The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Imagine the digital world as a bustling highway, where data packets are vehicles racing to their destinations. In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 20, 2024

Driven by that value, Dynatrace brings real-time observability, security, and business data into context and makes sense of it so our customers can get answers, automate, predict, and prevent. Executives are sitting on a goldmine of data, and they don’t know it. Common business analytics incur too much latency.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

When a MongoDB rollback happens, it can cause trouble to your data integrity and system consistency. Understanding how to address a rollback is critical for minimizing potential data loss and maintaining seamless operations. The consequences of rollbacks are significant and should not be underestimated.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

This platform has evolved from supporting studio applications to data science applications, machine-learning applications to discover the assets metadata, and build various data facts. Hence we built the data pipeline that can be used to extract the existing assets metadata and process it specifically to each new use case.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. 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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

I have ingested important custom data into Dynatrace, critical to running my applications and making accurate business decisions… but can I trust the accuracy and reliability?” ” Welcome to the world of data observability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When it comes to Citus, successfully building out and scaling a PostgreSQL cluster across multiple nodes and even across data centers can feel, at times, to be an art form because there are so many ways of building it out.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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CSS Wizardry

JANUARY 31, 2019

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path. Latency is defined as…. how long it takes for a bit of data to travel across the network from one node or endpoint to another. The Time Column.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. For this third and final part of our series, we saved the best for last: How you can enhance telemetry data even more and with less effort on your end with Dynatrace OneAgent.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2021

However, these deployments add significant complexity to database operations and data consistency suffers. CockroachDB was built to address these challenges and we’ve recently simplified a multi-region deployment of a consistent database down to a few simple, declarative SQL statements applied as DML.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scalable Annotation Service — Marken by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal Introduction At Netflix, we have hundreds of micro services each with its own data models or entities. But there are more interesting cases where users want to store temporal (time-based) data or spatial data. Movie Entity with id 1234 has violence.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This is guest post by Sachin Sinha who is passionate about data, analytics and machine learning at scale. This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. Again Yugabyte latency is quite high.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events.

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VoltDB

AUGUST 8, 2024

quintillion bytes of data are generated each day, enterprises have more data under their control than ever before. Unfortunately, many organizations lack the tools, infrastructure, and architecture needed to unlock the full value of that data. What are the benefits of a real-time data platform? In a world where 2.5

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database. Microsoft Azure offers multiple ways to manage Apache Cassandra databases. It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

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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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VoltDB

MAY 30, 2024

Finding the right data platform BEFORE you get mired in an emergency iis key. But choosing the best possible data platform to embed in your solution isn’t easy. Here are the questions we think OEMs should ask when selecting a data platform for their applications. No tech investment can save them. Consider the cloud.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. It also shows how data observability relates to business outcomes as organizations embrace generative AI. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues.

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Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

WiredTiger excels with operational databases and transactional workloads as it offers b-tree-based storage and well-ordered data structures. In-memory Storage Engine This storage engine works completely in RAM, providing the fastest possible access to data. Compaction operation defragments data files & indexes.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases.

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DZone

MAY 1, 2023

It is a transversal component that applies to all the tech areas and architecture layers such as operating systems, data platforms, backend, frontend, and other components. It is a transparent layer for the data consumer in terms of user usability except to improve performance. What Is a Cache?

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Data Placement. Data Consistency. System Coordination.

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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. Larger cells have better tolerance of tail latency (e.g.

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VoltDB

MARCH 21, 2024

The law of entropy clearly applies as much to tech stacks and data management as it does to closets and desk drawers. The most obvious and common way this happens is when companies try to evolve their caches into a data platform that can, for example, be used as highly available enterprise key-value stores for volatile data.

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InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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