The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this hands-on lab from ScyllaDB University, you will learn how to use the ScyllaDB CDC source connector to push the row-level changes events in the tables of a ScyllaDB cluster to a Kafka server. What Is ScyllaDB CDC?

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DZone

MAY 7, 2023

The following tutorial walks you through how to use Spring Boot apps with ScyllaDB for time series data, taking advantage of shard-aware drivers and prepared statements. ScyllaDB is used to store the stock price (time series data). And you’ll learn how ScyllaDB can be used to store time series data.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

We will show you exactly how to deploy a Nodejs app to the server using Docker containers, RDS Amazon Aurora, Nginx with HTTPS, and access it using the Domain Name. These APIs will be used to check the status of the app, insert data in the database and fetch and display the data from the database.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You’re gathering a lot of data, but you can’t make sense of it. A histogram is a specific type of metric that allows users to understand the distribution of data points over a period of time. In practice, histograms are useful when the measurement distribution is relevant and the data sets are large.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Migrating ScaleGrid for Redis™ data from one server to another is a common requirement that we hear from our customers. Two of the main reasons we hear are often due to migration of hardware, or the need to split data between servers.

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Percona

JANUARY 10, 2025

When setting up data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption) in Percona Server for MongoDB, one has three options for storing a master encryption key: Encryption key file on a filesystem, KMIP server, HashiCorp’s Vault. One can read […]

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

Observing complex environments involves handling regulatory, compliance, and data governance requirements. This continuously evolving landscape requires careful management and clarity regarding how sensitive data is used. This is particularly important when dealing with large volumes of data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A high-level overview of how an attacker can exploit a CVE-2024-53677 vulnerable Struts application to upload a web shell into a web-accessible directory and then remotely execute commands on the web server via the web shell. However, its history is marked by critical security flaws leading to data breaches. While Struts version 6.4.0

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. Both methods allow you to ingest and process raw data and metrics. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Software and data are a company’s competitive advantage. But for software to work perfectly, organizations need to use data to optimize every phase of the software lifecycle. The only way to address these challenges is through observability data — logs, metrics, and traces. Teams interact with myriad data types.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Welcome, data enthusiasts! Whether you’re a seasoned IT expert or a marketing professional looking to improve business performance, understanding the data available to you is essential. In this blog series, we’ll guide you through creating powerful dashboards that transform complex data into actionable insights.

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DZone

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Software is how customers interact with businesses, share their data, and receive goods and services. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has become a giant industry, taking care of hosting services used by customers by upgrading, scaling, and securing customer data.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2022

The data locked in your log files can be a goldmine for your application developers, operations teams, and your enterprise as a whole. However, it can be complicated , expensive , or even impossible to set up robust observability that makes use of this data. Log format inconsistency makes it a challenge to access critical data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

To stay competitive in an increasingly digital landscape, organizations seek easier access to business analytics data from IT to make better business decisions faster. As organizations add more tools, it creates a demand for common tooling, shared data, and democratized access. These technologies generate a crush of observability data.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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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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Percona

MARCH 17, 2025

In this blog, we will look at the differences between LTS (Long Term Stable) versions of Percona Server for MySQL. introducing significant changes to the data dictionary and enabling many features and enhancements. Released in April 2019, MySQL 8.0 represented a major change from the previous version, 5.7,

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Every image you hover over isnt just a visual placeholder; its a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. This nuanced integration of data and technology empowers us to offer bespoke content recommendations. This queue ensures we are consistently capturing raw events from our global userbase.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 9, 2025

A critical security threat for cloud-native architectures SSRF is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to make a server-side application send requests to unintended locations. SSRF can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data, such as cloud metadata, internal databases, and other protected resources.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Live Debugger allows you to set non-breaking breakpoints, capturing critical data snapshots in real time. Using this data, developers can inspect local variables, server-process details, thread information, and trace data to identify the root cause of issues.

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DZone

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Accurate time is crucial for all financial transactions, data synchronization, network security, and even just making sure that devices around the world are in sync. NTP servers, which manage the Network Time Protocol, are essential in achieving this.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

But observability data (traces) can fill in the blanks to reveal useful evidence of possible exploitation, as proved by our analysis of the MoveIT vulnerability using Dynatrace. When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

Until recently, improvements in data center power efficiency compensated almost entirely for the increasing demand for computing resources. The rise of big data, cryptocurrencies, and AI means the IT sector contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. However, this trend is now reversing.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Faster Write Operations: Enhancements to the write-ahead log (WAL) processing double PostgreSQLs ability to handle concurrent transactions, improving uptime and data accessibility. Start your free trial today!

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Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2025

Whether youre a developer, database administrator, or data analyst, a good GUI can make everyday tasks faster, clearer, and less error-prone. If youre working with MySQL on a web server and want a browser-based tool, this ones hard to beat. Thats where MySQL GUIs come in.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 4, 2025

It supports multi-line logs, handles log rotation, and even includes mechanisms to check for data corruption. Grail, the Dynatrace schema on-read data lakehouse , is at the heart of the Dynatrace platform. The Grail architecture ensures scalability, making log data accessible for detailed analysis regardless of volume.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a simple declarative programming language utilized by various technology and business professionals to extract and transform data. Facilitating remote access to other computers or servers with easier navigation. Providing windows to streamline multitasking through programs and file structures.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. A single API team maintained both the Java implementation of the Falcor framework and the API Server. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. The primary server is responsible for handling all write operations and maintaining data accuracy.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is the backbone of many data warehouses. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is an ETL tool widely used for developing and managing enterprise data warehouses. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is an ETL tool widely used for developing and managing enterprise data warehouses.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2024

When operational disruptions strike—whether it’s a rogue server or a cyberattack—Dynatrace services remain in harmony. How Dynatrace will support you The Dynatrace secret weapon is data. Imagine a dashboard that whispers, “Hey, there’s a vulnerability brewing in Server Room B.” The show must go on.

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DZone

JULY 31, 2024

The probes are sent and the results are analyzed continuously, with new data coming in every second. For instance, a server in one of the racks might start showing increased packet loss due to the server's high CPU utilization. The analytics are conducted on a sliding window of several tens of seconds.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

MySQL configuration variables are a set of server system variables used to configure the operation and behavior of the server. Configuration variables that can be set at run time are called Dynamic variables and those that need a MySQL server restart to take effect are called Non-Dynamic variables. and MySQL 8.0. vs MySQL 8.0

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