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.

Cache 89

Cache Government Traffic Network 89

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

message Item ( Bytes key, Bytes value, Metadata metadata, Integer chunk ) Database Agnostic Abstraction The KV abstraction is designed to hide the implementation details of the underlying database, offering a consistent interface to application developers regardless of the optimal storage system for that use case.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

She was speaking about how her team is providing Visibility as a Service (VaaS) in order to continuously monitor and optimize their systems running across private and public cloud environments. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN.

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. With observability, you can get a better understanding of how your systems behave and what they do, especially in case of errors. Why should I adopt observability?

Metrics 245

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 245

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. Looking at our high traffic UI screens (like the homepage) allowed us to identify any regressions caused by the endpoint before we enabled it for all our users.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 241

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Those use cases are well served by the Netflix Atlas telemetry system. Effectively managing this data at scale to extract valuable insights is crucial for ensuring optimal user experiences and system reliability.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Each of these models is suitable for production deployments and high traffic applications, and are available for all of our supported databases, including MySQL , PostgreSQL , Redis™ and MongoDB® database ( Greenplum® database coming soon). This becomes really important for cache solutions like Redis™. Expert Tip. Security Groups.

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

They don’t currently have a CDN , yet they do experience high traffic levels from all over the globe: Being geographically close to your audience is the biggest step in the right direction. Interestingly, 304 responses are still a form of redirect: the server is redirecting your visitor back to their HTTP cache.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 234

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Dataset propagation At Netflix we use an in-house dataset pub/sub system called Gutenberg. 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. Gutenberg allows for propagating versioned datasets ?—?consumers

Cache 191

Cache Architecture Metrics Java 191

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 221

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. The cache is invalidated on a time basis. On-Demand Builders.

Cache 139

Cache Website Strategy Traffic 139

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nonetheless, we found a number of limitations that could not satisfy our requirements e.g. stalling the processing of log events until a dump is complete, missing ability to trigger dumps on demand, or implementations that block write traffic by using table locks. Blocking write traffic by locking tables. Writing events to any output.

Database 206

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Let’s take a look at each common resource.

Traffic 98

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index. query cache: Disable (query_cache_size: 0, query_cache_type:OFF) innodb_adaptive_hash_index: Check adaptive hash index usage to determine its efficiency.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Upcoming Operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 February 2021. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2021. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 May 2021. Linux: Ubuntu 19.10.

Operating System 165

Operating System Java Mobile Cache 165

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes?

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Introducing gnmi-gateway: a modular, distributed, and highly available service for modern network telemetry via OpenConfig and gNMI By: Colin McIntosh, Michael Costello Netflix runs its own content delivery network, Open Connect , which delivers all streaming traffic to our members.

Open Source 188

Open Source Network Transportation Cache 188

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.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. Cache Hit Ratio The cache hit ratio represents the efficiency of cache usage.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS’19. Existing cache and main memory compression techniques compress data in small fixed-size blocks, typically cache lines. ” The big idea. What about arrays? We want Zippads to compress both well.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., Side-channels are typically an unintentional consequence of a complicated system. Network traffic is also monitored, included all TLS-secured traffic where the developers hadn’t used certificate pinning (i.e.,

Systems 74

Systems Traffic Network Google 74

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one. What is DNS?

Cache 134

Cache Website Internet Internet 134

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. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

Cache 136

Cache Internet Internet Google 136

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

REDIS for caching. Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Dynatrace’s Response Time Hotspot Analysis automates the hotspot detection in highly distributed systems. 3 Log Analytics. .

AWS 170

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 170

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Cross Region Read Replicas also enable you to serve read traffic for your global customer base from regions that are nearest to them. While the infrastructure costs for basic disaster recovery could have been very high, the associated system and database administration costs could be just as much or more.

Cloud 111

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 111

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding. I will eventually increase them if I see the need.

Traffic 144

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 144

Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Redis can also be used as a messaging system such as pubsub. Memcached cannot be used as a pubsub system. Memcached is very good at handling high traffic websites. Redis can not handle heavy traffic on read/write. Memcached supports only string data type which is ideal for storing read-only data.

Traffic 100

Traffic Software Architecture Website Efficiency 100

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

9GAG is a Hong Kong-based company responsible for 9gag.com , one of the top traffic websites in the world. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

AWS 126

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 126

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Image optimization , loading behavior and rendering in the browser require understanding of image formats and image compression techniques, image decoding and browser rendering, image CDNs and adaptive media loading, not to mention effective caching and preloading. Optimizing Network Requests with Caching and Preloading. +.

Media 124

Media Cache Google Best Practices 124

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 78

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Hence, this could cost a lot of business, due to the dwindling site traffic. A domain name system-based blackhole list is essentially a mechanism to prevent fraud. How are these email addresses from the sites blacklisted?

Monitoring 86

Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86