The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

To meet this need, the Studio Infrastructure team has created Netflix Workstations. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. They could need a GPU when doing graphics-intensive work or extra large storage to handle file management.

Entertainment 307

Entertainment Storage Open Source Hardware 307

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. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Infrastructure type In most cases, legacy SIEM tools are on-premises. Security analytics must also contend with the multicomponent architecture of modern IT infrastructure. Dehydrated data has been compressed or otherwise altered for storage in a data warehouse. How do companies reliably find, review, and analyze this data?

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 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 31, 2020

Some time ago we released a quick-start template for deploying Managed clusters on AWS infrastructure and Microsoft Azure is supported as well. You can now automatically leverage the benefits of the Dynatrace Managed offering with your GCP infrastructure. For more details, see Dynatrace Managed hardware and systems requirements.

Cloud 264

Cloud Availability Azure Google 264

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Many shows have needs that exceed 100,000 frames, so aggregate rendering time can impact the timely delivery of a show on Netflix.

Cloud 286

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 286

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps is an IT discipline involving actions and decisions made by the operations team responsible for an organization’s IT infrastructure. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Monolithic applications earned their name because their structure is a single running application, which often shares the same physical infrastructure. As the entire application shares the same computing environment, it collects all logs in the same location, and developers can gain insight from a single storage area.

Cloud 246

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 246

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.

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

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?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

Storage 96

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 96

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) From shared-nothing to disaggregation. Disaggregation (or not).

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. This includes troubleshooting issues with software, services, and applications, and any infrastructure they interact with, such as multicloud platforms, container environments, and data repositories.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. KVM functions as a type 1 hypervisor, delivering performance similar to hardware—an edge over type 2 hypervisors.

Virtualization 124

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 124

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Although lazy queues conserve RAM, they may result in longer processing times due to the increased throughput time associated with disk storage. Disaster recovery involves strategies to recover from catastrophic events like data center outages or significant hardware failures.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " In from of them is a networking layer, and the in-memory storage layer holds the actual data.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cloud Infrastructure Services -- An analysis of potentially anti-competitive practices by Professor Frédéric Jenny. What some consider infrastructure or platform is just another cloud service. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. A group advocating for fair licensing. It's a choice.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

For our migration projects, we simply roll out Dynatrace OneAgents on the existing infrastructure. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. Optimize Query Performance and Data Storage Cost.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Oracle infrastructure does not offer strong compatibility with open source RDBMS. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. Compatibility. Extensions. So Which Is Best?

Open Source 244

Open Source C++ Tuning Database 244

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

DZone

JULY 19, 2023

The IT infrastructure and services will reach $35.98 This article discusses the profound influence these elements have on IT operations within the utility and energy sector, providing a robust and adaptive infrastructure for the future. The global IT operations and service management market is expected to grow by 7.5% billion by 2025.

Virtualization 130

Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. Thereby streamlining their database infrastructure without any major complications or stress accompanying doing the same effectively resulting in fewer worries when setting out sail onboard!

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs. PostgreSQL in the cloud CPU Considering AWS as your cloud platform of choice, the configuration made for your infrastructure will influence the performance of your application and monthly costs.

Cloud 133

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 133

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. This becomes an even more important lesson at scale: for example, as S3 processes trillions and trillions of storage transactions, anything that has even the slightest probability of error will become realistic. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. A DBaaS automates several processes, such as using, erasing, and spinning up storage without interventions from IT staff. You don’t need to purchase additional storage when you have a self-managed cloud database.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. The biggest drawbacks are that a full backup can be time-consuming, and they require a significant amount of storage space.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models come with their advantages, like increased flexibility and secure, scalable IT infrastructure but face challenges such as management complexity and integration issues. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail? What is Multi-Cloud?

Cloud 147

Cloud Strategy Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

Cloud 114

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 114

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. return on agility.â??

AWS 98

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 98

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. These services also require the ability to scale infrastructure incrementally to accommodate growth in request rates or dataset sizes.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

Availability 98

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones. They rely on the AWS Cloud for their entire infrastructure and use almost every AWS service available.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119