Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture By: VarunKhaitan With special thanks to my stunning colleagues: Mallika Rao , Esmir Mesic , HugoMarques This blog post is a continuation of Part 2 , where we cleared the ambiguity around title launch observability at Netflix. The response schema for the observability endpoint.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

For forensic log analytics use cases, the Security Investigator app benefits from the scalability and analytics power of Dynatrace Grail. The Grail architecture ensures scalability, making log data accessible for detailed analysis regardless of volume.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

RabbitMQ is a powerful and widely used message broker that facilitates communication between distributed applications by handling the transmission, storage, and delivery of messages. Queues play a critical role in RabbitMQ’s architecture, enabling asynchronous communication and decoupling the producers and consumers.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. How does function as a service affect scalability?

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity. Sending and receiving messages from other users.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges. This decoupling is crucial in modern architectures where scalability and fault tolerance are paramount.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

While we were able to put out the immediate fire by disabling the newly created alerts, this incident raised some critical concerns around the scalability of our alerting system. It became clear to us that we needed to solve the scalability problem with a fundamentally different approach. OK, Results?

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After selecting a mode, users can interact with APIs without needing to worry about the underlying storage mechanisms and counting methods. Let’s examine some of the drawbacks of this approach: Lack of Idempotency : There is no idempotency key baked into the storage data-model preventing users from safely retrying requests.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Stop worrying about log data ingest and storage — start creating value instead. Limited data availability constrains value creation.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasing an organization’s DevOps maturity is a key goal as teams adopt more cloud-native technologies, which simultaneously makes their environments more scalable and feature-rich but also more complex. Research has found that 99% of organizations have embraced a multicloud architecture.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Logs highlight observability challenges Ingesting, storing, and processing the unprecedented explosion of data from sources such as software as a service, multicloud environments, containers, and serverless architectures can be overwhelming for today’s organizations. Seamless integration.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Cloud storage monitoring. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. Multicloud architectures, on the other hand, blend services from two or more private or public clouds — or from a combination of public, private, and edge clouds.

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InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The rise of cloud-native microservice architectures further exacerbates this change. Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. All data is readily accessible without storage tiers, such as costly solid-state drives (SSDs).

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DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. The workload could refer to anything from an increase in users, storage, or a number of transactions.

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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? How can we optimize for performance and scalability?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure. Dehydrated data has been compressed or otherwise altered for storage in a data warehouse. Observability starts with the collection, storage, and accessibility of multiple sources.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. They are particularly important in distributed systems, such as microservices architectures. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

JoeEmison : Another thing that serverless architectures change: how do you software development. The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy. Domain Specific Architectures are getting 20x and 40x improvements, not just 5-10%. Hungry for more?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

A traditional log management solution uses an often manual and siloed approach, which limits scalability and ultimately hinders organizational innovation. These solutions often provide better scalability and performance than on-premises solutions, while still providing broad infrastructure coverage. Reduce costs and inefficiencies.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

In the future posts, we will do an architectural deep dive into the several components of Netflix Drive. Netflix Drive aims to solve this problem of exposing different namespaces and attaching appropriate access control to help build a scalable, performant, globally distributed platform for storing and retrieving pertinent assets.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This article will help you understand the core differences in data structure, scalability, and use cases. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered. Diverging from MySQLs methodology, MongoDB employs an architecture without fixed schemas.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. In summary, this model was a tightly-coupled application-to-data architecture, where machine learning algos were mixed with the backend and UI/UX software code stack.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Buckets are similar to folders, a physical storage location. Debug-level logs, which also generate high volumes and have a shorter lifespan or value period than other logs, could similarly benefit from dedicated storage. Suppose a single Grail environment is central storage for pre-production and production systems.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2016

If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications. Mobile Backend Serverless Reference Architecture. Real-time File Processing Serverless Reference Architecture. IoT Backend Serverless Reference Architecture.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform. Redis is an in-memory key-value store and cache that simplifies processing, storage, and interaction with data in Kubernetes environments. The different infrastructure setup reflects economic and technical considerations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

When undertaking system migrations, one of the main challenges is establishing confidence and seamlessly transitioning the traffic to the upgraded architecture without adversely impacting the customer experience. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While engaging the automatic instrumentation of the Dynatrace OneAgent makes log ingestion automatic and scalable , our customers have set up multiple other log ingestion methods. But there are cases where you might be limited in setting up a dedicated syslog server with OneAgent because of environment architecture or resources.

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