DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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. An RTOS is an operating system designed with a specific purpose in mind: to manage hardware resources and execute tasks within a stringent time frame.

Operating System 147

Operating System Systems Hardware Design 147

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

There’s no other competing software that can provide this level of value with minimum effort and optimal hardware utilization that can scale up to web-scale! We’re continuously investing in performance optimizations, high availability, and resilience for Dynatrace Managed deployments. Support for high memory instances.

Performance 191

Performance Hardware Java Storage 191

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 28, 2024

At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called AI Flame Graphs : a visualization that shows an AI accelerator or GPU hardware profile along with the full software stack, based on my CPU flame graphs. The towers are getting smaller as optimizations are added. Flame graphs have had worldwide adoption.

Programming 130

Programming Hardware Tuning C++ 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2021

Do you keep an eye on the support of distributions and versions of operating systems within your environment? With this information, you can find answers to questions such as: Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? Which operating systems and versions does Dynatrace support? What about ActiveGates?

Operating System 246

Operating System Hardware Technology Technology 246

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system. Modern operating systems provide capabilities to observe and report various metrics about the applications running. Just as the code is monolithic, so is the logging.

Cloud 246

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

Hardware 243

Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

John McCalpin

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Understanding sustained memory bandwidth in these systems starts with assuming 100% utilization and then reviewing the factors that get in the way (e.g., What about single-core performance? This requires a completely different approach to modeling the memory system — one based on Little’s Law from queueing theory.

Latency 71

Latency Hardware Cache Systems 71

DZone

JULY 26, 2022

In QA and software testing world, a compatibility test is a kind of test performed to scrutinize whether the software or app is competent of running on multiple OSs, mobile devices, browsers, applications, network environments, and more. This non-functional testing can be conducted either through automation tools or can be performed manually.

Testing 246

Testing Hardware Mobile Operating System 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, such as the Log4Shell incident in 2021, allow attackers to run malicious code on a remote system without requiring authentication or user interaction.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

There are a lot of potential problems that can prevent the successful deployment of a Kubernetes application, such as: Resource constraints In Kubernetes, managing resources efficiently is crucial to prevent performance bottlenecks and application failures.

Open Source 299

Open Source Hardware DevOps Infrastructure 299

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. What is serverless computing?

Serverless 246

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda enables organizations to access many types of functions from AWS’ cloud-based services, such as: Data processing, to execute code based on triggers, system states, or user actions. Real-time stream processing to perform live activity tracking, data cleansing, metrics generation, and more. Data entering a stream.

Lambda 258

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 258

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

They’ve gone from just maintaining their organization’s hardware and software to becoming an essential function for meeting strategic business objectives. Today, IT services have a direct impact on almost every key business performance indicator, from revenue and conversions to customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Retail Energy Cloud 264

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. A similar analysis can be performed on your GRO.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Cloud 363

DZone

APRIL 26, 2022

An equally important aspect of this AI growth equation is the ever-expanding demands it places on computer system requirements to deliver higher AI performance. What’s more is that this AI performance boost driven by software optimizations is free, requiring almost no code changes or developer time and no additional hardware costs.

Software 130

Software Software Performance Hardware 130

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes running the Linux operating system enable you to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Telemetry data, such as traces and metrics, allow you to analyze the end-to-end performance of your deployed applications.

Availability 279

Availability Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 279

DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2020

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems is studied using eight different metrics: User CPU time, System CPU time, nice CPU time, Idle CPU time, Waiting CPU time, Hardware Interrupt CPU time, Software Interrupt CPU time, Stolen CPU time. User CPU Time and System CPU Time.

Operating System 220

Operating System Hardware Network Systems 220

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 246

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

Ten years ago, the highest-performance CPUs could decode only up to four instructions simultaneously and execute up to eight instructions. RISC-V is often considered a definitive RISC instruction set, as it was carefully designed to avoid past pitfalls, such as reliance on specific hardware characteristics (e.g.,

Efficiency 54

Efficiency Hardware Architecture Design 54

DZone

APRIL 21, 2023

Test tools are software or hardware designed to test a system or application. In addition to automating testing tasks, test tools can produce test data, monitor system performance, and report on test results.

Testing Tools 196

Testing Tools Best Practices Testing Hardware 196

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

However, the key insight here is that these caches are partially shared among the CPUs, which means that perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible. Traditionally it has been the responsibility of the operating system’s task scheduler to mitigate this performance isolation problem. Linux to the rescue?

Cache 258

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

or “How will performance be accurate if the machine is not physical?” When we wanted to add a location, we had to ship hardware and get someone to install that hardware in a rack with power and network. Hardware was outdated. Fixed hardware is a single point of failure – even when we had redundant machines.

Cloud 203

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

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. Host-performance measures.

Availability 43

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

All four players involved in the device were on the call: there was the large European pay TV company (the operator) launching the device, the contractor integrating the set-top-box firmware (the integrator), the system-on-a-chip provider (the chip vendor), and myself (Netflix). In Ninja, this job is performed by an Android Thread.

Engineering 356

Engineering Code Open Source Hardware 356

DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

Scalability 210

Scalability Big Data Hardware Internet 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If your organisation is involved in achieving APRA compliance, you are likely facing the daunting effort of de-risking critical system delivery. Moreover, for banking organisations, there is a good chance some of those systems are outdated. And when a system breaks, AI-enabled platforms like these find the issue in seconds.

Cloud 264

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Open Source 264

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. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Increased collaboration.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

This enables AIOps teams to better predict performance and security issues and improve overall IT operations. Additionally, ITOA gathers and processes information from applications, services, networks, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure hardware logs in real time. Clean data and optimize quality. Define core metrics.

Analytics 246

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 246

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

CPU consumption in Unix/Linux operating systems is studied using eight different metrics: User CPU time , System CPU time , nice CPU time , Idle CPU time , Waiting CPU time , Hardware Interrupt CPU time , Software Interrupt CPU time , Stolen CPU time. In this article let's study ‘Software Interrupt CPU time’.

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Software Software Operating System Hardware 189