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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

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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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

These include challenges with tail latency and idempotency, managing “wide” partitions with many rows, handling single large “fat” columns, and slow response pagination. It also serves as central configuration of access patterns such as consistency or latency targets. Useful for keeping “n-newest” or prefix path deletion.

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Introducing Netflix TimeSeries Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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What’s New at ScaleGrid – September 2024

Scalegrid

Additionally, we’ve added the Philadelphia AWS Local Zone , helping to reduce latency for customers operating in the eastern U.S. This enables ScaleGrid users in Australia and nearby regions to access lower-latency services and improved performance.

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Optimize your environment: Unveiling Dynatrace Hyper-V extension for enhanced performance and efficient troubleshooting

Dynatrace

Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult.