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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This dual-path approach leverages Kafkas capability for low-latency streaming and Icebergs efficient management of large-scale, immutable datasets, ensuring both real-time responsiveness and comprehensive historical data availability. million impression events globally every second, with each event approximately 1.2KB in size.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Kafka scales efficiently for large data workloads, while RabbitMQ provides strong message durability and precise control over message delivery. Message brokers handle validation, routing, storage, and delivery, ensuring efficient and reliable communication. What is RabbitMQ?

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. And how do DevOps monitoring tools help teams achieve DevOps efficiency? Lost efficiency. 54% reported deploying updates every two hours or less.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 5, 2025

The certification results are now publicly available. The calculations and methodology used are in line with the best available scientific approach, as well as with relevant reporting requirements. Storage calculations assume that one terabyte consumes 1.2 A CPU operating at 100% utilization consumes power equal to its TDP.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Performance Optimizations PostgreSQL 17 significantly improves performance, query handling, and database management, making it more efficient for high-demand systems. Start your free trial today!

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

The Insight TriadAPI To efficiently understand the health of a title and triage issues quickly, all implementations of the observability endpoint must answer: is the title eligible for this phase of promotion, if notwhy is it not eligible, and what can be done to fix any problems. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data. Polymorphic Data Storage. Major Use Cases.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

Say hello to advanced trace an alytics and new data storage and capture options. These game-changing features elevate your data interactions, opening up vast possibilities for advanced queries and efficient data management tailored to your needs. This precision reduces storage costs while ensuring you retain the data that matters most.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

Thanks to its structured and binary format, Journald is quick and efficient. Dynatrace Grail lets you focus on extracting insights rather than managing complex schemas or index and storage concepts. It offers structured logging, fast indexing for search, access controls, and signed messages.

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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

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. This model supports both simple and complex data models, balancing flexibility and efficiency.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value. Limited data availability constrains value creation. This approach is cumbersome and challenging to operate efficiently at scale. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. Thus, it can scale massively.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

These developments open up new use cases, allowing Dynatrace customers to harness even more data for comprehensive AI-driven insights, faster troubleshooting, and improved operational efficiency. Customers have had a positive response to our native syslog implementation, noting its easy setup and efficiency.

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Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

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Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In most data storage models, indexing engines enable faster access to query logs. But indexing requires schema management and additional storage to be effective, which adds cost and overhead. This can vastly reduce an organization’s storage costs and improve data efficiency. Eliminates team silos.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access. AWS offers four serverless offerings for storage.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSONB supports indexing the JSON data, and is very efficient at parsing and querying the JSON data. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns. JSONB storage results in a larger storage footprint. It is a decomposed binary format to store JSON.

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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. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Minimizes downtime and increases efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Hardware - servers/storage hardware/software faults such as disk failure, disk full, other hardware failures, servers running out of allocated resources, server software behaving abnormally, intra DC network connectivity issues, etc. . – this is addressed through monitoring and redundancy. Redundancy by building additional data centers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. It involves both the collection and storage of logs, as well as aggregation, analysis, and even the long-term storage and destruction of log data.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. The framework comprises six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This allows you to create flexible and powerful log storage configurations on any level by utilizing the unique autodiscovery capabilities of Dynatrace OneAgent or a custom setup. It’s delivered in three parts: New log storage configuration is available in Dynatrace version 1.252 and requires OneAgent 1.243+.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

With the right log management and observability platform, IT teams can efficiently identify the root cause of problems during these peak times and maintain three-nines of availability — or 99.98%. Cold storage and rehydration. Cold storage and rehydration. Inadequate context.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

With the right log management and observability platform, IT teams can efficiently identify the root cause of problems during these peak times and maintain three-nines of availability — or 99.98%. Cold storage and rehydration. Cold storage and rehydration. Inadequate context.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They handle complex infrastructure, maintain service availability, and respond swiftly to incidents. This enables efficient resource allocation, avoiding unnecessary expenses and ensuring optimal performance. When your applications and services are available and performing well, your customers are happy. Capacity planning.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Dynatrace, in tandem with the Nutanix extension, simplifies performance monitoring and makes issue identification and resolution more efficient. This helps IT teams quickly identify and troubleshoot problems, reducing downtime and ensuring the availability of critical applications.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. What's changed ?

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. Snowflake is a data warehouse designed to overcome these limitations, and the fundamental mechanism by which it achieves this is the decoupling (disaggregation) of compute and storage. joins) during query processing. Disaggregation (or not).

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

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Storage Engineering Database Open Source 114

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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