Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. According to 2023 statistics, 49% of web applications use an SQL-based database , with SQL having a 75% adoption rate in the IT industry.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

I stumbled into data engineering rather than making an intentional career move into the field. I started my career as an application developer with basic familiarity with SQL. I was later hired into my first purely data gig where I was able to deepen my knowledge of big data. What drew you to Netflix?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

We adopted the following mission statement to guide our investments: “Provide a complete and accurate data lineage system enabling decision-makers to win moments of truth.” Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Supported technologies include cloud services, big data, databases, OS, containers, and application runtimes like the JVM.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

The Journey In the past few years, Netflix Studio has gone through few iterations of data movement approaches. In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. Processors with Different Inputs/Outputs Data Mesh allows developers to contribute processors to the platform.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

The focus on bringing various organizational teams together—such as development, business, and security teams — makes sense as observability data, security data, and business event data coalesce in these cloud-native environments. As organizations develop new applications, vulnerabilities will continue to emerge.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. The processed data is typically stored as data warehouse tables in AWS S3.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Choosing the right database often comes down to MongoDB vs MySQL. This article will help you understand the core differences in data structure, scalability, and use cases. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered.

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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. Comments (). Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

Java 211

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, Amazon EMR) whereas insights need to be derived by not just developers but also non-technical business users. Big data challenges. Enter Amazon QuickSight. Summing it all up.

Cloud 114

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

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. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Comments ().

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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. These principles reduce resource usage by being more efficient and effective while lowering the end-to-end latency in data processing.

Storage 212

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users. The data infrastructure to collect, store, and process data is geared primarily towards developers and IT professionals whereas insights need to be derived by not just technical professionals but also non-technical business users.

Analytics 126

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. To meet these demanding and unusual requirements, weve developed several alternative, purpose-built persistence solutions, including our own key-value store and single table store. Comments (). Expanding the Cloud â??

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 129

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the past few years, two important trends that have been disrupting the database industry are mobile applications and big data. The explosive growth in mobile devices and mobile apps is generating a huge amount of data, which has fueled the demand for big data services and for high scale databases.

Big Data 78

Big Data Mobile Latency Database 78

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping applications achieving fast and predictable performance, it often protects databases from requests bursts and brownouts under overload conditions. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

Cloud 106

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 106

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

However, its limited feature set compared to Redis might be a disadvantage for applications that require more advanced data structures and persistence. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Data transfer technology. 3d render.

Cache 130

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Please also visit the AWS developer blog for more great stories from our South American customers. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Latency Storage Cloud 105

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the world of web development, those who become experts usually do so by learning from their predecessors. Reading and following the right web development blogs makes it much easier to get a solid education. That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Percona

MARCH 15, 2023

We at Percona talk a lot about how Kubernetes Operators automate the deployment and management of databases. Operators seamlessly handle lots of Kubernetes primitives and database configuration bits and pieces, all to remove toil from operation teams and provide a self-service experience for developers.

Database 111

Database Big Data Processing Servers 111

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. MyRocks: MyRocks is a storage engine developed by Facebook and made open source. It supports native sharding.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. Cactus is a static website generator developed by Koen Bok of Made By Sofa (recently acquired by Facebook ). Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Servers Social Media AWS Website 111

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today we have local teams in Hong Kong to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

When a new customer is onboarded, the ISV has to spin up a collection of AWS resources to run their web-servers, app-servers and databases in a multi-AZ (availability zone) setting to achieve high-availability. A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments.

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AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 98

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Seer uses a lightweight RPC-level tracing system to collect request traces and aggregate them in a Cassandra database. ASPLOS’19. accuracy) and avoided 495 (84%) of them.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Several agencies of very different parts of the government have needs for data analytics that really put the Big in Big-Data, sometimes several orders of magnitude larger than commonly found in industry.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 90

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Let us start with a simple example that illustrates capabilities of probabilistic data structures: Let us have a data set that is simply a heap of ten million random integer values and we know that it contains not more than one million distinct values (there are many duplicates). what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

We have also added teams in the Nordics to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more. That’s 100% faster.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Data is retrieved by scheduling a job, which typically completes within 3 to 5 hours. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services. With Amazon Glacier any organization now has access to the same data archiving capabilities as the worldâ??s

Storage 114

Storage Cloud AWS Media 114

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Developing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy When devising a strategy for a hybrid cloud, numerous critical elements must be considered. Scalegrid for Hybrid Cloud Success Securing a reliable ally is essential in the intricate journey of developing hybrid clouds. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 77

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel.  The input data is often organized as a Grid. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

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AWS Programming Latency Architecture 125

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

For more details see the announcement , the details pages of the services at [link] , and the posting on the AWS developer blog. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 84

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In October there will be an abundance of sessions, events, and coding activities focused on game and mobile app development. Topics include Introduction to AWS, Big Data, Compute & Networking, Architecture, Mobile & Gaming, Databases, Operations, Security, and more. What’s Happening at the AWS Loft.

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AWS Games Education Innovation 93

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Today, I am very proud to be a part of the Amazon Web Services team as we truly make HPC available as an on-demand commodity for every developer to use. There has been no easy way for developers to do this in Amazon EC2. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. HPC and Amazon EC2.

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 98