DZone
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The Dapr 1.14 release last month included many new capabilities and was feature-packed. This included the addition of a new Jobs API and Scheduler control plane service for managing jobs. Over the years, the Dapr project was often requested to include a Jobs API. The Scheduler service enables this and is designed to address the performance and scalability improvements on Actor reminders and the Workflow API.
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, the risk—and consequences—of cyberattacks are also increasing. This rising risk amplifies the need for reliable security solutions that integrate with existing systems. That’s why we’re proud to announce that Dynatrace has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA).
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Scalegrid
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. In an earlier blog post, we introduced you to configure high availability for PostgreSQL using streaming replication , and now we’re going to show you how to best manage client-side HA.
The Netflix TechBlog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
On AWS Lambda's 10th anniversary, I'm publishing the internal PR/FAQ that helped launch this groundbreaking service. This document provides insight into the customer problems we observed in the early 2010s and our vision for serverless computing. Readers will find annotations throughout, offering a glimpse into how our long-term thinking has influenced Lambda's evolution over the past decade.
Percona
JULY 11, 2024
Warning! Recently, Jean-François Gagné opened a bug on bug.mysql.com #115517; unfortunately, the bug is now private. However, the bug looks quite serious. We at Percona have performed several tests and opened the issue PS-9306 to investigate the problem.
Brendan Gregg
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Imagine halving the resource costs of AI and what that could mean for the planet and the industry -- based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 2030 1. At Intel we've been creating a new analyzer tool to help reduce AI costs called AI Flame Graphs : a visualization that shows an AI accelerator or GPU hardware profile along with the full software stack, based on my CPU flame graphs.
Technology Performance Pulse brings together the best content for technology performance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Sutter's Mill
MARCH 11, 2024
Scope. To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities.
InfoQ
APRIL 9, 2024
Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time.
Speed Curve
JANUARY 29, 2024
In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. In fact, the entire first chapter of my book, Time Is Money (reprinted here courtesy of the good folks at O'Reilly), is dedicated to the subject.
DZone
JUNE 19, 2024
Managing large datasets efficiently is essential in software development. Retrieval strategies play a crucial role in improving performance and scalability, especially when response times are critical. Pagination is a core technique used to manage data effectively. It is essential for optimizing performance and resource management. In this article, we will explore two pagination strategies, offset and cursor-based pagination, that are suited to different scenarios and requirements.
Dynatrace
JULY 19, 2024
Security vendor CrowdStrike released an update to their popular platform early on July 19, 2024, ultimately producing an issue that caused many Windows-based machines to fail, resulting in a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). The global impact has affected almost every major industry, resulting in closed bank branches , ground stops on flights , failures for retail point-of-sale devices, and, unfortunately, much more.
Adrian Cockcroft
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Photo by Adrian of my father’s “round tuit” which I’m hoping will inspire AWS to do something… There’s an old saying that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with a “no”. My hopes aren’t high, after spending the last three years waiting for anything new to appear. There’s been broken promises, management changes, I’ve been told that there are teams working on things like Scope 3 carbon accounting, but nothing has been released since the Well Architected Guide to Sustainabil
The Netflix TechBlog
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 22, 2024
Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one of AWS’s foundational services has evolved to meet the needs of our customers.
Percona
JUNE 10, 2024
Some 15 years ago, when Oracle acquired Sun, and hence MySQL, there was a lot of talk on the internet over when Oracle was going to “Kill MySQL” Multiple theories were circled around, ranging from killing MySQL altogether, so there is less competition to proprietary Oracle, or just killing it as an open source project, […]
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 23, 2024
When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don't want to lose precious time just to install the tools needed to diagnose it. Here is a list of "crisis tools" I recommend installing on your Linux servers by default (if they aren't already), along with the (Ubuntu) package names that they come from: Package Provides Notes procps ps(1), vmstat(8), uptime(1), top(1) basic stats util-linux dmesg(1), lsblk(1), lscpu(1) system log, device info sysstat iostat(1), mpstat
O'Reilly
OCTOBER 22, 2024
I’m worried about AI. I’m not worried about it taking my job. I believe AI is a genuine productivity tool. By which I mean it can make developers produce more. The question is whether those developers are producing something good or not. The difference between an experienced developer and a junior is that an experienced developer knows: There’s more than one good solution to every problem.
Alex Russell
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
After weeks of confusion and intentional chaos, Apple's plan to kneecap the web has crept into view, menacing a PWApocalypse as the March 6th compliance deadline approaches for the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). The view from Cupertino. The DMA requires Apple to open the iPhone to competing app stores, and and its lopsided proposal for "enabling" them is getting most of the press.
InfoQ
MARCH 7, 2024
Uber replaced a legacy architecture built using the WAMP protocol with a new solution that takes advantage of GraphQL subscriptions. The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution.
