DZone

AUGUST 27, 2024

This was manifested in systems designs as well where we pushed these biases when designing systems. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” - Source unknown As you can see in the quote above, humans have this tendency to retry things even when results are not going to change.

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DZone

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of DevOps , the ability to gain deep insights into system behavior, diagnose issues, and improve overall performance is one of the top priorities. Monitoring and observability are two key concepts that facilitate this process, offering valuable visibility into the health and performance of systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems. ETL workflows), as well as downstream (e.g.

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DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By the end of this guide, you’ll have a comprehensive understanding of database sharding, enabling you to implement it effectively in your systems. This section will provide insights into the architecture and strategies to ensure efficient query processing in a sharded environment.

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DZone

JANUARY 26, 2024

Building a strong messaging system is critical in the world of distributed systems for seamless communication between multiple components. A messaging system serves as a backbone, allowing information transmission between different services or modules in a distributed architecture.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This is an article from DZone's 2023 Observability and Application Performance Trend Report. For more: Read the Report Employing cloud services can incur a great deal of risk if not planned and designed correctly. In fact, this is really no different than the challenges that are inherit within a single on-premises data center implementation.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Regarding contemporary software architecture, distributed systems have been widely recognized for quite some time as the foundation for applications with high availability, scalability, and reliability goals. Spring Boot Overview One of the most popular Java EE frameworks for creating apps is Spring.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of data has shifted from being merely a byproduct of business to becoming its lifeblood. With businesses constantly in the race to stay ahead, the process of integrating this data becomes crucial. However, it's no longer enough to assimilate data in isolated, batch-oriented processes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

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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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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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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output. This limited pilot system greatly reduced the time spent by our users to manually analyze the content. Maintaining disparate systems posed a challenge. Processing took several hours to complete.

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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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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Building scalable systems using microservices architecture is a strategic approach to developing complex applications. This step-by-step guide outlines the process of creating a microservices-based system, complete with detailed examples.

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DZone

MAY 3, 2023

In today's world, the need for highly available and fault-tolerant systems is more important than ever. It includes features such as automatic scaling, rolling updates, and self-healing, making it an ideal choice for building highly available systems.

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DZone

APRIL 16, 2023

“Set it and forget it” is the approach that most network teams follow with their authoritative Domain Name System (DNS). If the system is working and end-users find network connections to revenue-generating applications, services, and content, then administrators will generally say that you shouldn’t mess with success.

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DZone

MARCH 5, 2024

Since most application releases depend on cloud infrastructure, having good continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and end-to-end observability becomes essential for ensuring highly available systems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

For the CrowdStrike issue, one can use both monitored Windows System logs and the Dynatrace entity model to find out what servers are impacted. The following is an example of a query using the Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) to find out when BSOD issues are being written to Windows System logs.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As software pipelines evolve, so do the demands on binary and artifact storage systems. The Current Landscape: Artifact and Package Manager Solutions There are several leading artifact and package management systems today, each with its own strengths and limitations. Let’s explore the key players:

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DZone

MARCH 7, 2023

When organizations move toward the cloud, their systems also lean toward distributed architectures. You need to find the right tools to monitor, track and trace these systems by analyzing outputs through metrics, logs, and traces. One of the most common examples is the adoption of microservices.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a discipline in which automated software systems are built to manage the development operations (DevOps) of a product or service. In other words, SRE automates the functions of an operations team via software systems.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Implementing idempotency would likely require using an external system for such keys, which can further degrade performance or cause race conditions.

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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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, such as the Log4Shell incident in 2021, allow attackers to run malicious code on a remote system without requiring authentication or user interaction.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

The appeal of building a system that's inherently designed to grow and adapt as the startup evolves is undeniable. This approach offers many advantages, particularly in enabling teams to update and deploy individual components without disrupting the entire system.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. Some tools demand the installation of agents on those systems and provide complex, disconnected views.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Prometheus, a powerful open-source monitoring system, emerges as a perfect fit for this role, especially when integrated with Kubernetes. Kubernetes, the de-facto orchestration platform, offers scalability and agility. However, managing its health and performance efficiently necessitates a robust monitoring solution.

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DZone

JUNE 19, 2024

These strategies will help you understand the importance of pagination and how they can benefit your system. In this article, we will explore two pagination strategies, offset and cursor-based pagination, that are suited to different scenarios and requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The AB experiment results hinted that GraphQL’s correctness was not up to par with the legacy system. We set up a client-side AB experiment that tested Falcor versus GraphQL and reported coarse-grained quality of experience metrics ( QoE ).

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DZone

JANUARY 22, 2024

It's an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. This is where Prometheus and Grafana step in, forming a dynamic duo that provides comprehensive insights into Kubernetes clusters.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Windows Events logs record many different operating system processes, application activity, and account activity. We will be shipping Windows Event logs to a popular backend: Google Cloud Ops. You can find out more on the GitHub page here. What Signals Matter? Some relevant log types you will want to monitor include:

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2024

This comprehensive essay will look at the many storage types that are often used in cloud computing systems. In this detailed post, we will look at the various storage formats that are often utilized in cloud computing systems. Cloud computing platforms have transformed the way businesses handle and access data.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. Changes are introduced on a controlled schedule, typically once a week, to reduce the risk of affecting customer systems.

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Monitoring Open Source Testing Software 258

DZone

JANUARY 23, 2024

Commonly, people define functional requirements as to how the system should work. In contrast, non-functional requirements refer to how well the system should behave or perform. In software testing, we have traditionally grouped requirements into two main areas: functional and non-functional.

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