The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized. In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder.

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Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 9, 2023. was made available on January 23, 2023. was released on January 23, 2023. was made available on January 23, 2023. was released on January 11, 2023. was released on January 23, 2023. Take a look!

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn't exist yet.

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Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since November 13, 2023. On November 27, 2023, Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 Take a look.

Open Source 110

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Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since April 24, 2023. On May 2, 2023, Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37 (PMM) was released. was released on May 4, 2023. 14 On May 4, 2023, Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.17-14 14 On May 4, 2023, Percona Server for MongoDB 5.0.17-14

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 27, 2023. was released on March 27, 2023. Release highlights include: Added a new extension pgpool – a middleware between PostgreSQL server and client for high availability, connection pooling, and load balancing. Take a look!

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application. This way, disruptions are minimized, MTTR is significantly decreased, and DevSecOps and SREs collaborate efficiently to boost productivity.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since April 10, 2023. 24 was released on April 18, 2023. Our free, open source, enterprise-grade solution includes the high availability and security features your business requires to meet your customer expectations and business goals. Take a look!

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

The MOVEit vulnerability is a critical SQL injection flaw in the web application MOVEit Transfer , which MITRE published as CVE-2023-34362 on May 31, 2023. On June 6, 2023, the ransomware gang Cl0p claimed responsibility for exploiting the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability starting on May 27, 2023, during the U.S.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since May 29, 2023. On June 5, 2023, we released Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37.1 , which includes a critical CVE fix. We have identified and fixed CVE-2023-34409: PMM-12182 : PMM authentication bypass vulnerability. was released on June 5, 2023.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination. At the same time, the common goal is to save both the network bandwidth and storage space (cost savings!) zst 2023-02-07T19:33:58.138+0100 writing db2.products people 16.0MB 2023-02-08T00:42:43.217+0100 db2.products

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report found that 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. Application performance monitoring Application performance monitoring tracks the availability and performance of applications in the field. 54% reported deploying updates every two hours or less.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

According to the 2023 Dynatrace CIO Report , 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% availability.

Latency 245

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Snapshot backup/restore Technical Preview As already promised during Percona Live 2023, it’s my pleasure to deliver on that promise.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments.

Open Source 246

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the below query, we’re specifically searching for pending deposit transactions greater than $8,000 that occurred between 10:00:04 AM and 12:00:00 AM on August 21, 2023. This type of insight enables you to proactively manage liquidity, ensure sufficient funds are available, and make informed decisions about resource allocation.

Database 290

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

33: Sun Mar 26 08:35:59 2022 (size 8 KB) file-size: 8 KB, checkpoint-size: 4 KB offset, size, checksum root : 8192, 4096, 3824871989 (0xe3faea35) alloc: 12288, 4096, 4074814944 (0xf2e0bde0) discard : 0, 0, 0 (0) available : 0, 0, 0 (0) WiredTigerCheckpoint.34: . $ wt list -c WiredTigerCheckpoint.33:

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

First, let’s try streaming copy from mysql57 to mysql8 server as this does not need additional storage. 23) initializing of server in progress as process 6660 2023-03-01T02:38:23.939215Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started. Prepare the backup on MySQL 8 with Percona XtraBackup 8.0, for this database.

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Percona

JUNE 29, 2023

There are other options available too when using commitQuorum: “Voting Members” – This is the default behavior when an index will be created on all data-bearing voting replica set members (Default). Below is the command used to create an index using commitQuorum as the majority : db.getSiblingDB("acme").products.createIndex({

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Our goal was to filter for metrics that deliver the data we need while minimizing storage costs.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. What is an open source database?

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Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dynamic WiredTiger tickets As a brief recap, WiredTiger tickets in MongoDB serve as the concurrency control mechanism within the WiredTiger storage engine. available only for Atlas users) , that can not be modified anymore; That change was then introduced to 7.0. Without further ado, let’s get started. After the rapid release 6.2

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

According to the 2023 Dynatrace CIO Report , 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. These organizations rely heavily on performance, availability, and user satisfaction to drive sales and retain customers. Availability is typically expressed in 9’s, such as 99.9%. or 99.99% availability.

Traffic 173

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Throughout this evolution, we’ve been able to maintain high availability and a consistent message delivery rate, with Pushy successfully maintaining 99.999% reliability for message delivery over the last few months. When our partners want to deliver a message to a device, it’s our job to make sure they can do so.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, its modern architecture delivers cost-effective storage and compute. As a result, teams benefit from low-cost cloud storage that provides access to all data and doesn’t require data rehydration.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). MongoDB replica sets enable data redundancy and automatic failover, setting the stage (there’s that term again) for high availability. For starters, MongoDB Community lacks the advanced security features available in MongoDB Enterprise. It ranks No.

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

the ability to take physical backups , in addition to logical ones, has been made Generally Available. In March 2023, we discovered an issue with physical backups, which, under certain conditions, can cause the restore to fail ( PBM-1058 ). The available workarounds. includes this fix and was released on March 23, 2023.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Data storage limitations Today’s traditional monitoring tools often involve a tradeoff between storing much of the available observability, security, and business data—which is costly—and determining which data to store upfront. Four factors limit the quality and trustworthiness of traditional approaches to cloud monitoring.

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Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

It is a good practice to compress the backups to save costs on storage and to encrypt the backups so those can’t be used if the files are compromised as long as you keep your encryption keys safe! ibd.qp.xbcrypt 2023-04-21T00:27:14.875316-00:00 24 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] Compressing and encrypting. dbxxxx/tb1.ibd

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Building observability-as-code into platform engineering enables automatic service-level objective creation, defined ownership, enriched context, and problem routing to ensure platforms remain available and reliable for developers. In 2023, organizations mostly used these services as a technology disruptor and capability enabler.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

sec) percona labs > select * from herc; + -+ + + --+ | id | name | c_time | active | + -+ + + --+ | 1 | ab | 2023-08-19 01:28:32 | 1 | | 2 | cd | 2023-08-19 01:28:36 | 1 | | 3 | ef | 2023-08-19 01:28:39 | 1 | | 4 | gh | 2023-08-19 01:28:42 | 1 | | 5 | ij | 2023-08-19 01:28:45 | 1 | + -+ + + --+ 5 rows in set (0.00

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As we at Percona wind down 2023 and look into what the next year holds, our attention is drawn to the cloud-native landscape and how it is maturing, growing, and evolving. KubeCon NA 2023 recap The theme for KubeCon NA was very clear — AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

PostgreSQL Partition Manager — ‘pg_partman’ — is an open source extension freely available, widely supported, and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. pg_partman creates and manages both time-based and serial-based table partition sets.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. Note that Backup for POM PS is available only on demand, given the solution is still in technical preview.

Traffic 144

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). Craig Kerstiens, crunchydata, August 2023 ) That evolution has created lots of reasons for its expanding popularity. How-to documentation is readily available.

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