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 flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. It helps expose memory leaks, deadlocks, caching issues, and other system issues.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 345

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Not available. Not available. Not available. New Oracle versions are generally available every 2-4 years.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Implementing clustering and quorum queues in RabbitMQ significantly improves load distribution and data redundancy, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance for messaging services. Classic queues can be used in clusters, emphasizing their behavior during node failures, particularly regarding durability and availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

However, storing and querying such data presents a unique set of challenges: High Throughput : Managing up to 10 million writes per second while maintaining high availability. Storage Layer The storage layer for TimeSeries comprises a primary data store and an optional index data store. Note : With Cassandra 4.x

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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 237

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Sometimes these locations landed on mount points which, due to capacity, availability, or access constraints, weren’t well suited for large runtime storage. See details below. See details below.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 227

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Within the next 90 days, all enhancements mentioned in this blog post will be available to all Dynatrace customers. trial page

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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

On average, ScaleGrid provides over 30% more storage vs. DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL at the same affordable price. ScaleGrid for PostgreSQL is architectured to leverage-high performance SSD disks on DigitalOcean, and is finely tuned and optimized to achieve the best performance on DigitalOcean infrastructure. High Availability.

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Scalegrid

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The KV DAL allows applications to use a well-defined and storage engine agnostic HTTP/gRPC key-value data interface that in turn decouples applications from hard to maintain and backwards-incompatible datastore APIs. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

Latency 249

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 249

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

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35 , including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features. Stay tuned!

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Availability Metrics Monitoring Open Source 128

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

With today’s high expectations for the speed and availability of applications, you need a deep understanding of real user experiences to make the best business decisions. Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring ensures that your application is available and performs well from anywhere in the world to meet your SLAs. Dynatrace news.

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Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 264

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. Artists and video editors must create them.

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Media Innovation Energy Architecture 296

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Observability is a topic at the top of mind for all architects, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and more – each wanting to use observability to proactively detect issues and guarantee the best experience and availability to users. Metric 2 (Number of requests in error): It’s already available in the Dynatrace built-in metric.

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Metrics Tuning Programming Systems 242

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In such cases, the crash can be analyzed only by using the information that’s available on the session details page. The masking process takes place on the device, even before screenshots are saved to local storage to guarantee that confidential information is never revealed. Data protection by default.

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Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage 246

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. After being available in an Early Adopter Release, we’re happy to announce that AWS supporting services are now Generally Available (GA). Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 182

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website. High Availability. Make sure your website doesn’t go down with a server or datacenter crash by configuring a master-slave setup for high availability. Stay tuned! Replication.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Dynatrace OTel Collector was released in Preview in January and is available generally from March 2024.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement out-of-the-box metrics and enable automated actions for responding to availability, security, and other service events. Many AWS services and third party solutions use AWS S3 for log storage. A Dynatrace S3 log forwarder has been available for some time to early adopters, with community support only.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 139

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Let’s consider the business challenges of an online shop that is powered by a microservice architecture where several instances of each microservice run, including the shopping cart service, to ensure the highest possible availability. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements around OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. What’s next?

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Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. As you can see above, ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean offer the same plan configurations across this plan size, apart from SSD where ScaleGrid provides over 20% more storage for the same price. MySQL Configuration Management & Tuning.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Observability engineering success!

Metrics 245

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 245

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL Today

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Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 138

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. The Metric and dimension usage + rejections dashboard preset is now available. General Availability (Build 1.239.178). General Availability (Build 1.239.178). Actions of renamed apps will now display waterfall analysis button whenever data is available. (RUM-4956).

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Azure Metrics AWS Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. ” The mechanism allowing for *.msi msi artifacts were built separately.

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Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 153

Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

A container (or a pod) running on a node may eat up all the available CPU or memory and affect all other pods on the node, degrading performance (or worse) and preventing any new workload to be scheduled on the node. By default, containers run with unbounded limits. Node and w orkload health . But of course, there are many others. .

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Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud Metrics 278

Dynatrace

AUGUST 14, 2019

Just this summer, private synthetic multi-request HTTP monitors became publicly available. What’s available. Head over to Dynatrace Help for more technical details, the list of available methods, and example HTTP monitors that are defined using pre- and post-execution scripts. How to get started. What’s next?

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Monitoring Tuning Storage Code 159

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

DEM provides an outside-in approach to user monitoring that measures user experience (UX) in real time to ensure applications and services are available, functional, and well-performing across all channels of the digital experience, including web, mobile, and IoT. Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Throughout this evolution, we’ve been able to maintain high availability and a consistent message delivery rate, with Pushy successfully maintaining 99.999% reliability for message delivery over the last few months. This delicate balance led to us doing a deep evaluation of many instance types and performance tuning options.

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Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 231

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. Now, that same full-spectrum value is available at the massive scale of the Dynatrace Grail data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 246

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

They contain large amounts of locally attached storage on multiple spindles and are connected by a minimally oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. This configuration maximizes the amount of throughput between your storage and your CPUs while also ensuring that data transfer between nodes remains extremely fast. Amazon Redshiftâ??s

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