The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Metric definitions are often scattered across various databases, documentation sites, and code repositories, making it difficult for analysts and data scientists to find reliable information quickly. With Analytics enablement and LORE, weve enabled our business users to truly have a conversation with thedata.

Analytics 212

Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics 212

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. Today along with their team, we will see how pvc-autoresizer can automate storage scaling for MongoDB clusters on Kubernetes. In our lab we will use AWS EKS with a standard storage class.

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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. Dynatrace news. Engineers often choose best-of-breed services from multiple sources to create a single application.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. AWS EKS for Integration and Production. When focusing on the LanguageController service we learn that it’s currently deployed in three pods across three EKS nodes across two AWS Availability Zones (AZ). 4 AWS EFS monitoring. NGINX as an API Gateway. REDIS for caching.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

As Ibrar Ahmed noted in his blog post on Transparent Database Encryption (TDE). PostgreSQL is a surprising outlier when it comes to offering Transparent Database Encryption. If database files are copied or otherwise exposed in their raw form, exposure does not happen. Does PostgreSQL Need TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?

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Database Storage Government Open Source 145

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. For example, you can choose the public cloud storage type – gp3, io2, etc, or set file system.

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Storage Strategy Cloud Network 122

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Java, Go, and Node.js

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. This message is normally a side effect of a storage subsystem that is not capable of keeping up with the number of writes (e.g., The settings might not be optimal.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

DevOps teams operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting Azure, AWS, GCP, or other cloud environments are provided with an app focused on their daily routines and tasks. Davis AI automatically correlates Amazon AWS EC2 and business backend logs. There is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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Database Design Cloud AWS 135

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

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. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services.

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 114

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc.

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Storage Performance AWS Open Source 199

Percona Community

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Introduction Percona Operator for MongoDB is an open-source solution designed to streamline and automate database operations within Kubernetes. When running database workloads on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), backup and restore processes often require access to AWS services like S3 for storage.

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AWS Open Source Storage Database 59

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

Database 132

Database Design Cloud AWS 132

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The Ohio Region is the fifth AWS region in the US. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. The pace of expansion at AWS is accelerating, and Ohio is our third region launch this year. Check out the Regional Products and Services page for the full list.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Storage 109

Dynatrace

JANUARY 20, 2022

DL/I segment name for DL/I databases. RUM linking timeouts adjusted in transaction storage. (APM-341299). The trace list now correctly supports sorting on the number of database calls. (APM-340223). In case your browser is already set to Japanese, the Dynatrace web UI will by default inherit that setting automatically.

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Lambda AWS Metrics Azure 245

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. Enter graph databases.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB.

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Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. In this blog post, we will see how running databases on Kubernetes with Percona Operators can reduce your cloud bill when compared to using AWS RDS. EBS gp2 storage is $0.10 db.r5.4xlarge – $1.92/hour hour or $46.08/day

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Cloud Storage AWS Database 144

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. Fixed an issue in which database conditions in tagging and management zone configurations were evaluated incorrectly. Consumption and storage now returned correctly when using Environment API with paging.

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Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 246

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days. RAMA , a Brazilian financial services firm and AWS customer : â??The

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AWS Latency Storage Cloud 105

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

TDE is a database encryption technique that encrypts data at the column or table level, as opposed to full-disk encryption (FDE), which encrypts the entire database. To enable the encryption of the storage in Kubernetes, you need to modify the StorageClass resource. apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1 apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1

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Storage AWS Cloud Database 143

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 98

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are still looking for old-fashioned ways, like storage-level snapshots (i.e., AWS EBS Snapshots). AWS EBS Snapshots). The volumes you created earlier will be used automatically.

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Database Storage Open Source AWS 97

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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AWS Database Storage Scalability 66

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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