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Network Emulation. Bringing real-world conditions to the test environment

The Network Emulation is a relevant technology when making tests related to the behaviour of our platform. Let’s look at these situations: All these situations are part of the day-to-day work of the IT managers and all are responded to by developing the necessary tests. However, when we propose to do these tests, two options arise: simulation and emulation of networks. These are two concepts that are often used interchangeably but are actually very different.

Network Management in a Nutshell for MSPs

Let’s be honest: Network management is a big responsibility. It includes monitoring and controlling a computer network to ensure all of its resources—both hardware and software—are in good shape and are being used productively. And if you’re not a network expert (or don’t have one on your payroll), that probably sounds pretty intimidating. But there’s no time like the present to tackle the topic of network management head on.

Datadog Network Performance Monitoring

You can now analyze and map network traffic between teams, services, data centers, security groups, or any other subset of your environment. Visualize high-level traffic flows, and drill down in a few clicks to granular details about individual components or services. Network Performance Monitoring is fully integrated with the rest of Datadog, so you can seamlessly pivot to correlated metrics, request traces, and logs for troubleshooting.

Dash 2019: Guide to Datadog's newest announcements

At Dash 2019, we are excited to share a number of new products and features on the Datadog platform. With the addition of Network Performance Monitoring, Real User Monitoring, support for collecting browser logs, and single-pane-of-glass visibility for serverless environments, Datadog now provides even broader coverage of the modern application stack, from frontend to backend.

Introducing Datadog Network Performance Monitoring

Network Performance Monitoring is currently available in private beta. Request access here. Your applications and infrastructure components rely on one another in an increasingly complex fabric, regardless of whether you run a monolithic application or microservices, and whether you deploy to cloud infrastructure, private data centers, or both.

A new HQ for PerfOps - Our office

PerfOps began as a fully remote company with team members located all over the world. It allowed us to hire fast and move fast. But as the team grew the effective communication became a problem, especially because of the complexity of the products we are building. Now as we need to grow even faster it became apparent that to do that we need all team-members working and interacting in the same office.

PerfOps FlexBalancer Raw Logs

Our latest product release contains plenty of new features, so we decided to list the major ones that our users will find most exciting. We now make it even simpler to debug your load-balancing by providing access to raw logs for FlexBalancer. All requests hitting our backend are now logged and available for analysis by our customers directly on the Analytics page. When you setup complex load-balancing rules it could be hard to understand how it will perform in some rare use-cases.

Why does CUBIC take us back to TCP congestion control?

TCP congestion control is a fundamental part of this protocol and over the years has undergone a process of constant improvement through the generation of different versions, such as TCP Tahoe, Reno, Vegas, and so on. The case of the TCP CUBIC version, which has been the default congestion control applied by Linux/Unix systems.