The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Using simple lookup indices in Cassandra gives us the ability to maintain acceptable read latencies while doing heavy writes.

Infrastructure 235

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 235

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 124

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 124

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 124

Internet Internet AWS Performance 124

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Depending on how much dynamic data you have, you might be able to "outsource" some part of the content to a static site generator , pushing it to a CDN and serving a static version from it, thus avoiding database requests.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104