Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. Designing Better Links For Websites And Emails: A Guideline. When a link is presented as “here” or “this,” it’s harder to aim it with a cursor or finger. Slava Shestopalov. 2021-12-06T17:30:00+00:00. 2021-12-06T19:34:18+00:00. And is it acceptable to use “read more”?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. We present two sets. On the other hand, the optimized ladder presents a sharper increase in quality with increasing bitrate.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 262

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

How can we design systems that recognize these nuances and empower every title to shine and bring joy to ourmembers? They allow us to verify whether titles are presented as intended and investigate any discrepancies. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different. How do we bridge this gap?

Traffic 174

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. So, the design of OTel allows for flexibility.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. For how our machine learning recommendation systems leverage our key-value stores, please see more details on this presentation. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

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Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 254

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

To support such use cases, access control at the user workspace and project workspace granularity is extremely important for presenting a globally consistent view of pertinent data to these artists. Data Store Characteristics Netflix Drive relies on a data store that allows streaming bytes into files/objects persisted on the storage media.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. This is obviously very expensive.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

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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. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. It should be noted that not all of the techniques presented are universally applicable, as each migration presents its own unique set of circumstances.

Traffic 287

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 287

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With Amazon Web Services, the main sources from which to ingest logs—Simple Storage Service, or S3, and CloudWatch —come with an additional cost. Log Viewer enables users to present log data in a filterable, easy-to-use table and to browse log data within a certain time frame using detected aspects of the log content.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the concept of DBMS has undergone significant evolution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By design, Metaflow is a deceptively simple Python library: Data scientists can structure their workflow as a Directed Acyclic Graph of steps, as depicted above. The devil is in the many carefully designed details of Metaflow: for instance, note how in the above example data and models are stored as normal Python instance variables.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

What is Maestro Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines. The transition was seamless, and Maestro has met our design goals by handling our ever-growing workloads. increase in executed jobs.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. When data storage strategies become problematic to DevOps maturity Data warehouse-based approaches add cost and time to analytics projects.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. The other document you can specify is a customer error page that is presented to your customers when a 4XX class error occurs (e.g. Comments (). Subscribe to this weblogs.

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InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request.

Storage 115

Storage Network Open Source Latency 115

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Logs are presented in the context of the applications that generate them, with the capability to run queries and open queried log entries directly in the Logs app. With Dynatrace, there is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage concepts. share situation or incident-specific views across teams.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. So, the design of OTel allows for flexibility.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is your good-to-go option for disk space.

Cloud 125

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 125

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 138

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. These models both offer advantages, while also presenting their unique challenges.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 134

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The traditional method to work with databases is using the command-line interface (CLI) tool, however, this interface presents a number of issues : It requires a big learning curve to get the best out of the DBMS. Provides advanced security for your databases by storing passwords in secured storage protected by a master password.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

For example, to construct a product detail page for a customer visiting Amazon.com, our software calls on between 200 and 300 services to present a highly personalized experience for that customer. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost.

Technology 132

Technology Technology AWS Storage 132

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since that presentation, Pushy has grown in both size and scope, and this article will be discussing the investments we’ve made to evolve Pushy for the next generation of features. To support this growth, we’ve revisited Pushy’s past assumptions and design decisions with an eye towards both Pushy’s future role and future stability.

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The data loss will be catastrophic for many, as will the removal of foundational features like reliable data storage, app-like UI, settings integration, Push Notifications, and unread counts. This was all wrapped in a peevish, belligerant presentation, which the good folks over at The Platform Law Blog have covered in depth.

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Storage Engineering Games Design 114

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

This presents enterprises with a wide range of options that cater specifically to their needs within this new framework created by multiple trusted cloud service providers. The Consequences of Cloud Security Failures Failure to properly secure the cloud can have devastating consequences for businesses.

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Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail. It should offer user-friendly operation.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Here we present a list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools to make your SRE and Ops teams more effective to achieve their service level objectives. Interactive mode is designed to allow you to discover your cluster's components, and manually break things to see what happens. The backup files are stored in an object storage service (e.g.

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Engineering Storage 111

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

The above diagram shows the information present in a checkpoint, while the below output shows how it looks when listed using the “wt” utility. $ Journal, on the one hand, is an append-only operation in a journal file, AKA transaction log file present on disk. These checkpoints are stored in WiredTiger.wt

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