optimizing Lambda for performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. This is essential for operators to understand the health and behavior of the container infrastructure as well as the applications running in it.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. Oracle infrastructure does not offer strong compatibility with open source RDBMS. Compare Ease of Use.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions.

Availability 34

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 34

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. What is a message queue?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Failures are a given and everything will eventually fail over time: from routers to hard disks, from operating systems to memory units corrupting TCP packets, from transient errors to permanent failures. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Primitives not frameworks.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

This tradeoff is unacceptable to public infrastructure providers, who need both strong security and minimal overhead. The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks).

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. This is one of the key teams that people have been talking about recently.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

This ensures each Redis instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency. These feedback loops allow you to develop more accurate assessments when deploying new versions or updates related to Redis infrastructure.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. Concurrency refers to the system’s ability to carry out multiple tasks in parallel and manage the access and usage of shared resources. Monitoring a Distributed System. Heterogeneity. Fault Tolerance.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This ensures each Redis® instance optimally uses the in-memory data store and aligns with the operating system’s efficiency. These feedback loops allow you to develop more accurate assessments when deploying new versions or updates related to Redis® infrastructure.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Developing standalone applications that fulfill those requirements would be prohibitively expensive, as it would require specialized knowledge of distributed systems, operating systems, and networks, requiring large development and testing efforts to cover the complexity that distributed applications present.

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. Application performance monitoring is used in a variety of ways, including: Infrastructure planning.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. They’re free to plan their upgrades or operational maintenance without involving any third-party businesses. As the requirement is low, you’ll need not more than a few systems and devices.

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Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps is not a single system, rather it is a combination of many processes – testing, deployment, production, etc – thus, it’s better termed as a ‘distributed infrastructure’. Cloud-based solutions are extremely cheap when compared to building and maintaining a DevOps infrastructure on-premise. Cost-Saver.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Device Infrastructure. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. The obvious takeaway of embracing automation testing for mobile apps is that you simultaneously test a wide range of devices, operating systems, and network types. Automated Testing. CI/CD Integration.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

A cloud-based test automation tool is a cloud environment that comes equipped with an infrastructure that supports the testing of various apps or software. It’s not just about speeding up the deployment, the cloud-based testing tool cuts down on operational overhead costs like in-house infrastructure, maintenance of data, etc.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Apart from this, using Testsigma, users can run their automated tests on hundreds of combinations of browsers and operating systems and over 2,000 iOS and Android devices on the cloud.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future. The paper focuses on two key use cases: A confined component running in its own security domain, connected to the rest of the system by explicit (e.g. .

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J. Paul Reed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Developers work with tools that tend to be deterministic: compilers, linkers, operating systems are complex beasts, certainly, but we think of them as more or less deterministic: if we give them the same inputs, we generally expect the same outputs. It’s just an operating system or networking bug.

Entertainment 40

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications.

Latency 53

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 53

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A learning organization, disaster recovery testing, game days, and chaos engineering tools are all important components of a continuously resilient system. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. that are used across multiple applications.

Latency 52

Latency Systems Engineering Hardware 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The operating system signals completion when the I/O stack finishes the request. Linux provides different system calls (syscall)/commands for asynchronous behavior. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You can explore your system using the df and lsblk commands.

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