DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In this article, we’ll dive deep into the concept of database sharding, a critical technique for scaling databases to handle large volumes of data and high levels of traffic. Here’s what you can expect to learn: What is Sharding?: We’ll start by defining what sharding is and why it’s essential for modern, high-performance databases.

Database 279

Database Systems Scalability Traffic 279

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 Efficiency 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Accurately Reflecting Production Behavior A key part of our solution is insights into production behavior, which necessitates our requests to the endpoint result in traffic to the real service functions that mimics the same pathways the traffic would take if it came from the usualcallers. We call this capability TimeTravel.

Traffic 172

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 172

High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2020

It's HighScalability time: Instead of turning every car into rolling sensor studded supercomputers, roads could be festooned with stationary edge command and control pods for offloading compute, sensing and managing traffic. Number Stuff: Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually.

Internet 36

Internet Internet Scalability Latency 36

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

In the past 15+ years, online video traffic has experienced a dramatic boom utterly unmatched by any other form of content. It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

Social Media 281

Social Media Java Traffic Internet 281

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments. Kafka stores and distributes data through a partitioned log system, which spans multiple brokers to provide fault tolerance and scalability. However, performance can decline under high traffic conditions. What is RabbitMQ?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

High Scalability

MARCH 15, 2019

trillion suns : weight of the Milky Way; 300 +: backdoored apps on GitHub; 10% : hacked self-driving cars needed to bring traffic to a halt; $3 million : Marriott data breach cost after insurance; Quoteable Quotes: @kelseyhightower : Platform in a box solutions that are attempting to turn Kubernetes into a PaaS are missing the "as a service" part.

Internet 34

Internet Internet Scalability IoT 34

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. Comments tell you about the state, not the code. So many more quotes.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

To this end, we developed a Rapid Event Notification System (RENO) to support use cases that require server initiated communication with devices in a scalable and extensible manner. We thus assigned a priority to each use case and sharded event traffic by routing to priority-specific queues and the corresponding event processing clusters.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). billion increase in pure-play foundry market; Quotable Quotes: WhatsApp cofounder : I am a sellout. There more.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. What is Docker?

Open Source 334

Open Source DevOps Traffic Cloud 334

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

Performance Testing 230

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 230

High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll learn a lot and love you even more. So many more quotes.

Internet 146

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 146

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

High Scalability

APRIL 26, 2019

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). billion : FTC Facebook fine; 1.56 Eduards Sizovs : Be the company that says: we are hiring mentoring. ???

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Azure 28

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With these additional availability zones you’ll get: More scalability and load-balancing options. Some organizations require adding IP addresses to security configurations to allow traffic from and to them. your website or application) needs to accept traffic from the IP addresses of our synthetic locations.

Scalability 29

Scalability Traffic Monitoring Benchmarking 29

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Aside from the huge surge in internal application usage, businesses are also witnessing increased levels of user traffic to their applications. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience. One example of these surges was from an unemployment application.

Traffic 280

Traffic Government Database Network 280

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Aria Bracci : Using a previously established, peer-reviewed technique, the team conducted more than half a million data traffic tests across 161 countries. ” @mjpt777 : "Patterson indicated that rewriting Python into C gets you a 50 times speedup in performance". More quotes.

Internet 126

Internet Internet Scalability Traffic 126

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Sheera Frenkel : “We’re not going to traffic in your personal life,” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in an MSNBC interview. We have moved on to newer, faster, more reliable, more agile, more versatile technology at more lower cost and higher scale. AWS Redshift FTW! “Privacy to us is a human right.

Internet 28

Internet Internet Scalability Energy 28

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

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

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.

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

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, Quite contrary, this was the era of the 250GB / month cap from Comcast and we could observe clearly that they were throttling Netflix traffic. There are more quotes, more everything.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

The world’s most scalable, automatic distributed tracing pushes the boundary once again with enhanced Adaptive Load Management. Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. Dynatrace news. Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace CTO. Impact on disk space.

Processing 234

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 234

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness. Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands. But how do they function in practice?

Speed 264

Speed Software Software Latency 264

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

JULY 6, 2018

ThousandEyes : The Internet is made up of thousands of autonomous networks that are interdependent on one another to deliver traffic from point to point across the globe. Paul Ingles : We didn’t change our organisation because we wanted to use Kubernetes, we used Kubernetes because we wanted to change our organisation.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scalability Google 110

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

In reality, only highly scalable RUM solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools must sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. Real user monitoring limitations.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

Traffic lights on a busy stretch of road could go dark. This gives public sector teams the best of both worlds: peak-performance applications without vulnerabilities, made possible by a highly scalable application security solution. Thousands of veterans may not receive benefits notifications.

Government 246

Government Innovation Open Source Traffic 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In many ways, the shift to cloud computing and the adoption of cloud-native architectures have enabled organizations to realize greater resiliency alongside scalability. But in a cloud-native world, resiliency must expand to include the ability for organizations to recover quickly from failures and ensure business continuity.

Infrastructure 290

Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring Software Performance 290

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

High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Only 20% of YouTube’s traffic is from the United States. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). There are a few more quotes. Don't miss them.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As Big data and ML became more prevalent and impactful, the scalability, reliability, and usability of the orchestrating ecosystem have increasingly become more important for our data scientists and the company. Motivation Scalability and usability are essential to enable large-scale workflows and support a wide range of use cases.

Java 211

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 211

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Web Application Firewall (WAF) helps protect a web application against malicious HTTP traffic. The most common web traffic transforms implement URL encryption, cookie signing, and anti-CSRF tokens to block CSRF attacks. The Dynatrace OneAgent has been proven to be scalable and high-performing in the largest enterprises in the world.

Open Source 261

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Take the example of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs, which provide insights into the IP traffic of your network interfaces. With this out-of-the-box support for scalable data ingest, log data is immediately available to your teams for troubleshooting and observability, investigating security issues, or auditing.

Cloud 279

Cloud Lambda AWS Analytics 279

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Measure cloud resource consumption to ensure resources are scalable and keep up with business requirements. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295