The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.),

Cloud 286

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 286

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

The nature of “anytime, anywhere” data generation means data is no longer confined to structured processes and can’t always be defined by existing policies. While it still has value once it has been rehydrated into its original form, this process can be time and resource-intensive.

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

Both methods allow you to ingest and process raw data and metrics. Critical data includes the aircraft’s ICAO identifier , squawk code, flight callsign, position coordinates, altitude, speed, and the time since the last message was received. Sample JSON data is shown below: Figure 4.

IoT 264

IoT Analytics Transportation Metrics 264

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log monitoring is a process by which developers and administrators continuously observe logs as they’re being recorded. Log analytics is the process of evaluating and interpreting log data so teams can quickly detect and resolve issues.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 246

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. Gartner estimates that less than half of enterprise-generated data is now created and processed in data centers or the cloud.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 246

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 215

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 215

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Or think of requesting a new drivers license which requires your implementation to reach out to many dependent systems, e.g. DMV, police records that are needed to kick off the process of renewing or issuing a new license.

Cache 214

Cache Database Architecture Government 214

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Step 2: Understand your Dependencies: No Host or Process left alone! How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service? Also accessible through the Smartscape API.

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The standard specification describes in minute detail how a video bitstream should be processed in order to produce displayable video frames. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments.

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are a great tool to align business goals with the technical goals that drive DevOps (Speed of Delivery) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Ensuring Production Resiliency). Dynatrace news. The business said it wanted to increase the adoption of the new app vs the existing app.

DevOps 246

DevOps Social Media Mobile Metrics 246

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

Bill Simmons, CTO of Dataxu, states, "We process 3 million ad requests a second - 100,000 features per request. In other words, processing the 10th gigabyte and 1000th gigabyte is conceptually the same. To seamlessly switch between CPU and GPU machines, we use Apache MXNet to interface with the underlying hardware.

Scalability 129

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 129

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The vision is that data scientists use their favourite ML framework to construct a model, which together with any data pre-processing steps and library dependencies forms a model pipeline. " Query execution.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Servers 72

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Refer to innodb_redo_log_capacity below.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. RabbitMQ follows a message broker model with advanced routing, while Kafkas event streaming architecture uses partitioned logs for distributed processing. What is Apache Kafka?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news. This can be your external facing website, internal business applications.

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Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 200

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

Natural language processing has come a very long way since then, having burnt through a good few paradigms to get to something we can use on a daily basis. The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes.

Games 122

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 122

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Such behavior not only limits speed but also your ability to increase throughput by adding resources. Ultimately, it leads to a state where your system won’t be able to process more data even if you add more hardware. Now, let’s look at a Cassandra process group and see if we can find any CPU-hungry threads and thread groups.

Java 141

Java Scalability Hardware Code 141

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. hardware support for malware detection/prevention).

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Systems 98

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

Scalegrid

JUNE 14, 2024

Microsoft Power BI and MySQL are two powerful tools that can facilitate this process. In this article, we will explore the process of how to connect MySQL to Power BI, a leading business intelligence tool. This streamlined data integration simplifies the process of data analysis and ensures consistency and accuracy in reporting.

Database 130

Database Azure Efficiency Servers 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). A second takeaway is this: security has a cost! Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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. Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process. These must be considered when establishing backup policies.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 109

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. Query Routers (mongos) : Query routers, also known as “mongos” processes, act as the interface between applications and the sharded cluster.

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity. Throughput and latency. Some of these problems (e.g.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The current system assumes an application specific regression model is available on the servers which can predict processing time given the current parameters of the job (e.g. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). for the wasm-version.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

” That’s 4-8x the speed of evolution and feedback cycles. To get that release speed, Snap needs to be a user space solution. …with a gradual upgrade process across a cluster, we have found that our existing applications do not notice hundred millisecond blips in communication that occur once per week.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

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. It provides tools for organizing and retrieving data efficiently.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., However, the process of deriving actionable insights out of this wide variety of data sources is not easy. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

Cloud 114

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 114

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. At one extreme we have a ‘16 x 1’ architecture with 16 queues each with one associated processing unit.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Such as INFO which gives statistics about the server, LATENCY LATEST which provides latency measurements in real time and MONITOR which allows observation of the clients transmitted command at live speed. Setting Up RedisInsight Getting RedisInsight up and running is a simple process.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Testlodge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Software testers explore the effectiveness of processes that should lead to quality software products to make sure they perform the purpose for which they have been designed. Results may vary because of factors like resolution, internet speed, and different OS versions. Why Perform Compatibility Testing? Conclusion.

Testing 78

Testing Hardware Operating System Mobile 78

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render. How quickly do they show up? These are smart people.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

About the cluster Following a step-by-step process, the objective is to create a four-node cluster consisting of: PostgreSQL version 15 Citus extension (I’ll be using version 11, but there are newer ones available.) In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114