The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This led to a suite of fragmented scripts, runbooks, and ad hoc solutions scattered across teamsan approach that was neither sustainable nor efficient. Additionally, the time-sensitive nature of these investigations precludes the use of cold storage, which cannot meet the stringent SLAs required.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

The Insight TriadAPI To efficiently understand the health of a title and triage issues quickly, all implementations of the observability endpoint must answer: is the title eligible for this phase of promotion, if notwhy is it not eligible, and what can be done to fix any problems. The request schema for the observability endpoint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Our goal was to build a versatile and efficient data storage solution that could handle a wide variety of use cases, ranging from the simplest hashmaps to more complex data structures, all while ensuring high availability, tunable consistency, and low latency. Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

You quickly realize that it will take ages to fill up the overprovisioned database storage. Two days later, your database runs out of storage in the middle of the night. Therefore, you don’t know your current growth rate and can’t estimate the required storage for keeping the database up and running for the next month.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases. Let’s dive into the various aspects of this abstraction.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This guide will cover how to distribute workloads across multiple nodes, set up efficient clustering, and implement robust load-balancing techniques. This leadership ensures that messages are managed efficiently, providing the fastest fail-over among replicated queue types.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Before we dive into the technical implementation, let me explain the visual concept of this “Global Status Page”: Another requirement for this status page was that it has to be lightweight, with no data storage at all. Getting the problem status of all environments has to be efficient. js framework.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. What is Bulldozer Bulldozer is a self-serve data platform that moves data efficiently from data warehouse tables to key-value stores in batches. Figure 1 shows how we use Bulldozer to move data at Netflix.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

You can use the Grail Storage Record Deletion API to trigger a deletion request. To delete the records, use the Storage Record Deletion API. Check our Privacy Rights documentation to stay tuned to our continuous improvements. With Notebooks, you can easily query data from Grail and visualize the results.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step.

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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. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments.

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1. Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that enables you to quickly and efficiently create automated data pipelines—without writing any code. We’ll release additional monitoring support for new services soon, so stay tuned for further updates. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Data Factory v1.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

To handle errors efficiently, Netflix developed a rule-based classifier for error classification called “Pensive.” If you are interested in attending a future Data Engineering Open Forum, we highly recommend you join our Google Group to stay tuned to event announcements. Until next time!

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. As you can see above, ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean offer the same plan configurations across this plan size, apart from SSD where ScaleGrid provides over 20% more storage for the same price. MySQL Configuration Management & Tuning.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log analytics also help identify ways to make infrastructure environments more predictable, efficient, and resilient. Log analysis can reveal potential bottlenecks and inefficient configurations so teams can fine-tune system performance. Together, they provide continuous value to the business. Increased collaboration.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Please stay tuned!

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Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A bloom filter is a space-efficient way of storing information about a list of keys. Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With these clear benefits, we continued to build out this functionality for more devices, enabling the same efficiency wins. It was very efficient, but it had a set job size, requiring manual intervention if we wanted to horizontally scale it, and it required manual intervention when rolling out a new version.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To train these parameters as well as fine-tune the pretrained image-text model weights, we leverage in-house datasets that pair shots of varying durations with rich textual descriptions of their content.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2021

Continuous improvement of services is the most efficient process for all teams that are looking to improve the performance of their applications by considering all layers of their architecture. For example, an athlete must be in tune with their body to know when something isn’t operating right which could impact their future performance.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. Learn more about the announcements at Perform 2023 in the Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Also, because similar data are stored sequentially, Amazon Redshift can compress data efficiently, which further reduces the amount of IO it needs to perform to return results. They contain large amounts of locally attached storage on multiple spindles and are connected by a minimally oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet network.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly. Evaluation of migration completeness: To verify the completeness of the records, cold storage services are used to take periodic data dumps from the two data stores and compared for completeness.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. However, to ensure a level playing field regarding connection handling, we tuned ScaleGrid’s instances to allow 830 connections. Storage I/O : Both ScaleGrid and RDS use GP3.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Storage I/O. We help where we can. File System. Networking.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Dangerous , because if you set this to a thread when using connection pooling OR ProxySQL and multiplexing, you may end up assigning a limitation to queries that instead, you wanted to run efficiently. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. Another cool useless feature??? Will this work? Good MySQL everyone.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Storage I/O. We help where we can. File System. Networking.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. s prices by 70%. For example, in our US East (N.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Consider alternative tools, systems, and services: Many cloud providers offer long-term storage, serverless options, or component options for specific needs, with vastly different pricing models.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. When persistent messages in RabbitMQ are encrypted, it ensures that even in the event of unsanctioned access to storage hardware, confidential information stays protected and secure.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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