Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Finally, observability helps organizations understand the connections between disparate software, hardware, and infrastructure resources.

Analytics 243

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 243

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 175

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 175

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This can result in significant cost savings for high traffic applications.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

First, he pointed to the infrastructure monitoring capabilities as critical to understanding the impact of hardware failures. You can see the traffic reaching each milestone of an online shopping journey. Auer outlined the key benefits of Dynatrace’s observability for e-commerce use cases and beyond. We really like how Davis works.

Retail 245

Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 245

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

Latency 224

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 224

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

The idea CFS operates by very frequently (every few microseconds) applying a set of heuristics which encapsulate a general concept of best practices around CPU hardware use. For services, the gains were even more impressive.

Cache 260

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 260

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. The second example was around web-server threads, which turned out that the team ran with default settings for Apache (200 worker threads) which was too low for the traffic the government agencies are receiving during business hours.

Cache 205

Cache Database Architecture Government 205

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. Unified observability is the ability to know how systems and infrastructure are performing based on the data they generate, such as logs, metrics, and traces.

Cloud 234

Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Open Source 234

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 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

Infrastructure 195

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 195

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures. Regular expression matching is well studied, but state of the art hardware algorithms don’t reach the performance and memory targets needed for Pigasus. MPSM: First things first.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

IoT is transforming how industries operate and make decisions, from agriculture to mining, energy utilities, and traffic management. They enable real-time tracking and enhanced situational awareness for air traffic control and collision avoidance systems. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

IoT 223

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 223

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Demand Engineering Demand Engineering is responsible for Regional Failovers , Traffic Distribution, Capacity Operations and Fleet Efficiency of the Netflix cloud.

Open Source 280

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

More efficient SSL/TLS handling for OneAgent traffic. By default, all OneAgent traffic is now routed to your embedded ActiveGate via NGINX on port 443. As announced with the release of Dynatrace Managed version 1.150 , we now route all incoming traffic through NGINX in an effort to increase performance and ease configuration effort.

Traffic 23

Traffic Hardware Efficiency Database 23

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Database operations must continue without disruption to ensure high availability, even when faced with hardware or software failures. No Test Scenario Observation 1 Network isolate the standby server from other servers Corosync traffic was blocked on the standby server. There was no disruption in the writer application.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For availability, I always propose to use Dynatrace Synthetic vs looking at real user traffic. Because Synthetic tests are predictable and eliminate any seasonal behavior or impact of the end user’s environment (defect hardware, bad Wi-Fi, etc.). For our SLO the only thing we need is the default Mobile Crash Rate metric. Availability.

DevOps 217

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 217

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 26

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 26

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Making predictions about web traffic is a very difficult endeavor. Total Cost of Ownership. t need them.

AWS 99

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 99

All Things Distributed

MARCH 4, 2017

With all the resources we have today, it is easier for us to achieve fault-tolerance than it was many decades ago when computers began playing a role in critical systems such as health care, air traffic control and financial market systems. In the early days, the thinking was to use a hardware approach to achieve fault-tolerance.

Hardware 109

Hardware Traffic Software Software 109

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The purpose of infrastructure as code is to enable developers or operations teams to automatically manage, monitor, and provision resources, rather than manually configure discrete hardware devices and operating systems. Proactively manage web and mobile applications based on user experience or traffic.

Infrastructure 183

Infrastructure Code Cloud DevOps 183

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers. These include runtime parameters, server grouping, and traffic-related settings. The proxy is designed to run continuously without needing to be restarted.

Traffic 115

Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 115

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks. No gatekeepers.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. We understand the dependencies between the mainframe, data center, and cloud, including all application components and even end-user experience.

Java 134

Java Hardware Metrics Tuning 134

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 114

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 114

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues.

AWS 125

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 125

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. Standard stuff.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 84

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 84

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. During the winter holiday season, the use of the app increases by up to 300% and AWS allows them to seamlessly scale up to cope with the increase in traffic. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS.

AWS 120

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 120

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 123

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

The immediate (working) goal and requirements of HA architecture The more immediate (and “working” goal) of an HA architecture is to bring together a combination of extensions, tools, hardware, software, etc., Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Architecture 103

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 103

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. The City of Chicago is one of the first to bring sensors throughout the city that will permanently measure air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, wind and traffic.

Analytics 111

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 111

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting with version 1.170, hardware updates are applied automatically when services are restarted. An agent field is provided for enabling/disabling OneAgent traffic on individual nodes. With this change, Dynatrace Managed deployment is now more resilient and more quickly adapts to your needs.

Hardware 104

Hardware Traffic Servers Monitoring 104

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. They maintain fault tolerance and redundancy by replicating this information throughout various nodes in the system.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 93

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 93