Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 provides faster processing, greater efficiency, and better scalability for modern database needs. Read Also: Best PostgreSQL GUI Incremental Backups PostgreSQL 17 introduces incremental backups , a game-changer for large and high-traffic databases. </p>

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. What is Docker? Networking.

Open Source 334

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 334

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Reduced cost.

Cloud 241

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Possible scenarios A retail website crashes during a major sale event due to a surge in traffic. These attacks can be orchestrated by hackers, cybercriminals, or even state actors.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Unwelcome Gaze is a triptych visualizing the publicly reachable web server infrastructure of Google, Facebook, Amazon and the routing graph(s) leading to them. Sheera Frenkel : “We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in an MSNBC interview. AWS Redshift FTW!

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud-server monitoring. Website monitoring.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes? Reliability How can we guarantee that a code change will be safe when rolled out to our production environment? Capacity and Efficiency Which resources (clusters, tables, …) are unused or under-utilized and why?

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. It is more critical to our business than any other revenue-driving application.”

Software 214

Software Software Programming Metrics 214

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

A web application is any application that runs on a web server and is accessed by a user through a web browser. Dynamic Application Security Tests (DAST) analyze running code, including the underlying application frameworks and servers. Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic.

Open Source 261

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

If the primary server encounters issues, operations are smoothly transitioned to a standby server with minimal interruption. Key Takeaways PostgreSQL automatic failover enhances high availability by seamlessly switching to standby servers during primary server failures, minimizing downtime, and maintaining business continuity.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, Charlie Demerjian : what does Intel have planned for their server roadmap? Why is it causing such consternation among OEMs, ODMs, and major customers? How bad is it?

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

Introducing network probes: the new scalability challenges were solved with products like NV and AV. All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. This approach works as long as application traffic can be decrypted. ” The AppMon wave.

Network 221

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 221

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Scalable and easy Prometheus support for Kubernetes. By directly and automatically feeding Prometheus data from metric exporters, Dynatrace solves the scalability problem. Dynatrace understands dependencies, traffic, and transaction flows and how they change over time. Dynatrace now provides a direct solution for this challenge.

Open Source 264

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 264

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Only 20% of YouTube’s traffic is from the United States. One of the documents says in no uncertain terms that the company understands they will not be competitive in the server market until AFTER Sapphire Rapids, the 2022 server part. People watch more Minecraft hours than the NBA, NHL, NFL, and MLB combined.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. OSDI’20.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. When a server experiences an outage, the system promptly triggers an alert and initiates actions like restarting a server or redirecting traffic to a redundant server.

DevOps 246

DevOps Traffic Efficiency Servers 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With traffic growth, a single leader node handling all request volume started becoming overloaded. We started seeing increased response latencies and leader servers running at dangerously high utilization. Usage of high-resolution monotonic time sources like Java’s nano time within a single server process. queries/sec.

Cache 233

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 233

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. Let’s start with the spike in load: The high demand on family visa enrollments resulted in a huge traffic and CPU spike. Perform an audit on default settings of the application server.

Java 246

Java Traffic Government Code 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. While many databases offer server-side compression, handling compression on the client side reduces expensive server CPU usage, network bandwidth, and disk I/O.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. It also enhances syslog messages with additional context and optimizes network traffic, improving overall system resilience and security.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

It means that if each event loop has a connection pool that connects to every origin (our name for backend) server, there would be a multiplication of event loops by servers by Zuul instances. For example, a 16-core box connecting to an 800-server origin would have 12,800 connections.

Traffic 178

Traffic Servers Google Metrics 178

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

AWS 164

AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 164

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications. The Dynatrace platform also enables teams to monitor logs generated by applications, servers, and infrastructure components.

DevOps 246

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 246

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Welcome to the first installment of our series: Scalable Solutions with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. Then, in the upcoming part of this post, Scalable Solutions with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL (Part 2): Using Citus , we will use these worker nodes to establish a multi-node Citus cluster and implement sharding techniques.

Scalability 107

Scalability Database Open Source Traffic 107

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Let’s click “Apache Web Server apache” now.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center? How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service? Step 3: Detailed Traffic Dependency Analysis. What’s in your stack?”.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

PostgreSQL supports sharding, which allows data to be distributed across multiple servers, making it ideal for high-traffic websites and applications. It has a proven track record of handling large volumes of data and high-traffic websites.

Database 139

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 139

Scalegrid

AUGUST 27, 2024

They utilize a routing key mechanism that ensures precise navigation paths for message traffic. Scalability : Message queues can handle multiple requests and messages simultaneously, making it easier to scale an application to meet increasing demands. This scalability is essential for applications that experience fluctuating workloads.

Ecommerce 130

Ecommerce IoT Games Scalability 130

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

As said, the last one is probably the most powerful, scalable, and difficult to design, and unfortunately, it represents probably less than 5% of the solution currently deployed. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 144

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 144

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle. million requests per second.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot. It offers automatic data sharding, master-replica configurations for high availability, and a scalable and flexible architecture to maintain consistent performance.

Scalability 130

Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130