Speed Curve
APRIL 14, 2024
I've been spending a lot of time looking at the performance of European sites lately, and have found that the consent management platforms (CMPs) are consistently creating a bit of a false reality for folks when trying to understand performance using synthetic monitoring. Admittedly, this is not a new topic, but I feel that it's important enough that it warrants another PSA.
DZone
MARCH 8, 2024
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly embracing multi-cloud environments and cloud-native architectures to drive innovation and deliver seamless customer experiences. However, the 2024 State of Observability report from Dynatrace reveals that the explosion of data generated by these complex ecosystems is pushing traditional monitoring and analytics approaches to their limits.
Dynatrace
OCTOBER 23, 2024
We’re excited to announce the first version of our new Distributed Tracing app, a part of the new Dynatrace user experience that leverages the full power of the Dynatrace platform. With the Distributed Tracing app, you can flexibly slice and dice raw trace data to understand what went wrong and why. Find what you’re looking for faster with: Enhanced charting and data visualization: Easily filter, group, search, and visualize trace data to gain deeper insights into your system’s behavior.
Smashing Magazine
APRIL 16, 2024
How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals How To Monitor And Optimize Google Core Web Vitals Matt Zeunert 2024-04-16T10:00:00+00:00 2024-04-16T12:05:36+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative has increased the attention website owners need to pay to user experience. You can now more easily see when users have poor experiences on your website, and poor UX also has a bigger impact on SEO.
The Netflix TechBlog
JULY 22, 2024
By Jun He , Natallia Dzenisenka , Praneeth Yenugutala , Yingyi Zhang , and Anjali Norwood TL;DR We are thrilled to announce that the Maestro source code is now open to the public! Please visit the Maestro GitHub repository to get started. If you find it useful, please give us a star. What is Maestro Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines.
All Things Distributed
JUNE 18, 2024
After a few code reviews from Rustaceans at Amazon and a bit of polishing, I'm ready to share the Distill CLI. An open-source tool written in Rust for summarizing meetings and other media that uses AWS services, such as S3, Transcribe, and Bedrock.
Percona
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
TL;DR Kubernetes was built for stateless apps, but as more stateful applications (like databases) run on it, operators include quite heavy implementations to Kubernetes workload management API (such as StatefulSets) deficits. While creating custom methods allows flexibility and faster time to market, it also leads to inconsistency and complexity.
Brendan Gregg
JULY 21, 2024
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code. Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology. Windows computers around the world encountered blue-screens-of-death and boot loops, causing outages for hospitals, airlines, banks, grocery stores, media br
O'Reilly
JANUARY 9, 2024
Kevlin Henney and I recently discussed whether automated code generation, using some future version of GitHub Copilot or the like, could ever replace higher-level languages. Specifically, could ChatGPT N (for large N) quit the game of generating code in a high-level language like Python, and produce executable machine code directly, like compilers do today?
Abstracta
JUNE 19, 2024
Learn how the latest version of the JMeter Correlation Recorder plugin can make correlating dynamic values easier and minimize errors in performance testing. The post JMeter Correlation Recorder 2.5: An Approach to the New Plugin Version appeared first on Blog about Software Development, Testing, and AI | Abstracta.
InfoQ
AUGUST 20, 2024
James Munro discusses ArcticDB and the practicalities of building a performant time-series datastore and why transactions, particularly the Isolation in ACID is just not worth it.
Speed Curve
JANUARY 15, 2024
I’m beyond excited to announce that I’m joining the SpeedCurve team this year! I’ll still be doing some consulting work, but I’ll be taking on a few less clients this year so I can focus on helping to make an already amazing performance tool even better, working alongside some of my favorite people in the performance community.
DZone
OCTOBER 8, 2024
In today's volatile economic landscape, enterprises are scrutinizing their cloud bills more than ever. Platform teams are at the forefront of this challenge, tasked with finding innovative ways to optimize usage and drive down costs. To gain insights into this evolving field, we spoke with Kapil Thangavelu , co-founder and CTO of Stacklet and the creator and lead maintainer of Cloud Custodian.
Dynatrace
MAY 6, 2024
Red Hat and Dynatrace are joining forces to revolutionize day One and day Two operations. A tight integration between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Dynatrace Davis ® AI, and the Dynatrace observability and security platform enables closed-loop remediation to automate the process from: Detecting a problem. Managing incidents in corresponding tools.
Addy Osmani
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Introducing AI Assistance in Chrome DevTools, a new feature that brings AI-powered coding assistance to the familiar Chrome DevTools environment.
The Netflix TechBlog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
By Jose Fernandez , Sebastien Dabdoub , Jason Koch , Artem Tkachuk The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix regularly investigate performance issues in our multi-tenant environment. The first step is determining whether the problem originates from the application or the underlying infrastructure. One issue that often complicates this process is the "noisy neighbor" problem.
All Things Distributed
MAY 8, 2024
My team and I set out to build a simple note taking aide, which transcribes and summarizes our meetings using Bedrock. Today, we’re making the proof of concept available to everyone.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
317 
Let's personalize your content