The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this example configuration, the ngsegment namespace is backed by both a Cassandra cluster and an EVCache caching layer, allowing for highly durable persistent storage and lower-latency point reads. "persistence_configuration":[ Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Improving data processing. Boosting batch processing. Data Store.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. We don’t pre-compute feeds for celebrity users (have 1M+ followers) as the process to fan-out the feeds to all the followers will be extremely compute and I/O intensive.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

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CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The round trip also measures intermediate steps on that journey such as propagation delay, transmission delay, processing delay, etc. Reduce Transfer Size Broadly simplified… Web servers don’t send whole files at once—they chunk them into packets and send those. Where Does CrUX’s RTT Data Come From? An inefficiency present in HTTP/1.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Traffic Duplication and Correlation: The initial step requires the implementation of a mechanism to clone and fork production traffic to the newly established pathway, along with a process to record and correlate responses from the original and alternative routes. We will examine these alternatives in the upcoming sections.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 6, 2019

We’re happy to announce that WebP Caching has landed! We offer both a one click solution with no change required on your origin server as well as an approach where you can deliver the WebP assets from your origin server. How Does WebP Caching Work? It’s all about the accept header sent from the client.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. Rethinking Server-Timing As A Critical Monitoring Tool. In the world of HTTP Headers, there is one header that I believe deserves more air-time and that is the Server-Timing header. Setting Server-Timing. Sean Roberts. 2022-05-16T10:00:00+00:00.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. Impacting Server-Side Requests: Dynatrace allows you to drill into your server-side requests to understand why your business logic is executing slow or fails. Missing retry and failover implementations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

By batching and parallelizing the requests to retrieve many creatives via a single query to the GraphQL server, we can optimize the index building process. Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch. To act on the change, we need a GraphQL server that supports introspection.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By Karthik Yagna , Baskar Odayarkoil , and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. The previous version of the message processor was a Mantis stream-processing job that processed messages from the message queue.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2023

This method involves providing the lowest level of access by default, deleting inactive accounts, and auditing server activity. For these, it’s important to turn off auto-completing forms, encrypt data both in transit and at rest with up-to-date encryption techniques, and disable caching on data collection forms.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever you install your favorite MySQL server on a freshly created Ubuntu instance, you start by updating the configuration for MySQL, such as configuring buffer pool, changing the default datadir director, and disabling one of the most outstanding features – query cache. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Another enhancement to the previous version of the integration is the synchronization of running application processes as Applications on the server, as shown in the screenshot above. To make our IRE import process more stable, we’ve now split the IRE host message into individual messages.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Workloads using multi-threading and multi-processing, or performing many I/O operations, can experience lower execution time and, consequently, even lower costs based on execution time and configured memory size. According to the official AWS announcement, Graviton2-based Lambda functions offer up to 34% better price-performance improvement.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. The Not-so-good In the arduous process of breaking a monolith, you might get a sharp shard or two flung at you. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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KeyCDN

MAY 14, 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added the Image Processing feature! It’s no longer necessary to store several variations of the same image on your server. How Does Image Processing Work? The Image Processing feature is available on all Pull Zones. For example, the query string ?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon RDS , with support for MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle databases, is for customers with apps where relational database features and support for a specific brand of database are critical. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. The increasing sophistication of client-side JavaScript has redefined what dynamic means; where in the past dynamic content would be mainly server generated, today much content is served statically with JavaScript on the client side doing the dynamic modifications. No Server Required.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. For the HTTP request, we add the request headers we sent, as well as certain details from the response, such as the status code, the length of the response, and server information.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Often the data is held in memory by consumers and used as a “total cache”, where it is accessed at runtime by client code and atomically swapped out under the hood. for example Open Connect Appliance cache configuration, supported device type IDs, supported payment method metadata, and A/B test configuration.

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Cache Architecture Metrics Java 189

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Dependency agent Installation – Maps connections between servers and processes. AI engine, Davis – Automatically processes billions of dependencies to serve up precise answers; rather than processing simple time-series data, Davis uses high-fidelity metrics, traces, logs, and real user data that are mapped to a unified entity.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the main benefits of GraphQL is the client’s ability to request what they need from the server and receive that data exactly and predictably. We’ll be learning how to do this with GraphQL Features like Cache Update, Subscriptions, and Optimistic UI. Updating the cache directly using update function on the useMutation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2019

Many Dynatrace monitoring environments now include well beyond 10,000 monitored hosts—and the number of processes and services has multiplied to millions of monitored entities. Best practice: Reduce bandwidth consumption by caching and keeping information. Dynatrace news.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This query is performed by a Domain Name Server (DNS server) or servers nearby that have been assigned responsibility for that hostname. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. A DNS server maintains a directory of domain names and translates them to IPs. So DNS services definitely go down!

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Here’s how we manage this: Horizontal scaling : TimeSeries server instances can auto-scale up and down as per attached scaling policies to meet the traffic demand. The storage server capacity can be recomputed to accommodate changing requirements using our capacity planner. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

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Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. Setting up curl (7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7).

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The vision is that data scientists use their favourite ML framework to construct a model, which together with any data pre-processing steps and library dependencies forms a model pipeline. Static analysis and the IR. " Query execution.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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