All Things Distributed

JULY 4, 2019

This week, the developers of Amazon Aurora have won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award.

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Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

With MongoDB deployments, failovers aren’t considered major events as they were with traditional database management systems. 1305:12 @(shell):1:1 2019-04-18T19:44:42.261+0530 I NETWORK [thread1] trying reconnect to SG-example-1.servers.mongodirector.com:27017 Testing Failover Behavior. 185:1 rs.stepDown@src/mongo/shell/utils.js:1305:12

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 8, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. I've also been working on Systems Performance 2nd Edition, now that the [BPF book] is done. At LISA I also ran a BPF performance tools workshop with over 200 attendees.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. November 2019 was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Fall 2019 By Tom Richards , Carenina Garcia Motion , and Leslie Posada Hack Day at Netflix is an opportunity to build and show off a feature, tool, or quirky app. November 2019 was originally published in Netflix TechBlog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For system administrators, operations engineers, and others with strong systems and software backgrounds, there’s perhaps no better time than the present to transition into DevOps. As of August 2019, there are currently over 50,000 LinkedIn DevOps job listings in the United States alone.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

Read on to find out which is the best MongoDB GUI for you, updated for 2019, that contain these key features: A good visual editor to write and edit queries faster. This cross-platform system lets you enter your queries easily in many formats. We’ll be focusing on data visualization, presentation, and editing.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2020

Eight years ago I wrote _Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud_ (aka the "sysperf" book) on the performance of computing systems, and this year I'm excited to be releasing the second edition. A year ago I announced [BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability].

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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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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Comparison Overview.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 2, 2019

From the customer side, this has been the limit of what can be done*, until SQL Server 2019. The latest adaptation by the SQL Server team is moving the system tables (metadata) for tempdb to In-Memory OLTP (aka memory-optimized). Now that 2019 CTP 3.2 Now that 2019 CTP 3.2 I have SQL Server 2019 CTP 3.2

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Dynatrace third-party vulnerabilities solution provides key capabilities for detailed and continuous insights into vulnerable software components present in an IT system. Prioritize CVEs Figure 6 shows the vulnerable functions that are in use for CVE-2019-0232. , an RCE vulnerability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How viewers are able to watch their favorite show on Netflix while the infrastructure self-recovers from a system failure By Manuel Correa , Arthur Gonigberg , and Daniel West Getting stuck in traffic is one of the most frustrating experiences for drivers around the world. Logs and background requests are examples of this type of traffic.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT. Editor’s note: Sophia was one of the recipients of the Best Paper Award at MICRO 2019.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2023

“In 2019, we actually recognized a few gaps in our previous monitoring solution.” For example, most monitoring solutions are deployed piecemeal or simply don’t support integration with other critical systems. Recently, the university adopted Dynatrace to help monitor its applications.

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O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Gregor Hohpe explains how software architects can use what they know about technical systems to help refactor organizations. Stuart Halloway explains how to augment agility with principles for designing systems. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. Architecting IT transformation.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 16, 2019

It's HighScalability time: Asteroids in our solar system. 001% chance a kilometer-size asteroid destroys humanity. Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd love your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days?

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Scalegrid

JUNE 6, 2019

June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. PALO ALTO, Calif., The demand for Redis is skyrocketing across dozens of use cases, particularly for cache, queues, geospatial data, and high speed transactions.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Smalltalk group is astonishingly insular, almost childlike, but is just now opening up, looking at other systems with open-eyed curiosity and fascination. George Dyson : The next revolution will be the rise of analog systems that can no longer be mastered by digital programming.

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Internet Internet Scalability Games 29

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Distributed tracing describes the act of following a transaction through all participating applications (tiers) and sub-systems, such as databases. All systems that support distributed tracing use some identifiers, the trace context, that is passed along with the transaction. Distributed tracing. W3C Trace Context.

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High Scalability

MARCH 8, 2019

There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card. All of the heavy-lifting infrastructure was already in place for it. There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

According to the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web application attacks were the number one type of attack. The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. million Americans, 15.2

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2019-09-30. The vendor has de-supported this technology and version with 2019-09-30. Current Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 August 2020. Upcoming Operating systems support changes.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? We achieve 5.5

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

Having released this functionality in a Preview Release back in May 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our SAP ABAP monitoring extension. SAP estimates that 80% of all worldwide business transactions touch SAP systems in some form. Dynatrace news. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace?

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration.

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2019

And the last thing you want to do with synthetic is introduce false positives (the bane of all synthetic testing) into the system, and yet this was happening too often. But I’m not sure that’s a real issue in 2019. When a data center had issues, or a box has issues, our customers had issues.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 13, 2019

Michael Feathers explores various scaling strategies in light of research about human cognition and systems cohesion. Watch " From the trenches with Rebecca Parsons ". --> Continue reading Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in San Jose 2019. Watch " Next Architecture ". Choices of scale.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. Harden the host operating system.

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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From identifying their operating system, platform, and browser, to trying to guide them—invisibly!—through send ( ' Forbidden: Invalid Referer ' ); } Clear-Site-Data for Developers This isn’t the first time I’ve written about Clear-Site-Data —I mentioned it briefly in my 2019 article all about setting the correct caching headers.

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Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

These two papers provide many more insights: Automated system performance testing at MongoDB , DBTest 2020 [ Video ]. The Use of Change Point Detection to Identify Software Performance Regressions in a Continuous Integration System , ICPE 2020 [ Video ]. One of most important issues in continuous performance testing is variability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. It runs a wide variety of workloads from various parts of the company?—?everything

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2019

Bug bounties are commonly seen as the most effective and inexpensive way to identify vulnerabilities in live systems and products. We kicked off our program in April 2019, we’ll continue to operate in private mode for the better part of 2019. Why does it matter to me as a customer?

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