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

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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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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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. But how does FaaS fit in? Increased availability.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) 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.

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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. Cloud-server monitoring. Cloud storage monitoring. While hybrid and multicloud environments are often lumped together, they are not the same.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

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. These include options where replay traffic generation is orchestrated on the device, on the server, and via a dedicated service.

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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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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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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. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic.

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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

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?

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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. Apply Davis AI to your TIBCO EMS servers. Synchronous storage size. Async storage size. Storage read size rate.

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Storage Metrics Java Architecture 182

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. Additionally, it provides index-free storage and direct analytics access to source data without requiring data rehydration. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Redis is an in-memory key-value store and cache that simplifies processing, storage, and interaction with data in Kubernetes environments.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Problems include provisioning and deployment; load balancing; securing interactions between containers; configuration and allocation of resources such as networking and storage; and deprovisioning containers that are no longer needed. How does container orchestration work? The post What is container orchestration?

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Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 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. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2016

I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! 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. about teletext.io

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Typically, these are streamed to a central syslog server. One option is to install OneAgent on that syslog server, which automatically discovers, instruments and sends the log data to the Dynatrace platform. In the “Storage and Logging” section, select “ awsfirelens ” as the log driver.

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Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 245

All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! 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. about teletext.io

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Lambda Serverless AWS Architecture 86

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered. MongoDB is a NoSQL database designed for unstructured data, offering flexibility and scalability with a schemaless architecture, making it suitable for applications needing rapid data handling.

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

Architecture To understand more about deployment procedures, we need to look a little more at Neon architecture. Basically, you can view this as a PostgreSQL instance but without a storage layer Storage Broker Storage Broker is a coordination component between WAL Service and Pageserver. 50051 2.

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Serverless C++ Storage Servers 144

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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Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

With Dynatrace, there is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage concepts. This architecture also means you’re not required to determine your log data use cases beforehand or while analyzing logs within the new Logs app.

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The Polyglot Developer

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

So I was researching object storage and I came across the open source distributed object storage software, Minio. After all they are both object storage solutions. Being that Minio was written with Golang, it is cross platform for different computing architectures, ARM included.

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Storage Open Source Hardware Architecture 72

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications. Because every DevOps environment is unique, exactly how organizations implement these monitoring types will differ depending on architecture and tools.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer. These architectural discussions culminated in Amazon DynamoDB, a new NoSQL service that we are excited to release today. The growth of Amazonâ??s

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

While this abundance of dashboards and information is by no means unique to Netflix, it certainly holds true within our microservices architecture. A span: Represents a unit of work, such as a network call from one service to another (a client/server relationship) or a purely internal action (e.g., starting and finishing a method).

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. It plays a critical role by assigning tasks, which trims down the delivery times for web application servers and enhances overall productivity.

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SQL Performance

JULY 19, 2022

Previously I’ve talked about why logging is required and the architecture and circular nature of the log, so now it’s time to look at the real heart of the logging system—the log records themselves. There are between 70 and 100 log record types, depending on the version of SQL Server (there’s no documented list). What Are Log Records?

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Servers Database Storage Engineering 94

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. To run it, you have to make another API call to the server and retrieve any data you want to load. Jump to online workshops ?.

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Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. Insert the ‘log-bin’ directive into your server’s configuration file (my.cnf or my.ini).

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

You can choose to save them locally on the same server, stream them to different servers, or store them in object storage. STDOUT Datasink This diagram displays the process of streaming a backup to object storage utilizing the current STDOUT datasink: XtraBackup spawns multiple copy threads.

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