Daniel Bryant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It’s on the hot path of every user request, and because of this, it needs to be performant, secure, and easily configurable. Most successful organizations base their goals on improving some or all of the DORA or Accelerate metrics. You want to maximize your deployment frequency while minimizing the other metrics.

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The Citus Data

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

PostgreSQL 16 has introduced a new feature for load balancing multiple servers with libpq, that lets you specify a connection parameter called load_balance_hosts. You can use query-from-any-node to scale query throughput, by load balancing connections across the nodes. Postgres 16 support in Citus 12.1

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? If a solution is cheap, it is probably not very performant or particularly reliable. Resiliency.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Load balancer – Another option is to use a load balancer that exposes an HTTPS endpoint and routes the request to the orchestrator. You can use AWS services such as Application Load Balancer to implement this approach. Refer to Perform AI prompt-chaining with Amazon Bedrock for more details.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 21, 2023

The Kong API Gateway is highly performant and offers the following features: Request/Response Transformation : Kong can transform incoming and outgoing API requests and responses to conform to specific formats. Monitoring and Logging : Kong offers detailed metrics and logs to help monitor API performance and identify issues.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Get the latest on the Hive RaaS threat; the importance of metrics and risk analysis; cloud security’s top threats; supply chain security advice for software buyers; and more! . But to truly map cybersecurity efforts to business objectives, you’ll need what CompTIA calls “an organizational risk approach to metrics.”.

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Datavail

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As an administrator or developer working with Cassandra, understanding node management is crucial for ensuring the performance, scalability, and resilience of your database cluster. Similarly, when removing a node, data must be rebalanced across the remaining nodes to maintain optimal performance and fault tolerance.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 1, 2023

In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io This also adds the blue lines, which denote metrics data. The metrics are periodically emitted from applications that don’t contribute to traces, such as a database. and show up in charts.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 24, 2024

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon using a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.

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Perficient

JULY 31, 2024

Elastic Beanstalk handles the provisioning of resources such as EC2 instances, load balancers, and databases, allowing developers to focus on their application’s code. The service auto-configures capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring details. Click on deploy.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The report also identified logs generated by NGINX proxy software (38%) as being the most common type of log, followed by Syslog (25%) and Amazon Load Balancer […]. New Relic today shared a report based on anonymized data it collects that showed a 35% increase in the volume of logging data collected by its observability platform.

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Cloudera

JUNE 17, 2022

Which load balancer should you pick and how should it be configured? Figure 1: CDF-PC takes care of everything you need to provide stable, secure, scalable endpoints including load balancers, DNS entries, certificates and NiFi configuration. Who manages certificates and configures the source system and NiFi correctly?

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Kentik

APRIL 16, 2023

CTOs and other umbrella decision-makers recognize that software and network engineers must work together to deliver secure and performant applications. Having an expert perspective on network protocols helps ensure data will be moved securely and with network performance in mind.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 23, 2024

One of the key differences between the approach in this post and the previous one is that here, the Application Load Balancers (ALBs) are private, so the only element exposed directly to the Internet is the Global Accelerator and its Edge locations. These steps are clearly marked in the following diagram.

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2023

They want a rock-solid, reliable, stable network that doesn’t keep them awake at night and ensures great application performance. These are all examples of instability with our network and its adverse effects on application performance. The answer is simple. So how do we get there? But notice all of these examples start with “why.”

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A part of the “service level” family , an SLO is a reliability target (for example, “99%”) driven by an SLI (which is a metric like “requests completed without error”) that organizations use to ensure user experiences are smooth and customer contracts are being met. Can we express this in clear language with common-sense metrics?

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Perficient

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Scalability Demands As the volume of data grows, the systems have to handle & manage the data without compromising on performance. PySpark helps in performing fast distributed transformations on large data sets. Data Analytics Amazon Redshift stores the enriched data, which facilitates high-performance analytics and querying.

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Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

In this article, I will provide some background on different types of telemetry, discuss key network performance signals, and highlight ways network specialists can leverage this device telemetry in their network observability efforts. Still, it holds immense value for operators making cost, performance, and reliability decisions.

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Perficient

JULY 20, 2023

Elastic Load Balancing: Implementing Elastic Load Balancing services in your cloud architecture ensures that incoming traffic is distributed efficiently across multiple instances. Upsizing or downsizing instances can significantly impact cost savings without sacrificing performance.

