Scaling a monitoring infrastructure for the Akamai network

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 20-26

  Repantis, Thomas ^a   Smith, Scott ^b   Cohen, Jeff ^a   Wein, Joel ^a  

^a AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Clustrix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed databases; Distributed systems; Monitoring; Scalability; Stream processing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING PLATFORM; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; DISTRIBUTED PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MONITORING SYSTEM; REAL-TIME ACCESS; STREAM PROCESSING;

AUTOMATION; HYDRAULICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY;

MONITORING;

EID: 77958149684     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1842733.1842737     Document Type: Article

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