Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. This type of monitoring tracks metrics and insights on server CPU, memory, and network health, as well as hosts, containers, and serverless functions.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. FaaS drills down even deeper to scale specific aspects of storage, compute, or other services.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes. The number and variety of applications, network devices, serverless functions, and ephemeral containers grows continuously. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount. Imagine a bustling city with a network of well-coordinated traffic signals; RabbitMQ ensures that messages (traffic) flow smoothly from producers to consumers, navigating through various routes without congestion.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

They can also develop proactive security measures capable of stopping threats before they breach network defenses. For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

All this is easier said than done because: Kubernetes-based dynamic architecture is becoming the norm. Collecting logs that aren’t relevant to their business case creates noise, overloads congested networks, and slows down teams. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work. Try it out yourself.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Heterogeneous cloud-native microservice architectures can lead to visibility gaps in distributed traces. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2025

As an executive, I am always seeking simplicity and efficiency to make sure the architecture of the business is as streamlined as possible. Simplify data ingestion and up-level storage for better, faster querying : With Dynatrace, petabytes of data are always hot for real-time insights, at a cold cost.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

But managing the deployment, modification, networking, and scaling of multiple containers can quickly outstrip the capabilities of development and operations teams. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. How does container orchestration work?

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

Today’s digital businesses run on heterogeneous and highly dynamic architectures with interconnected applications and microservices deployed via Kubernetes and other cloud-native platforms. Common questions include: Where do bottlenecks occur in our architecture? Dynatrace news. How can we optimize for performance and scalability?

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. Additionally, they manage applications and services deployed on the network and provide secure access to authorized users.

Artificial Intelligence 246

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. For such workloads, shared-nothing architectures beget high cost, inflexibility, poor performance, and inefficiency, which hurts production applications and cluster deployments. joins) during query processing. Disaggregation (or not).

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast to modern software architecture, which uses distributed microservices, organizations historically structured their applications in a pattern known as “monolithic.” Modern cloud-native architectures leverage a completely different development paradigm compared to monolithic applications. Centralized applications.

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” VFX studios of varying sizes and locations can leverage these solutions to meet the unique rendering needs of their productions.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2020

One key requirement of a microservices architecture is the ability to make information of all kinds available wherever and whenever it’s needed, without putting undue traffic on corporate and public networks. Synchronous storage size. Async storage size. Storage read size rate. Storage read count rate.

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Storage Metrics Java Architecture 182

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. This increases the cores and network bandwidth available to serve common requests.

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Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In previous blog posts, we introduced the Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer and the Data Gateway Platform , both of which are integral to Netflix’s data architecture. Storage Layer The storage layer for TimeSeries comprises a primary data store and an optional index data store.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For example, if one of your customers unexpectedly uploaded a 1 GB file instead of a 1 MB file, was there an error with the buffer overflowing, or was the network stack unable to handle the unexpected load? With Dynatrace, there is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage concepts.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. With the self-service features and an everything-as-code architecture, labor requirements will significantly decrease and SRE best practices will emerge.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 246

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

By bringing computation closer to the data source, edge-based deployments reduce latency, enhance real-time capabilities, and optimize network bandwidth. Data Overload and Storage Limitations As IoT and especially industrial IoT -based devices proliferate, the volume of data generated at the edge has skyrocketed.

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IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most AI today uses association-based machine learning models like neural networks that find correlations and make predictions based on them. Data lakehouses combine a data lake’s flexible storage with a data warehouse’s fast performance. However, correlation does not imply causation.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

In short, over the last several months, we’ve completely rebuilt the architecture of the OneAgent installer for Windows. Smaller network and Dynatrace cluster storage footprint. Improved OneAgent installation reliability for hardened Windows settings. exe installer size from ~90 MB to ~75 MB.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

s architecture and underlying platform are also optimized to deliver high performance for data warehousing workloads. Redshift has a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, which enables it to distribute and parallelize queries across multiple low cost nodes. Amazon Redshiftâ??s Amazon Redshiftâ??s Parallelism isnâ??t

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Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 152

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because Google offers its own Google Cloud Architecture Framework and Microsoft its Azure Well-Architected Framework , organizations that use a combination of these platforms triple the challenge of integrating their performance frameworks into a cohesive strategy. SRG validates the status of the resiliency SLOs for the experiment period.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

They were focused on getting Netflix onto TV sets, and thought the screen was too small, the time people would spend watching was too short, and there wasnt enough mobile network bandwidth. We currently have four of them around the house and I still have my day 1 iPad in storage somewhere. I use mine most days to watch videos.

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C++ Mobile Hardware Java 88

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services. Many AWS services and third party solutions use AWS S3 for log storage.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The original assumptions and architectural choices were no longer viable. Overview The figure below depicts a simplified high-level architecture of a single Titus cluster (a.k.a When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. Another interesting experiment here compared the effects on performance of different storage types. VLDB’19.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Some time ago, we decided to take a stab at a number of architectural challenges present in the OneAgent installer for Windows. Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution. Dynatrace news.

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Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 153