Dynatrace
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
To understand whats happening in todays complex software ecosystems, you need comprehensive telemetry data to make it all observable. In fact, observability is essential for shaping how we design smarter, more resilient systems for the future. With so many types of technologies in software stacks around the globe, OpenTelemetry has emerged as the de facto standard for gathering telemetry data.
DZone
JANUARY 15, 2025
There are many ways to deploy your microservices, each offering different levels of control, simplicity, and scalability. One approach is using Elastic Beanstalk , a fully managed service that simplifies deployment, scaling, and management. Another option is to deploy manually, giving you full control over the infrastructure but requiring more setup and maintenance.
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The Netflix TechBlog
JANUARY 6, 2025
Part 2: Navigating Ambiguity By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques Building on the foundation laid in Part 1 , where we explored the what behind the challenges of title launch observability at Netflix, this post shifts focus to the how. How do we ensure every title launches seamlessly and remains discoverable by the right audience?
Scalegrid
MARCH 10, 2025
Managing MySQL through the command line is powerfulbut not always the most user-friendly experience, especially when working with large datasets, building queries, or handling administrative tasks. Thats where MySQL GUIs come in. A graphical user interface (GUI) helps simplify how you interact with your MySQL databases. Whether youre a developer, database administrator, or data analyst, a good GUI can make everyday tasks faster, clearer, and less error-prone.
Percona
JANUARY 6, 2025
At Percona, we’ve always prioritized performance, and recent trends in MySQL’s development have been a point of concern for us. In particular, the performance deterioration in the MySQL 8.4.x and 9.y versions caught our attention, as highlighted in Marco Tusas insightful blog post, Sakila, Where Are You Going?
Percona Community
JANUARY 5, 2025
Percona Toolkit 3.7.0 has been released on Dec 23, 2024. The main feature of this release is MySQL 8.4 support. In this blog, I will explain what has been changed. A full list of improvements and bug fixes can be found in the release notes. TLDR; Replication statements in 8.4 are fully supported by the Percona Toolkit pt-slave-delay has been deprecated. pt-slave-find has been renamed to pt-replica-find.
O'Reilly
JANUARY 21, 2025
TL;DR: Enterprise AI teams are discovering that purely agentic approaches (dynamically chaining LLM calls) dont deliver the reliability needed for production systems. The prompt-and-pray modelwhere business logic lives entirely in promptscreates systems that are unreliable, inefficient, and impossible to maintain at scale. A shift toward structured automation, which separates conversational ability from business logic execution, is needed for enterprise-grade reliability.
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Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 7, 2025
How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing Saad Khan 2025-01-07T14:00:00+00:00 2025-01-07T22:04:48+00:00 This article is sponsored by Cloudways Product launches and sales typically attract large volumes of traffic. Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them.
Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 27, 2025
What Adrian Did NextPart 4how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone2007 to2010 Screen shots from Adrians Instant Queue Add for Netflix iPhone App in2008 Ive been meaning to get another installment of my career history posted for a while. The 15th anniversary of the launch of the iPad gave me a reason to pull out a chunk of that history into thispost.
CSS Wizardry
JANUARY 23, 2025
What is the real, long-term cost of adopting a JavaScript framework?
Dynatrace
MARCH 5, 2025
If you’re a developer who has ever had to troubleshoot a database issue, you know how frustrating it can be. One slow query, an inefficient index, or a schema misstep can grind an application to a halt. And with cloud-native databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, the complexity only grows. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) also face significant challenges in maintaining database reliability, ensuring performance, and preventing disruptions in highly dynamic and distributed environments.
DZone
JANUARY 10, 2025
SQL Server is a powerful relational database management system (RDBMS), but as datasets grow in size and complexity, optimizing their performance becomes critical. Leveraging AI can revolutionize query optimization and predictive maintenance, ensuring the database remains efficient, secure, and responsive. In this article, we will explore how AI can assist in these areas, providing code examples to tackle complex queries.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 4, 2025
Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. In this installment, we will explore the strategies, tools, and methodologies that were employed to achieve comprehensive title observability atscale.
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Choosing between RabbitMQ and Kafka depends on your specific messaging needs. RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Both serve distinct purposes, from managing message queues to ingesting large data volumes. This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload.
Percona
JANUARY 9, 2025
If youre managing a PostgreSQL database and handling sensitive data or PII, the answer is simple: You need data-at-rest encryption. This isnt just a “nice-to-have” featureits often a legal or regulatory requirement. Compliance auditors, security officers, and privacy-conscious customers all expect it. But is this enough? We think NO!
Percona Community
JANUARY 30, 2025
We’re excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 GA. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0 release delivers major security and stability enhancements. Notable security improvements include rootless deployments and encryption of sensitive data, along with improved API authentication using Grafana service accounts.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It.Proposals must be submitted by March 5; the conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11AM to 3PM EDT. When tools like GitHub Copilot first appeared, it was received wisdom that AI would make programming easier. It would be a boon to new programmers at the start of their careers, just learning a few new programming languages.
Speed Curve
JANUARY 19, 2025
Let's kick off the new year by celebrating someone who has not just had a huge impact on web performance over the past few years, but who has even more exciting stuff in the works for the future: Annie Sullivan! Annie leads the Chrome Speed Metrics team at Google, which has arguably had the most significant impact on web performance of the past decade.
