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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

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. Let’s assume for a moment that your data survives its many passes through a system’s DRAM and emerges intact.

Storage 145

Storage Systems Transportation Network 145

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

You might have state-of-the-art surveillance systems and guards at the main entrance, but if a side door is left unlocked, all the security becomes meaningless. Insecure storage of secrets such as API keys and passwords, as well as workload configurations. Every permission granted should be scrutinized and justified. Real-world impact.

Network 130

Network Servers Strategy Best Practices 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS has a number of features, including: Stream objects ?— ?

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Media Storage Processing Cache 218

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Multimodal data processing is the evolving need of the latest data platforms powering applications like recommendation systems, autonomous vehicles, and medical diagnostics. Handling multimodal data spanning text, images, videos, and sensor inputs requires resilient architecture to manage the diversity of formats and scale.

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Efficiency Processing Latency Storage 130

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).

Media 203

Media Logistics Innovation Cloud 203

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Introduction to Message Brokers Message brokers enable applications, services, and systems to communicate by acting as intermediaries between senders and receivers. This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes. Greenplum Advantages. Major Use Cases.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. Fetching User Feed. Optimization.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

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

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

Hardware 243

Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Scaling RabbitMQ ensures your system can handle growing traffic and maintain high performance. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Analytics Engineers deliver these insights by establishing deep business and product partnerships; translating business challenges into solutions that unblock critical decisions; and designing, building, and maintaining end-to-end analytical systems.

Analytics 212

Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics 212

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.

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Storage Strategy Cloud Network 122

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

For example, let’s say you have an idea for a new social network and decide to use Kubernetes as your container management platform. You quickly realize that it will take ages to fill up the overprovisioned database storage. Unexpectedly, a famous influencer notices your social network and promotes it all over their other channels.

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Storage Database Network Metrics 246

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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Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Operating Systems are not always set up in the same way. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Starting with OneAgent version 1.199, the runtime folder is configurable and consequently you can retain your storage mount point setup as-is.

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Storage Latency Operating System Network 227

Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

They can also develop proactive security measures capable of stopping threats before they breach network defenses. For example, an organization might use security analytics tools to monitor user behavior and network traffic. Teams can then act before attackers have the chance to compromise key data or bring down critical systems.

Analytics 264

Analytics Network Open Source Hardware 264

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. 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.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Media Feature Storage: Amber Storage Media feature computation tends to be expensive and time-consuming. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns.

Media 297

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 297

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. 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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Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

Analytics 305

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 305

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Performance monitoring Dynatrace can collect performance metrics from Nutanix clusters, including latency, IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), and network throughput. Storage container metrics Track the usage and performance of storage containers to optimize resource allocation.

Virtualization 246

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 246

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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Achieving this from a typical enterprise’s various apps, systems, and configurations is the beginning of the observability journey and, therefore, critical to get right. Collecting logs that aren’t relevant to their business case creates noise, overloads congested networks, and slows down teams. Try it out yourself.

Storage 278

Storage Government Network Infrastructure 278

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. 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

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 246

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

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 114

Storage Cloud AWS Media 114

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.

Analytics 264

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 264

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Networking.

Open Source 246

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Optimized system performance. What is log monitoring? Log monitoring vs log analytics.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

As the number of 4K titles in our catalog continues to grow and more devices support the premium features, we expect these video streams to have an increasing impact on our members and the network. The fixed-bitrate ladder starts at 560 kbps which may be too high for some cellular networks. shot-optimized encoding and 4K VMAF model ?—?and

Network 336

Network Storage Innovation Mobile 336

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112