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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

DZone

AUGUST 7, 2023

Linux is a popular open-source operating system that offers various distributions to suit every need. While some distributions are aimed at experienced Linux users, there are distributions that cater to the needs of beginners or users with older hardware.

Hardware 245

Hardware Open Source Operating System Efficiency 245

DZone

JULY 7, 2024

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.

Hardware 258

Hardware Performance Programming Servers 258

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. Programs that exist in the file system. The towers are getting smaller as optimizations are added.

Programming 130

Programming Hardware Tuning C++ 130

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

Efficiency 75

Efficiency Hardware Architecture Design 75

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

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It was on August 25 th at 14:00 when Davis initially alerted on a disk write latency issues to Elastic File System (EFS) on one of our EC2 instances in AWS’s Sydney Data Center. The AWS team confirmed a known hardware issue affecting a certain amount of EC2 machines in that region. Sydney, we have a disk write latency problem!

Infrastructure 259

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 259

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

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., This requires a completely different approach to modeling the memory system — one based on Little’s Law from queueing theory. The same is true for software prefetches.)

Latency 71

Latency Hardware Cache Systems 71

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware. Process portability.

Serverless 297

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 297

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

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

Serverless Efficiency Lambda AWS 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

DZone

JULY 26, 2022

In nutshell, Compatibility Test is a kind of Software test to confirm whether your software is competent enough of running on various Mobile devices, operating systems, hardware, applications, or network environments

Testing 246

Testing Hardware Mobile Operating System 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

All Things Distributed

JULY 4, 2019

This week, the developers of Amazon Aurora have won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award.

Systems 120

Systems Development Hardware Database 120

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.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

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. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. 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

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. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests.

Lambda 258

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 258

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

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. Keep hardware and browsers updated at all times. Sound easy?

Cloud 203

Cloud Hardware Testing Logistics 203

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’.

Software 189

Software Software Operating System Hardware 189

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

Vulnerabilities or hardware failures can disrupt deployments and compromise application security. For instance, if a Kubernetes cluster experiences a hardware failure during deployment, it can lead to service disruptions and affect the user experience.

Open Source 299

Open Source Hardware DevOps Infrastructure 299

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. In today’s digital-first world, data resides across dozens of different IT systems, from critical business applications to the modern cloud platforms that underpin them.

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Retail Energy Cloud 264

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But what is the metric that shows service hardware monopolization by a group of users? Quality metrics contain: The ratio of successfully processed requests. Distribution of processing time between requests. Number of requests dependent curves. This metric absence reduces the quality and user satisfaction of the service.

Network 246

Network Hardware Metrics Processing 246

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. Various test tools are available for different types of testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and more.

Testing Tools 196

Testing Tools Best Practices Testing Hardware 196

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

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.

Availability 279

Availability Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 279

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). This phase is buffering, before playback starts.

Engineering 356

Engineering Code Open Source Hardware 356

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Teams can then act before attackers have the chance to compromise key data or bring down critical systems. This data helps teams see where attacks began, which systems were targeted, and what techniques attackers used. Proactive protection, however, focuses on finding evidence of attacks before they compromise key systems.

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

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. We use Salt to make operating system agnostic declarative statements about how to configure a workstation.

Entertainment 307

Entertainment Storage Open Source Hardware 307

DZone

JANUARY 25, 2023

Imagine you can benefit from an up-to-date and fully-loaded operating system on a 90s hardware configuration of 512 MB and 1-core CPU. Choosing a Distro to Start Unlike Windows and macOS, Linux is a family of open-source operating systems, and many different distros have been published.

Servers 195

Servers Open Source Hardware Operating System 195

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.

Availability 43

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 43

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