DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I worked as a team lead at one of the biggest social networks, where I led teams of up to 10 members, including SEO specialists, analysts, and product manager. I am Alexander Kolobov. I want to touch upon the following aspects:

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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DZone

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gossip protocol is a communication scheme used in distributed systems for efficiently disseminating information among nodes. This article will discuss the gossip protocol in detail, followed by its potential implementation in social media networks, including Instagram.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2023

For cloud operations teams, network performance monitoring is central in ensuring application and infrastructure performance. If the network is sluggish, an application may also be slow, frustrating users. Worse, a malicious attacker may gain access to the network, compromising sensitive application data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In the changing world of data centers and cloud computing, the desire for efficient, flexible, and scalable networking solutions has resulted in the broad use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Traditional networking models have a tightly integrated control plane and data plane within network devices.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

API resilience is about creating systems that can recover gracefully from disruptions, such as network outages or sudden traffic spikes, ensuring they remain reliable and secure. This has become critical since APIs serve as the backbone of todays interconnected systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

Combined with Dynatrace OneAgent ® , you gain a precise view of the status of your systems at a glance. Why browser and HTTP monitors might not be sufficient In modern IT environments, which are complex and dynamically changing, you often need deeper insights into the Transport or Network layers. But is this all you need?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Power outages and network issues are common examples of challenges that can put your service — and your business — at risk. For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly.

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DZone

OCTOBER 26, 2023

My first encounter with this monitoring system was in 2014 when I joined a project where Zabbix was already in use for monitoring network devices (routers, switches). Over the course of five years, while working on the project, we went through several system upgrades until we finally transitioned to Zabbix 4.0

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DZone

JANUARY 17, 2023

Building performant services and systems is at the core of every business. Growing organizations, in the process of upscaling their services, unintentionally introduce complexities into the system. Tons of technologies emerge daily, promising capabilities that help you surpass your performance benchmarks.

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DZone

MAY 12, 2023

The system design of the Presence Platform depends on the design of the Real-Time Platform. I highly recommend reading the related article to improve your system design skills. The presence status is popular on real-time messaging applications and social networking platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slack [2].

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

Integration with existing systems and processes : Integration with existing IT infrastructure, observability solutions, and workflows often requires significant investment and customization. Network traffic power calculations rely on static power estimations for both public and private networks. Public network traffic uses 1.0

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. Distributed cloud systems are complex, dynamic, and difficult to manage without the proper tools. What is log management?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

This is further exacerbated by the fact that a significant portion of their IT budgets are allocated to maintaining outdated legacy systems. By combining AI and observability, government agencies can create more intelligent and responsive systems that are better equipped to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

System resilience stands as the key requirement for e-commerce platforms during scaling operations to keep services operational and deliver performance excellence to users. We have developed a microservices architecture platform that encounters sporadic system failures when faced with heavy traffic events.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Clearly, continuing to depend on siloed systems, disjointed monitoring tools, and manual analytics is no longer sustainable. Get to the root cause of issues Most AI today uses machine learning models like neural networks that find correlations and make predictions based on them.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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DZone

MARCH 19, 2025

With this, traditional monitoring tools are struggling to keep up as IT systems grow more complex with microservices, dynamic setups, and distributed networks. When it comes to customer satisfaction, providing excellent service isnt optional anymore its essential for success.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the connected world of today, accurate timekeeping has become essential for many functions of contemporary computing and communication systems. Accurate time is crucial for all financial transactions, data synchronization, network security, and even just making sure that devices around the world are in sync.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Any service provider tries to reach several metrics in their activity. One group of these metrics is service quality. Quality metrics contain: The ratio of successfully processed requests. Distribution of processing time between requests. Number of requests dependent curves.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2025

Scalability is a fundamental concept in both technology and business that refers to the ability of a system, network, or organization to handle a growing amount of requests or ability to grow. This characteristic is crucial for maintaining performance and efficiency as need increases.

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DZone

JANUARY 7, 2025

In the world of distributed systems, few things are more frustrating to users than making a change and then not seeing it immediately. Try to change your status on your favorite social network site and reload the page only to discover your previous status.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Host Monitoring dashboards offer real-time visibility into the health and performance of servers and network infrastructure, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution. This information is crucial for identifying network issues, troubleshooting connectivity problems, and ensuring reliable domain name resolution.

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DZone

MARCH 27, 2023

Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computing system designed for large-scale data processing. What Is Apache Spark? It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley's AMPLab, and is now maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2025

For example, if you’re monitoring network traffic and the average over the past 7 days is 500 Mbps, the threshold will adapt to this baseline. Forecasting can identify potential anomalies in node performance, helping to prevent issues before they impact the system. This ensures optimal resource utilization and cost efficiency.

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DZone

MAY 17, 2024

The complexity of distributed systems is an important challenge for engineers and developers. Complexity tends to increase as the system evolves, and therefore it is important to be proactive. However, they use a common network for coordination and centralization.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Let’s explore each of these elements and what organizations can do to avoid them.

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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.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Multimodal data processing is the evolving need of the latest data platforms powering applications like recommendation systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical diagnostics. Handling multimodal data spanning text, images, videos, and sensor inputs requires resilient architecture to manage the diversity of formats and scale.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2020

To achieve this, we often need to make changes in the settings of created network sockets and default settings of Linux kernel, monitor the usage of the TCP Send/Receive Buffers and Queues and, in particular, adjust our application to be a good candidate for solving this problem.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But nowadays, with complex and dynamically changing modern IT systems, the last result details might not be enough in some cases. It now fully supports not only Network Availability Monitors but also HTTP synthetic monitors. The new Dynatrace Synthetic app allows you to analyze these results.

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems. This can result in a complete system takeover, malware installation, data manipulation, and the creation of backdoors for persistent access.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 31, 2025

In our Dynatrace Dashboard tutorial, we want to add a chart that shows the bytes in and out per host over time to enhance visibility into network traffic. By tracking these metrics, we can identify any unusual spikes or drops in network activity, which might indicate performance issues or bottlenecks. Expand the Single value section.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

These metrics help to keep a network system up and running?, Containment: Implements actions to safeguard affected systems, resolves incidents quickly and escalates an event to other teams when necessary. This does not include lag time in the alert system. a critical task that’s easier said than done. Mean time to repair.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

AWS CloudFront is one of the most widely used content delivery network (CDN) systems. In the age of global digital services, geo-location-based content is critical for improving user experience and engagement, especially if you implement any shops or subscription services that should be adopted by the local market.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With the advent of cloud computing, managing network traffic and ensuring optimal performance have become critical aspects of system architecture. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a leading cloud service provider, offers a suite of load balancers to manage network traffic effectively for applications running on its platform.

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