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Datavail

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Once the decommissioning process is finished, stop the Cassandra service on the node: Restart the Cassandra service on the remaining nodes in the cluster to ensure data redistribution and replication: Load Balancing Cassandra employs a token-based partitioning strategy, where data is distributed across nodes based on a token value.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2023

Therefore, by looking at the interactions between the application and the kernel, we can learn almost everything we want to know about application performance, including local network activity. This is a simple example, but eBPF bytecode can perform much more complex operations. First, eBPF is fast and performant.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Common monitoring metrics are latency, packet loss, and jitter. But these metrics usually are at an individual service level, like a particular internet gateway or load balancer. The outcome of having metrics and logging at the service level is the difficulty of tracing through the system.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 28, 2022

As your traffic rises and falls, you can set up auto-scaling on a specific metric (e.g., Therefore, you can bring the number of containers up or down in response to fluctuations in the selected metric. Load balancer (EC2 feature) . We can configure the load balancer and its target groups in EC2 load balancing options.

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Honeycomb

JUNE 22, 2022

Debugging application performance in Azure AppService is something that’s quite difficult using Azure’s built-in services (like Application Insights). This is supplemental to the awesome post by Brian Langbecker on using Honeycomb to investigate the Application Load Balancers (ALB) Status Codes in AWS. AppService logging.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is a system and process that helps build confidence in cloud-native applications by providing visibility into how they perform in all components, not just one or two. For example, developers can use observability to determine when an application performance issue occurs and pinpoint specific areas of code or instances where it happens.

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CircleCI

MARCH 22, 2021

However, to make the best use of network performance and work distribution, you may need to optimize your application code — and potentially re-architect the application (though doing so makes further scaling easier). In the deployment phase, you can still run regression tests — for example, to verify performance in a stress test.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The majority of things that would cause this to fire are better monitored via specific localized metrics (number of healthy instances in a load balancer) or SLOs to measure real user experience. Ingest Azure Front Door metrics and trigger based on whether the backend is healthy.

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Perficient

MARCH 29, 2023

Availability ECE provides features such as automatic failover and load balancing, which can help ensure high availability and minimize downtime. You need to provide your own load balancing solution.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

And it supports like an extensible set of metric services and judges and cloud platforms and everything else. And then hopefully all of those things are publishing metrics somewhere. Hopefully you’re publishing metrics. Those metrics have to be tagged in some way that you can tease them apart later.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 30, 2024

Instead, Vitech opted for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), in which the LLM can use vector embeddings to perform a semantic search and provide a more relevant answer to users when interacting with the chatbot. Additionally, Vitech uses Amazon Bedrock runtime metrics to measure latency, performance, and number of tokens. “We

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Cloudera

JANUARY 31, 2024

Replication is a crucial capability in distributed systems to address challenges related to fault tolerance, high availability, load balancing, scalability, data locality, network efficiency, and data durability. SRM replicates data at high performance and keeps topic properties in sync across clusters.

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Progress

JANUARY 2, 2020

All the tools are there too to sustain and consistently improve performance because, hey, we’re all in it for the long run. Identify performance bottlenecks? Address and resolve issues and optimize your project for stellar performance? Last time around, we looked at the infrastructure and systems behind Sitefinity Cloud.

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Progress

JANUARY 2, 2020

All the tools are there too to sustain and consistently improve performance because, hey, we’re all in it for the long run. Identify performance bottlenecks? Address and resolve issues and optimize your project for stellar performance? Last time around, we looked at the infrastructure and systems behind Sitefinity Cloud.

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Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. How capacity planning benefits your network performance. Measure and analyze traffic metrics to establish performance and capacity baselines for future bandwidth consumption.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

On May 27 of this year, Gartner Research Director Sanjit Ganguli released a research note titled “Network Performance Monitoring Tools Leave Gaps in Cloud Monitoring.” In the new cloud reality, when you have an application performance problem that is impacting user experience you can’t easily tell if it’s the network or not.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The primary hosting pattern to migrate was a.NET application running on a Windows instance behind a load balancer. In AWS, we use SSM documents written in PowerShell to define the steps to install agents, configure IIS, and perform other machine configuration prior to installing application code. IMO end-to-end provisioning. .

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Codegiant

JUNE 4, 2024

Automated Scaling: It adjusts the number of running instances based on resource usage or custom metrics. Service Discovery and Load Balancing: Kubernetes facilitates seamless communication between containers and distributes traffic for optimal performance. Kubernetes Services enable networking within a Kubernetes cluster.

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