The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

Besides the need for robust cloud storage for their media, artists need access to powerful workstations and real-time playback. Local storage and compute services are connected through the Netflix Open Connect network (Netflix Content Delivery Network) to the infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Media Logistics Innovation Cloud 203

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The Greenplum Architecture. Greenplum Advantages. Major Use Cases. So, how is this all coordinated?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Mobile applications (apps) are an increasingly important channel for reaching customers, but the distributed nature of mobile app platforms and delivery networks can cause performance problems that leave users frustrated, or worse, turning to competitors. What is mobile app performance? Issue remediation.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Mobile Metrics Performance 246

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

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.

Cache 246

Cache Scalability Performance Latency 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

This extends Dynatrace visibility into Citrix user experience and Citrix platform performance. Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Citrix VDA.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Message brokers handle validation, routing, storage, and delivery, ensuring efficient and reliable communication. What is RabbitMQ?

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

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?

Infrastructure 264

Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 264

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the recently published Gartner® “ Critic al Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability,” Dynatrace scored highest for the IT Operations Use Case (4.15/5) This is accomplished by using service monitoring and anomaly detection for early-warning notifications of performance issues.” 5) in the Gartner report.

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Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Performance Analytics 278

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Native support for syslog messages extends our infrastructure log support to all Linux/Unix systems and network devices.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

It’s really scary knowing that such corruptions are happening in the memory of our computers and servers – that is before they even reach the network and storage portions of the stack. That data must then be safely transported over a network to the storage system where it is written to disk.

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Storage Systems Transportation Network 145

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. For example, you can choose the public cloud storage type – gp3, io2, etc, or set file system.

Storage 122

Storage Strategy Cloud Network 122

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You get all the multicore Anna performance you want, but you don’t pay for what you don’t need. Just to throw out some numbers, we measured Anna providing 355x the performance of DynamoDB for the dollar. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

DZone

JUNE 3, 2019

Normally, GPU nodes don't have much room for SSDs, which limits the opportunity to train very deep neural networks that need more data. For example, one well-respected vendor's standard solution is limited to 7.5TB of internal storage, and it can only scale to 30TB.

Storage 100

Storage Performance Network Scalability 100

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Successful deployments of cloud-native workloads at the edge help to reduce costs, boost performance, and improve customer experience. But there’s more than just a need for minimizing resource (CPU, memory, storage) and network (bandwidth) consumption for observability at the edge.

Retail 306

Retail Storage Analytics Cloud 306

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nutanix overview dashboard The extension automatically gathers real-time performance data from your Nutanix clusters to monitor resource usage, cluster health, and more, all in one place. Dynatrace, in tandem with the Nutanix extension, simplifies performance monitoring and makes issue identification and resolution more efficient.

Virtualization 246

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. This is critical to ensure high performance, security, and a positive user experience for cloud-native applications and services.

Cloud 260

Cloud Systems Analytics DevOps 260

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Optimizing RabbitMQ performance through strategies such as keeping queues short, enabling lazy queues, and monitoring health checks is essential for maintaining system efficiency and effectively managing high traffic loads.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Firstly, developers struggled to reason about consistency, durability and performance in this complex global deployment across multiple stores. 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 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Networking. Large-scale, multicloud deployments can introduce challenges related to network visibility and interoperability. Traditional ways of operating networks using static IPs and ports simply don’t work in dynamic Kubernetes environments. Bad actors can use misconfigurations to gain access to sensitive data.

Open Source 246

Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation 246

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. Azure Virtual Networks.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. 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. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

Cloud 242

Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Since database hosting is more dependent on memory (RAM) than storage, we are going to compare various instance sizes ranging from just 1GB of RAM up to 64GB of RAM so you can see how costs vary across different application workloads. High performance. Meltdown Performance Impact on MongoDB: AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Sometimes these locations landed on mount points which, due to capacity, availability, or access constraints, weren’t well suited for large runtime storage. Customizable location of large runtime files.

Storage 227

Storage Latency Operating System Network 227

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The number and variety of applications, network devices, serverless functions, and ephemeral containers grows continuously. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Stop worrying about log data ingest and storage — start creating value instead. And this expansion shows no sign of slowing down. Create filters.

Analytics 264

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 264

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a fully tested product on AWS Outposts. “We Dynatrace can help customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance for workloads operating on AWS Outposts, in AWS Regions, and on customer-owned hardware for a truly consistent hybrid experience.”.

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AWS Design Cloud Storage 275

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. AWS Storage Gateway. Additionally, Dynatrace creates predefined dashboard templates to visualize each service usage and performance. Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database.

AWS 279

AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Access to source code repositories is limited on both the network and the user level. Source code management systems are only accessible from within the Dynatrace corporate network. Remote access to the Dynatrace corporate network requires multi-factor authentication (MFA). No manual, error-prone steps are involved.

Software 289

Software Software Development AWS 289

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

This new service enhances the user visibility of network details with direct delivery of Flow Logs for Transit Gateway to your desired endpoint via Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. The newly introduced VPC Flow Logs for Transit Gateway service brings a new network dimension to application monitoring.

AWS 246

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 246

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.

Development 279

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc. Redundancy in power, network, cooling systems, and possibly everything else relevant. this is addressed through monitoring and redundancy. Again the approach here is the same.

Hardware 243

Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. – A Dynatrace customer, Head of Performance Engineering. Regular Dynatrace Managed deployments can work seamlessly when a maximum of two nodes are down at a time and the network has low latency.

Availability 264

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 246