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What is hyperconverged infrastructure? Realizing the benefits of HCI

Dynatrace

That’s where hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, comes in. What is hyperconverged infrastructure? Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management.

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Netflix’s Distributed Counter Abstraction

The Netflix TechBlog

However, this category requires near-immediate access to the current count at low latencies, all while keeping infrastructure costs to a minimum. Eventually Consistent : This category needs accurate and durable counts, and is willing to tolerate a slight delay in accuracy and a slightly higher infrastructure cost as a trade-off.

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Cloud infrastructure monitoring in action: Dynatrace on Dynatrace

Dynatrace

A critical component to this success was that the Dynatrace Team itself uses the Dynatrace Platform to monitor every single Dynatrace cluster in the cloud and trusts the Dynatrace Davis AI to alert in case there are any issues, either with a new feature, a configuration change or with the infrastructure our servers are running on.

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AI-powered DNS request tracking extends infrastructure observability for high quality network traffic

Dynatrace

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. Identify under-performing DNS servers. Slower response times can be a sign of a stressed DNS server or network communication issues.

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Infrastructure monitoring for enterprise cloud – 4 key requirements

Dynatrace

Anyone moving to the cloud knows that it isn’t just a change from running servers in your data center to running them in someone else’s data center. If you’re doing it right, cloud represents a fundamental change in how you build, deliver and operate your applications and infrastructure. And that includes infrastructure monitoring.

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Monitoring of Kubernetes Infrastructure for day 2 operations

Dynatrace

One of the promises of container orchestration platforms is to make i t easier for the developers to accelerate the deployment of their app lication s without having to worry about scalability and infrastructure dependencies. It is important to understand the impact infrastructure can have on the platform and the application it runs.

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What is infrastructure as code? Discover the basics, benefits, and best practices

Dynatrace

.” While this methodology extends to every layer of the IT stack, infrastructure as code (IAC) is the most prominent example. Here, we’ll tackle the basics, benefits, and best practices of IAC, as well as choosing infrastructure-as-code tools for your organization. What is infrastructure as code? Consistency.