DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

HAProxy is one of the cornerstones in complex distributed systems, essential for achieving efficient load balancing and high availability. This open-source software, lauded for its reliability and high performance, is a vital tool in the arsenal of network administrators, adept at managing web traffic across diverse server environments.

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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

Monitoring 278

Monitoring Systems DevOps Virtualization 278

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Shifting to customer-centric IT For observability data to be meaningful, it must connect the performance of IT systems to customer experience throughout their journey, across both digital and physical touchpoints. Automate smarter using actual customer experience metrics, not just server-side data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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DZone

JANUARY 25, 2023

Linux could be a fantastic choice for your next cloud server. Imagine you can benefit from an up-to-date and fully-loaded operating system on a 90s hardware configuration of 512 MB and 1-core CPU. Although connecting to a server just using a single line command, you are keeping it secure could be a bit tricky.

Servers 195

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It also makes the process risky as production servers might be more exposed, leading to the need for real-time production data. This typically requires production server access, which, in most organizations, is difficult to arrange. Dynatrace servers never access, process, or store customer source code.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving IT landscape, the ability to respond quickly to system changes is essential. Event-driven automation enables systems to react instantly to specific triggers or events, enhancing infrastructure resilience and efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. Q: What was the cause of the outage?

Airlines 334

Airlines Servers Retail Monitoring 334

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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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. NTP servers, which manage the Network Time Protocol, are essential in achieving this.

Network 173

Network Servers Systems 173

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A high-level overview of how an attacker can exploit a CVE-2024-53677 vulnerable Struts application to upload a web shell into a web-accessible directory and then remotely execute commands on the web server via the web shell. While Struts version 6.4.0 Complete mitigation is only guaranteed in Struts version 7.0.0

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It requires a state-of-the-art system that can track and process these impressions while maintaining a detailed history of each profiles exposure. In this multi-part blog series, we take you behind the scenes of our system that processes billions of impressions daily.

Tuning 166

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

Traffic 357

Traffic Latency Metrics Cache 357

Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

Scale to zero Scaling systems to match current demand prevents underutilized machines from consuming significant energy while idling. While building production systems that can scale to zero and reliably restart can be challenging, it’s often simpler in test stages and build pipelines, making this a great place to start.

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Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 147

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Performance Optimizations PostgreSQL 17 significantly improves performance, query handling, and database management, making it more efficient for high-demand systems. Reduced Server Load: Running backups on a secondary server keeps the primary database running smoothly. </p>

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Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

You can verify any system settings that might impact your tests and see them in action. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads. Or maybe you want to correlate an event with other events in your system. Legacy servers pick up complexity and dependencies over time. The reasons for this are many.

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. The idea has been that a CDN has fast edge servers that cache content and deliver it based on the user’s geolocation. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

New: identify hotspots with the honeycomb visualization Honeycombs are great for visualizing health in complex and distributed systems, enabling you to visualize countless entities effectively and at scale. Now, let’s introduce you to our two newest entries to our visualization catalog and tell you about the great things you can do with them.

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Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

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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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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.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In a single view, developers get an instant overview of application performance, system health, logs, problems, deployment status, user interactions, and much more. Using the trace ID, we can inspect the captured trace directly in the Dynatrace Tracing app, giving us a full view of the end-to-end transaction as it flows through our systems.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

MySQL configuration variables are a set of server system variables used to configure the operation and behavior of the server. Configuration variables that can be set at run time are called Dynamic variables and those that need a MySQL server restart to take effect are called Non-Dynamic variables. and MySQL 8.0.

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DZone

JUNE 24, 2024

Traditional enterprise storage or HPC-focused parallel file systems are costly and challenging to manage for AI-scale deployments. High-performance storage systems can significantly reduce AI model training time. The 2U dual sockets server used by Delta and equipped with 24x 7450 NVMe 15.36

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DZone

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Problem Statement Controlling numerous URL redirects in IIS Manager operating on Windows Server systems proves difficult because it requires extended work time. When redirect rules within the IIS interface and web.config file require manual configuration, their management becomes more complicated due to the growing number of redirects.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In a distributed system, consensus plays an important role in determining consistency, and Patroni uses DCS to attain consensus. This way, at any point in time, there can only be one master running in the system. Standby Server Tests. Reboot the server. patronictl list did not display this server. Test Scenario.

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DZone

JANUARY 16, 2024

When we talk about " serverless ," it doesn't mean servers are absent. Instead, the responsibility of server maintenance shifts from the user to the provider. Reduced operational overhead: Developers can focus purely on writing code and pushing updates, rather than worrying about server upkeep.

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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. It also provides insights into system performance and allows for proactive management. We’re now adding Inodes Total as a pie chart to our dashboard.

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Metrics Infrastructure Monitoring Best Practices 243

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

Open Source 147

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

message Item ( Bytes key, Bytes value, Metadata metadata, Integer chunk ) Database Agnostic Abstraction The KV abstraction is designed to hide the implementation details of the underlying database, offering a consistent interface to application developers regardless of the optimal storage system for that use case.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

Hardware 243

Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

DZone

JANUARY 30, 2024

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless.

Software Engineering 276

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software 276

DZone

JANUARY 3, 2024

Through the use of virtualization technology, multiple operating systems can now run on a single physical machine, revolutionizing the way we use computer hardware.

Virtualization 321

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Available directly from the AWS Marketplace , Dynatrace provides full-stack observability and AI to help IT teams optimize the resiliency of their cloud applications from the user experience down to the underlying operating system, infrastructure, and services. How does Dynatrace help?

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