The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. At a glance – TLDR.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Reliability.

Serverless 325

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 325

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Vidhya Arvind , Rajasekhar Ummadisetty , Joey Lynch , Vinay Chella Introduction At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure. The KV data can be visualized at a high level, as shown in the diagram below, where three records are shown.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 260

DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The ELK stack is an abbreviation for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, which offers the following capabilities: Elasticsearch: a scalable search and analytics engine with a log analytics tool and application-formed database, perfect for data-driven applications.

Analytics 267

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Scalability 267

DZone

JULY 3, 2023

Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. IaC enables treating infrastructure setups as version-controlled code, allowing for automated provisioning, deployment, and configuration management.

Data Engineering 150

Data Engineering Infrastructure Engineering Code 150

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database. System Components. API Design.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

Availability 227

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. These traditional approaches to log monitoring and log analytics thwart IT teams’ goal to address infrastructure performance problems, security threats, and user experience issues. where an error occurred at the code level.

Analytics 264

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 264

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. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Consider the following ways teams can apply log analytics to on-premises and multicloud infrastructures: Application deployment verification. Cold storage and rehydration. Indexing overhead.

Analytics 246

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 246

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

As companies migrate their infrastructure and development workloads to the cloud, there are numerous use cases for log analytics. Consider the following ways teams can apply log analytics to on-premises and multicloud infrastructures: Application deployment verification. Cold storage and rehydration. Indexing overhead.

Analytics 245

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 245

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.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. They enable IT teams to identify and address the precise cause of application and infrastructure issues.

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Architecture 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

Virtualization 237

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 237

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. We do not use it for metrics, histograms, timers, or any such near-real time analytics use case.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere. Small blast radius.

Database 132

Database Design Cloud AWS 132

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Missing operational insights, lack of context, and limited understanding of cloud service dependencies making it almost impossible to find the root cause of customer-facing application issues or underlying infrastructure problems. The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Available Now.

AWS 279

AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere. Small blast radius.

Database 130

Database Design Cloud AWS 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

However, cloud infrastructure has become increasingly complex. Further, the delivery infrastructure that makes this happen has also become complex. Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs.

Analytics 246

Analytics Software Software Storage 246

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Dynatrace news. Engineers often choose best-of-breed services from multiple sources to create a single application.

Serverless 246

Serverless Azure Lambda AWS 246

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Note: ScaleGrid implements follower clusters using storage snapshots. It is not available for our in-memory database offerings like hosting for Redis™*. Database Dev/Test Setup. The best part?

Analytics 185

Analytics Database Storage Systems 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies. Such baselines constitute a few metrics like: What are the top five problems in your application – CPU spikes, slow response, database connections bottleneck, etc.

Engineering 262

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 262

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. This flexibility helps organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Networking. ” The post OpenShift vs.

Open Source 246

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 246

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services.

Storage 113

Storage Cloud AWS Media 113

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

The sheer number of permutations can break traditional databases. When data storage strategies become problematic to DevOps maturity Data warehouse-based approaches add cost and time to analytics projects. Indexless means teams have rapid access to data without the storage cost and resources needed to maintain massive indexes.

DevOps 246

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few).

Technology 246

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 246

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 107

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 107

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52