Smashing Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2025
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results Geoff Graham 2025-01-09T13:00:00+00:00 2025-01-09T14:35:05+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear I was chatting with Debug B ear s Matt Zeunert and, in the process, he casually mentioned this thing called Tight Mode when describing how browsers fetch and prioritize resources.
John McCalpin
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The Multicore Era Over the past ~15 years, server processors from Intel and AMD have evolved from the early quad-core processors to the current monsters with over 50 cores per socket. The memory subsystems have grown at similar rates, from 3-4 DRAM channels at 1.333 GT/s transfer rates to 8-12 DRAM channels with 4.8 GT/s transfer rates, providing an aggregate peak memory bandwidth increase of 10x or more.
tRPC
MARCH 20, 2025
Although tRPC v11 has been production-ready for a long time via the @next tag, we've gotten kinda addicted to adding new features without being sticklers to semantic versioning. Today, we're excited to finally be ripping off the band-aid and announcing the official release of tRPC v11! Since our last major version release in November 2022, the tRPC community has seen substantial growth: We now have over 35,000 stars on GitHub A Discord community with over 5,000 members 700k+ weekly npm downloads
Dynatrace
JANUARY 14, 2025
Dynatrace integrates with Tenable to provide a single pane of glass for security findings across various environments and products, allowing unified analysis, prioritization, and orchestration of findings. With the enriched runtime context, you can focus on critical issues that impact your production apps and help reduce noise for the DevSecOps teams that remediate those issues.
DZone
JANUARY 20, 2025
Prometheus is a powerful monitoring tool that provides extensive metrics and insights into your infrastructure and applications, especially in k8s and OCP (enterprise k8s). While crafting PromQL (Prometheus Query Language) expressions, ensuring accuracy and compatibility is essential, especially when comparing metrics or calculating thresholds. In this article, we will explore how to count worker nodes and track changes in resources effectively using PromQL.
The Netflix TechBlog
JANUARY 2, 2025
This article is the second in a multi-part series sharing a breadth of Analytics Engineering work at Netflix, recently presented as part of our annual internal Analytics Engineering conference. Need to catch up? Check out Part 1. In this article, we highlight a few exciting analytic business applications, and in our final article well go into aspects of the technical craft.
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task.
Percona
JANUARY 8, 2025
This article will be helpful if you use the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance and alert notifications, as it is nice to capture the image of the graph when you receive the alert.
Sutter's Mill
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed the second-last design meeting of C++26, held in Hagenberg, Austria. There is just one meeting left before the C++26 feature set is finalized in June 2025 and draft C++26 is sent out for its international comment ballot (aka Committee Draft or CD), and C++26 is on track to be technically finalized two more meetings after that in early 2026.
O'Reilly
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In developing the content for our May 8 virtual conference Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It , we couldnt help but want to feature Harper Reed, whose recent post My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM so perfectly encapsulates the kind of experimentation that developers are going through as they come to grips with the transformation that AI is bringing to how they work, what they can accomplish, and which tools they should be adopting.
Speed Curve
MARCH 17, 2025
Comparing site outages to page slowdowns is like comparing a tire blowout to a slow leak. One is big and dramatic. The other is quiet and insidious. Either way, you end up stranded on the side of the road. Downtime is horrifying for any company that uses the web as a vital part of its business (which is to say, most companies). Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes.
Smashing Magazine
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. After all, no page content can be displayed until after the first chunk of the HTML has been loaded.
Percona Community
MARCH 17, 2025
This guide explains how to set up a MongoDB 8 Replica Set and monitor it using PMM 3, all within Docker. We’ll guide you through the steps to create a local environment, configure the necessary components, and connect them for effective monitoring and management. The guide is written in detail for beginners. In the conclusion section there are ready configurations for the experienced.
CSS Wizardry
MARCH 7, 2025
Learn how the Cache-Control request header works, how browsers handle refresh and hard refresh caching, and when developers should use it for realtime data and offline-first applications.
Dynatrace
JANUARY 21, 2025
Ensuring smooth operations is no small feat, whether you’re in charge of application performance, IT infrastructure, or business processes. Chances are, youre a seasoned expert who visualizes meticulously identified key metrics across several sophisticated charts. Your trained eye can interpret them at a glance, a skill that sets you apart. However, your responsibilities might change or expand, and you need to work with unfamiliar data sets.
DZone
JANUARY 3, 2025
As per the saying If you dont measure it, you cant manage it by Deming , observability and monitoring is our way to measure our services. Kubernetes is pretty revolutionary when it comes to the way it handles deployments and scales. But the way containers are continuously created and destroyed can sometimes present challenges with monitoring. This is where observability comes into play, offering critical insights into how your system is performing and why issues occur.
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Part 1: Creating the Source of Truth for Impressions By: TulikaBhatt Imagine scrolling through Netflix, where each movie poster or promotional banner competes for your attention. Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. At Netflix, we call these images impressions, and they play a pivotal role in transforming your interaction from simple browsing into an immersive binge-watching experience, all tailo
Scalegrid
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility.
Percona
JANUARY 22, 2025
Large tables can pose challenges for many operations when working with a database. Occasionally, we may need to modify the table definition. Since RDS replication does not use asynchronous for its replication, the typical switchover procedure is not feasible.
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