The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After selecting a mode, users can interact with APIs without needing to worry about the underlying storage mechanisms and counting methods. Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date!

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As cloud environments become increasingly complex, legacy solutions can’t keep up with modern demands. As a result, companies run into the cloud complexity wall – also known as the cloud observability wall – as they struggle to manage modern applications and gain multicloud observability with outdated tools.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Cloud-based solutions typically aren’t a viable option or enterprises that have strict security or privacy policies that require their data to be maintained on-premise. To give you a helping hand in such scenarios, we decided to facilitate Managed cluster deployments for major cloud platforms. Dynatrace news. Prerequisites.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

Cloud-native observability for Google’s fully managed GKE Autopilot clusters demands new methods of gathering metrics, traces, and logs for workloads, pods, and containers to enable better accessibility for operations teams. The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. Agent logs security.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes. Greenplum Advantages. Major Use Cases.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cloud deployments have grown rapidly in recent years, and enterprise hybrid and multicloud environments have become the new standard, resulting in new challenges such as: Keeping up with dynamic, autoscaling environments where instances, applications and microservices come and go fast. AWS Storage Gateway. Dynatrace news. AWS OpsWorks.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. As data volumes rapidly increase, streamlined data storage is a top priority. Dynatrace news. Reliability.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

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InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Explain cloud computing to me at a professional level? Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. Another key benefit of cloud computing is its reliability and availability. Which cloud provider would you recommend?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. Hyperconverged vs. cloud: Consider the differences.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Fully automated observability into your Azure multi-cloud environment. You can integrate Dynatrace with Azure for intelligent monitoring of services running in Azure Cloud. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1. Simplify cloud operations with full visibility into your Azure Automation accounts. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Event Grid.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2024

At first, data tiering was a tactic used by storage systems to reduce data storage costs. This involved grouping data that was not accessed as often into more affordable, if less effective, storage array choices. Even though they are quite costly, SSDs and flash can be categorized as high-performance storage classes.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Across the board, the topics cloud migration, application modernization, breaking the monolith or hybrid cloud re-platforming have been a center point in many of our discussions with our joint enterprise customers. For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

An AI observability strategy—which monitors IT system performance and costs—may help organizations achieve that balance. Growing AI adoption brings rising cloud costs There are three key reasons that AI costs can spiral out of control: AI consumes additional resources. AI requires more compute and storage.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

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DZone

MAY 22, 2019

However, Hive cannot access a single table directly using a single query with the data of this Hive table across different mediums of storage and different clusters. In this regard, data will always reside in the under-storage system as the source of truth and can be residing temporarily in the Alluxio file system.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 14, 2024

A particular focus is given to data residency, local data security and privacy requirements, and enabling Dynatrace Managed customers to upgrade to Dynatrace SaaS in the cloud. Domain-specific guidelines recommend local data storage in Japan. In certain sectors, data must be stored in Japan, and cloud solutions must support this rule.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sometimes overlooked is a fourth category we might call long-tail processes; these are the ad hoc or custom workflows that develop in response to gaps between systems, applications, departments, or workflows. Log files using OpenPipeline to extract and transform business data while reducing log management and storage overhead.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Application and system logs are often collected in data silos using different tools, with no relationships between them, and then correlated in manual and often meaningless ways. The advantage of an index-free system in log analytics and log management. In most data storage models, indexing engines enable faster access to query logs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. Fetching User Feed.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Cold storage and rehydration.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Cold storage and rehydration.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Multicloud harnesses diverse cloud services to boost flexibility, while hybrid cloud merges public and private clouds for enhanced control. What is Multi-Cloud? But what do these entail?

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DZone

APRIL 11, 2023

Data processing in the cloud has become increasingly popular due to its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. This article will explore how these technologies can be used together to create an optimized data pipeline for data processing in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. Ingest and process with Grail.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

You quickly realize that it will take ages to fill up the overprovisioned database storage. Two days later, your database runs out of storage in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, you did not have any monitoring or alerting in place, and you stopped checking the system daily because you have lost faith in your idea.

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