The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Both categories share common requirements, such as high throughput and high availability. After selecting a mode, users can interact with APIs without needing to worry about the underlying storage mechanisms and counting methods. The table below provides a detailed overview of the diverse requirements across these two categories.

Latency 251

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 251

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.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

Percona

APRIL 1, 2025

As more organizations move their PostgreSQL databases onto Kubernetes, a common question arises: Which storage solution best handles its demands? Picking the right option is critical, directly impacting performance, reliability, and scalability.

Storage 65

Storage Benchmarking Scalability Database 65

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.

Analytics 147

Analytics Operating System Scalability Infrastructure 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 provides faster processing, greater efficiency, and better scalability for modern database needs. Unlike full backups that duplicate everything, incremental backups store only changes since the last save, reducing storage needs and speeding up recovery. Start your free trial today!

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Polymorphic Data Storage. At a glance – TLDR. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges. Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

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. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability.

Serverless 325

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 325

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Data storage and distribution through HollowFeeds Netflix Hollow is an Open Source java library and toolset for disseminating in-memory datasets from a single producer to many consumers for high performance read-only access. The results are returned in a standardized format, ensuring easy support for futureUIs.

Traffic 180

Traffic Strategy Entertainment Innovation 180

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2025

Say hello to advanced trace an alytics and new data storage and capture options. Its now possible to create metrics on OpenTelemetry and OneAgent spans with any available attribute, giving you the power to define operational, request, and method-level metrics. But why stop there?

Games 165

Games Analytics Innovation Metrics 165

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.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

A metric can therefore be defined once in DJ and be made available across analytics dashboards and experimentation analysis. For example, to compare the average streaming hours in cell A vs cell B, the Experimentation Platform relies on DJ to bring in cell_assignment as a users dimension (no different from country_iso_code).

Analytics 212

Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics 212

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.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

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. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. What is FaaS?

Development 279

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

That’s because it does not require any pre-prepared schemas, and access to cold/hot storage is fully automatic and with zero latency. Dynatrace analytics capabilities, powered by hypermodal AI , enable executives to drive improved availability , strengthened security compliance , and heightened confidence in AI initiatives.

Technology 275

Technology Technology Analytics Storage 275

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Limited data availability constrains value creation. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Additionally, efforts such as lowered data retention times, two-tiered storage systems, shaky index management, sampled data, and data pipelines reduce the overall amount of stored data.

Analytics 264

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 264

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. Ingest and process with Grail.

Artificial Intelligence 290

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 290

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?

Storage 297

Storage Cache Metrics Database 297

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.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. Therefore, we have redesigned this extension from scratch, replacing the previously available WMI-based extension.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

Ecommerce 206

Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 206

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

The good news is that you can maximize availability and prevent website crashes by designing websites specifically for these events. For example, you can switch to a scalable cloud-based web host, or compress/optimize images to save bandwidth. This can result in a loss of revenue and reputation damage. Lets jump right in!

Traffic 86

Traffic Website Design Cache 86

High Scalability

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I, we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Simply put, in a MySQL semisynchronous replication configuration, the master commits transactions to the storage engine only after receiving acknowledgement from at least one of the slaves.

Availability 149

Availability Storage Engineering 149

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The exponential growth of data volume—including observability, security, software lifecycle, and business data—forces organizations to deal with cost increases while providing flexible, robust, and scalable ingest. OpenPipeline high-performance filtering and preprocessing provides full ingest and storage control for the Dynatrace platform.

Analytics 272

Analytics Processing Transportation Storage 272

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 114

Storage Cloud AWS Media 114

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Logs are immediately available for troubleshooting, security investigations, and auditing, becoming integral to the platform alongside traces and metrics. Dynatrace supports scalable data ingestion, ensuring your observability infrastructure grows with your cloud environment. It also tracks the top five log producers by entity.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

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.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

DZone

JUNE 3, 2019

Using local SSDs inside of the GPU node delivers fast access to data during training, but introduces challenges that impact the overall solution in terms of scalability, data access, and data protection. For example, one well-respected vendor's standard solution is limited to 7.5TB of internal storage, and it can only scale to 30TB.

Storage 100

Storage Performance Network Scalability 100

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Not available. Not available. Not available. Scalability. PostgreSQL offers free scalability, and can scale up to millions of transactions per seconds. Compare Functionality. Compare Ease of Use. Total Cost. $0.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

Availability 124

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 124

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. Some storage engines (any store which defers true deletion) such as Cassandra struggle with high volumes of deletes due to tombstone and compaction overhead.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

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.

Database 121

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

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.

Artificial Intelligence 279

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Analytics Storage 279

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. Can you expand?

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201