The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Upcoming Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 December 2020. Windows: Windows Server 1809. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 January 2021. Windows: Windows Server 2008. Added support for Go 1.15

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Current Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 August 2020. Windows: Windows Server 2008. Upcoming Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 November 2020. OpenJDK 12.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

set-server. set-system-logs-access-enabled. Upcoming Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 April 2020. Windows: Windows Server 1709. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2020. Deprecated parameters.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments (). License Includedâ??

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Adrian Cockcroft

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Fujitsu used SPARC for everything from servers to embedded systems like cameras for a long time. Another reason is that most of the SPARC ecosystem was built around Solaris, rather than Linux, and the failure of Sun to survive and the replacement of Solaris by Linux based systems vendors took SPARC down with it.

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Architecture Mobile Design Government 96

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. Jack: Since our launch in late 2008, weve grown to over 6 million teachers and students globally primarily through word of mouth of teachers who have shared Edmodo with each other. Comments ().

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Here are a few ways you can scale down and save: Audit your systems: Auditing your system for unused servers and eliminating those servers can reduce your cloud spend. If needed, you can spin up a backup.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Server Agent alerts. I always check backups first when looking at a new system. Statistics.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 22, 2016

Prior to SQL Server 2016 the trace flag –T8048 is used to upgrade (only) NUMA partitioned, CMemThread objects to CPU partitioned based objects. Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Instead the design of CMemThread was updated.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 26, 2018

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Powering the virtual instances and other resources that make up the AWS Cloud are real physical data centers with AWS servers in them.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. The optimizer chooses this plan without any hints on my system configuration because the estimated cost of the plan is below the cost threshold for parallelism.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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SQL Performance

MARCH 15, 2021

In my last post , I illustrated one reason you should stop using deprecated system tables like sysprocesses. Since SQL Server 2012 (and, to a much lesser extent, since SQL Server 2008), the most complete and flexible solution for monitoring events on a SQL Server instance has been Extended Events.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The images from the 2008 TNW Conference have travelled around the world in my Animoto demo: This year TNW is showing that it is not just a conference for talkers but also for builders by organizing a massive Hackaton in the two days running up to the conference.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

My goal is to resolve mysteries about SQL Server I encounter but do this without going straight the source code first. The first case that helped me start this journey was asked by a MVP within the SQL Server community (his first name starts with Joey<g>). The question went something like this….

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2020

In a recent tip , I described a scenario where a SQL Server 2016 instance seemed to be struggling with checkpoint times. I was a bit perplexed by this issue, since the system was certainly no slouch — plenty of cores, 3TB of memory, and XtremIO storage. How It Works: When is the FlushCache message added to SQL Server Error Log?

C++ 58

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 19, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Here are the laurels given by the editors: Debuting in November 2008, Amazons entry into the CDN market quickly became a major player. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. All Things Distributed. Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editors pick.

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Media AWS Storage Big Data 60

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

Table-valued parameters have been around since SQL Server 2008 and provide a useful mechanism for sending multiple rows of data to SQL Server, brought together as a single parameterized call. The DataTable can be created multiple ways in the.NET code, but a common way to create the table is something like the following: System.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I happen to be using SQL Server 2019 CU16 but the details I’ll describe haven’t materially changed since partition level lock escalation was added to SQL Server 2008. The SQL Server lock manager keeps track of the number of locks held by the current transaction. Testing environment. This seems like an oversight.

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Database Testing Storage Servers 98

SQL Performance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

There are multiple methods to look at poorly performing queries in SQL Server, notably Query Store, Extended Events, and dynamic management views (DMVs). ORDER BY ExecutionCount DESC ; Note: The sys.dm_exec_function_stats DMV was added in SQL Server 2016. Each option has pros and cons. query_hash AS [ query_hash ] , qs.

C++ 74

C++ Database Servers Tuning 74

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

Open Source 52

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I immediately saw that CcmExec.exe (part of Microsoft’s System Management Server ) had 508,000 handles open, which is both a lot and also amazingly close to my zombie count. I work on the Windows version of Chrome, and one of my tasks is optimizing its build system, which requires doing a lot of test builds.

Processing 72

Processing Programming Code Systems 72

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The underlying bug is that if a program writes a PE file (EXE or DLL) using memory mapped file I/O and if that program is then immediately executed (or loaded with LoadLibrary or LoadLibraryEx), and if the system is under very heavy disk I/O load, then a necessary file-buffer flush may fail.

Programming 79

Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

The DTU calculator is a free tool you can use to upload performance metrics from your server, and use the data to determine the appropriate service tier if you were to migrate that server to an Azure SQL Database (or to a SQL Database elastic pool ). The default is -1, which means copy all watched SQL Servers.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Wikipedia states that in a 2008 report, open-source projects were able to save over USD 60 billion for the customers. Although remember that not every project on GitHub is open-source as it serves as a version control system repository. Reach out to our Discord server if you’d like some help! Join Discord.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Using SQL Server’s SNITrace to Troubleshoot Networking Issues In the process of tracking down a few TCP 10054 issues (highlighted here: ​​ [link] ) I ​​ also ​​ used ​​ the ​​ SNITrace ​​ (SNI Trace) ​​ capabilities.

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Network Servers Processing Software Engineering 40