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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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.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

You can verify any system settings that might impact your tests and see them in action. Load generators simulate traffic. Maybe you want to monitor performance under different system loads. Or maybe you want to correlate an event with other events in your system. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science.

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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

MAY 6, 2020

Over the last two month s, w e’ve monito red key sites and applications across industries that have been receiving surges in traffic , including government, health insurance, retail, banking, and media. The following day, a normally mundane Wednesday , traffic soared to 128,000 sessions.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2020

All of this puts a lot of pressure on IT systems and applications. Step 1: Understand Traffic Patterns and Potential Spikes; Remove Team Silos. The impact of traffic spikes is illustrated by the load that eCommerce web sites typically see during Black Friday. The next step is to understand when your system is going to break.

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Traffic Ecommerce Retail Government 285

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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Performance Optimizations PostgreSQL 17 significantly improves performance, query handling, and database management, making it more efficient for high-demand systems. Read Also: Best PostgreSQL GUI Incremental Backups PostgreSQL 17 introduces incremental backups , a game-changer for large and high-traffic databases. </p>

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Possible scenarios A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack overwhelms servers with traffic, making a website or service unavailable. Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Human error Human error remains one of the leading causes of tech outages.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. 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. What is Docker?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

But managing the breadth of the vulnerabilities that can put your systems at risk is challenging. Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations.

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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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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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Availability Servers Network Testing 277

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

The resulting outages wreaked havoc on customer experiences and left IT professionals scrambling to quickly find and repair affected systems. Dynatrace offers various out-of-the-box features and applications to provide a high-density overview of system health for all hosts and related metrics in a single view.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

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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Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. Observability is essential to ensure the reliability, security and quality of any software system. However, serverless applications have unique characteristics that make observability more difficult than in traditional server-based applications.

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Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. One change to send syslog to Dynatrace You can now use the syslog ingestion endpoint on Dynatrace Environment ActiveGate for performant network and system monitoring.

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Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The increasing number of smaller, decoupled services brings new challenges for controlling complexity within systems. Istio manages this with the help of Envoy, a lightweight remote configurable proxy server that can dynamically route traffic through a service mesh. Are you new to Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns. Reduced cost.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2023

Consider an event-driven automation system designed for incident management. 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. But it doesn’t stop there.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially. cell): Titus Job Coordinator is a leader elected process managing the active state of the system. For example, a batch workflow orchestration system may create multiple jobs which are part of a single workflow execution.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. Why should I adopt observability?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Minimized cross-data center network traffic. By utilizing embedded smart routing capabilities, Dynatrace minimizes cross-region network traffic—OneAgent traffic stays within the same network region. You can set up different proxy servers for the Mission Control uplink for each data center. Self-contained turnkey solution.

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Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

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. The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. What is web application security?

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Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 261

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. A big factor in good Digital Performance is the back-end system that powers your digitally offered use-cases.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. But manual configuration of observability for systems like this is nearly impossible.

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Metrics Network Infrastructure Traffic 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Therefore, it was unsurprising to see a huge spike in traffic for Family Visa enrollment via Metrash. The system saw up to 800 application requests per second – far more than anticipated. More worrisome was a spike in CPU usage, resulting in severe service disruption as backend processing systems crashed due to the spike in load.

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Java Traffic Government Code 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2020

Are the systems we rely on every day as reliable via the home internet connection? Example #1 Order System: No change in user or buyers’ behavior. Both types of users mentioned access the same system, the only difference is that employees access it via the internal network and externals through a public exposed URL.

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DevOps Traffic Monitoring Engineering 228

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Those use cases are well served by the Netflix Atlas telemetry system. Effectively managing this data at scale to extract valuable insights is crucial for ensuring optimal user experiences and system reliability.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Dynatrace news. A world of misunderstandings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. We have created streams of events from a number of systems that get unified into a single tool.

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Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 280

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. The more complex a system, the more places to look for clues. In an earlier blog post, we discussed Telltale , our health monitoring system. What is Edgar?

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. At the lowest level, SLIs provide a view of service availability, latency, performance, and capacity across systems. More than one in seven outages cost more than $1 million.

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Best Practices DevOps Latency Metrics 246

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. With MongoDB deployments, failovers aren’t considered major events as they were with traditional database management systems. Testing Failover Behavior. Configuring the Network Timeout Values. during network issues and failovers.

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