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.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 164

All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

Ecommerce 210

Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 210

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. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. What is FaaS?

Development 262

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 262

InfoQ

JANUARY 25, 2023

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator.

Design 144

Design Systems Storage Data Engineering 144

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend. What’s the difference between Fluent Bit and Fluentd?

Best Practices 255

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage 255

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.

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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 242

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

Latency 254

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 254

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. What is hyperconverged infrastructure?

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Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 213

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

Storage 114

Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 114

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). See you in the New Year. I'd really appreciate it.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

Infrastructure 239

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 239

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. 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). Grail is built for such analytics, not storage.

Artificial Intelligence 278

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 278

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage Cloud AWS Media 115

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 96

DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. The workload could refer to anything from an increase in users, storage, or a number of transactions.

Scalability 100

Scalability Software Architecture Storage Architecture 100

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

Storage 97

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 97

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 197

Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI requires more compute and storage. Training AI data is resource-intensive and costly, again, because of increased computational and storage requirements. As a result, AI observability supports cloud FinOps efforts by identifying how AI adoption spikes costs because of increased usage of storage and compute resources.

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Strategy Artificial Intelligence Storage Cloud 234

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. Can you expand?

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Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

DonHopkins : NeWS differs from the current technology stack in that it was all coherently designed at once by James Gosling and David Rosenthal, by taking several steps back and thinking deeply about all the different problems it was trying to solve together. Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment." Not so many this week.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Media Feature Storage: Amber Storage Media feature computation tends to be expensive and time-consuming. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns.

Media 299

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 299

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Dynatrace supports scalable data ingestion, ensuring your observability infrastructure grows with your cloud environment. The dashboard tracks a histogram chart of total storage utilized with logs daily. You can see in a table retention periods by the number of logs and storage they consumed.

Innovation 273

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 273

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Security analytics solutions are designed to handle modern applications that rely on dynamic code and microservices. Dehydrated data has been compressed or otherwise altered for storage in a data warehouse. Observability starts with the collection, storage, and accessibility of multiple sources.

Analytics 243

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 243

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? The complexity of these operational demands underscored the urgent need for a scalable solution. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different. How do we bridge this gap?

Traffic 174

Traffic Scalability Strategy Monitoring 174

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The exponential growth of data volume—including observability, security, software lifecycle, and business data—forces organizations to deal with cost increases while providing flexible, robust, and scalable ingest. OpenPipeline high-performance filtering and preprocessing provides full ingest and storage control for the Dynatrace platform.

Analytics 203

Analytics Processing Transportation Storage 203

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. All data is readily accessible without storage tiers, such as costly solid-state drives (SSDs). No storage tiers, no archiving or retrieval from archives, and no indexing or reindexing.

Retail 248

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture 248

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.

Latency 253

Latency Cache Infrastructure Strategy 253

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

Dave Snowden ~ A key principle of complex design is shift a system to an adjacent possible. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Hungry for more?

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

NG SAST was initially designed only for vulnerabilities. We rewrote almost all of the storage used for storing code analysis results while maintaining backwards compatibility and without any outages. It took several weeks of intense collaboration, designing, iterative implementation, and testing in production.

Storage 231

Storage Design Infrastructure Engineering 231

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. Buckets are similar to folders, a physical storage location. There is a default bucket for each table.

Artificial Intelligence 270

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Analytics Storage 270

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. As the paved path for moving data to key-value stores, Bulldozer provides a scalable and efficient no-code solution. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

Latency 254

Latency Storage Big Data Tuning 254

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix Drive aims to solve this problem of exposing different namespaces and attaching appropriate access control to help build a scalable, performant, globally distributed platform for storing and retrieving pertinent assets. It exposes a file/folder interface for applications to save their data and an API interface for control operations.

Media 184

Media Storage Architecture Cloud 184

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 137

Storage Scalability Database Technology 137

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

When extended to include application security practices, DevOps becomes DevSecOps and includes security-focused criteria, such as security by design and making security a critical release criterion. When data storage strategies become problematic to DevOps maturity Data warehouse-based approaches add cost and time to analytics projects.

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DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 196

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The nodes themselves are designed specifically for data warehousing workloads. They contain large amounts of locally attached storage on multiple spindles and are connected by a minimally oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. All Things Distributed.

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Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 156