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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Challenges At Netflix, temporal data is continuously generated and utilized, whether from user interactions like video-play events, asset impressions, or complex micro-service network activities. Storage Layer The storage layer for TimeSeries comprises a primary data store and an optional index data store.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions.

Cloud 242

Cloud Media Storage Cache 242

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Imagine a bustling city with a network of well-coordinated traffic signals; RabbitMQ ensures that messages (traffic) flow smoothly from producers to consumers, navigating through various routes without congestion. Quorum queues can still function during a network partition as long as most nodes communicate.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Traffic Strategy Efficiency 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

To address potentially high numbers of requests during online shopping events like Singles Day or Black Friday, it’s crucial that this online shop have a memory storage strategy that allows for speed, scaling, and resilience of all microservices, especially the shopping cart service. What’s next?

Java 264

Java Traffic Architecture Strategy 264

Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Getting insights into the health and disruptions of your networking or infrastructure is fundamental to enterprise observability. For example, a supported syslog component must support the masking of sensitive data at capture to avoid transmitting personally identifiable information or other confidential data over the network.

Open Source 246

Open Source Infrastructure Network Government 246

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. There is also a wide network of Oracle partners available to help you negotiate a discount , typically ranging from 15%-30%, though larger discounts of up to 40%-60% are available for larger accounts. Compare Ease of Use.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1. Azure Network Interface. We’ll release additional monitoring support for new services soon, so stay tuned for further updates. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Container Instance. Azure Data Factory v1. Azure Data Factory v2. Azure Data Lake Analytics. Azure Event Grid. Azure Event Hubs Cluster. What’s next?

Azure 235

Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 235

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. Log analysis can reveal potential bottlenecks and inefficient configurations so teams can fine-tune system performance. Optimized system performance. Increased collaboration.

Analytics 264

Analytics Monitoring DevOps Artificial Intelligence 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Observability engineering success!

Metrics 245

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 245

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Stay tuned for updates in Q1 2020. Dynatrace news. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Amazon Redshift. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).

AWS 200

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 200

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 246

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. The first few tips are related to locality.

Best Practices 138

Best Practices Storage Latency Tuning 138

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Many AWS services and third party solutions use AWS S3 for log storage. If so, stay tuned for more news about direct AWS Kinesis Data Firehose configuration in AWS console. Logs complement out-of-the-box metrics and enable automated actions for responding to availability, security, and other service events.

AWS 246

AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics 246

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Additionally, we now support Shared VPC on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , making managing and sharing resources across multiple projects easier while keeping your network streamlined and secure. This update allows customers to scale storage more flexibly, based on their current needs, without incurring unnecessary costs. </p>

Latency 130

Latency AWS Storage Tuning 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Stay tuned for updates in Q1 2020. Dynatrace news. Amazon Kinesis Video Streams. Amazon Redshift. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).

AWS 182

AWS Metrics IoT Storage 182

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Storage Database 139

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

And, as before, you can always use private Synthetic locations that are located within your network infrastructure to measure complex internal applications and APIs. Storage and management of credentials via the Synthetic Monitoring credential vault. So stay tuned! What makes Dynatrace HTTP monitors unique? Support for OAuth 2.0,

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 264

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To train these parameters as well as fine-tune the pretrained image-text model weights, we leverage in-house datasets that pair shots of varying durations with rich textual descriptions of their content. The embedding computation is based on a large neural network model and has to be run on GPUs for optimal throughput.

Media 234

Media Social Media Tuning Engineering 234

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2019

Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. And it added to the network traffic in terms of new version distribution.

Storage 153

Storage Tuning Traffic Architecture 153

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

They contain large amounts of locally attached storage on multiple spindles and are connected by a minimally oversubscribed 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. This configuration maximizes the amount of throughput between your storage and your CPUs while also ensuring that data transfer between nodes remains extremely fast.

Cloud 152

Cloud Storage Architecture Scalability 152

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website. Next, select the VM size, ranging from Micro at 10GB of storage up to X4XLarge at 700GB of storage, and then your MySQL version and storage engine. Stay tuned! Replication.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

KeyValue is an abstraction over the storage engine itself, which allows us to choose the best storage engine that meets our SLO needs. After tuning our store for Pushy’s needs, it has been on autopilot since, appropriately scaling and serving our requests with very low latency.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Storage I/O. Networking. We help where we can. File System.

Tuning 53

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 53

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Simply put, in a MySQL semisynchronous replication configuration, the master commits transactions to the storage engine only after receiving acknowledgement from at least one of the slaves. Another configuration we can use to increase the efficiency of parallel execution on the slaves is to tune binlog_group_commit_sync_delay on the master.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. When persistent messages in RabbitMQ are encrypted, it ensures that even in the event of unsanctioned access to storage hardware, confidential information stays protected and secure.

Transportation 130

Transportation Virtualization Strategy Storage 130

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Storage I/O. Networking. We help where we can. File System.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Each ran with the following specs: 8GB RAM 2 vCPU 120GB SSD Configuration Details : Each PostgreSQL instance for Scalegrid and Amazon RDS was set up with default tuning parameters for PostgreSQL versions 13, 14, and 15. Network Latency : We ran both machines in the same region and conducted the tests from within the same box in that region.

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

This capability is essential when performance tuning since query events include discrete CPU and IO metrics as well as runtime parameters, which are key for troubleshooting query performance problems such as parameter sniffing. Network hit from the ADS Profiler extension (4-minute range). For some reason this thing will not go away!

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

Hardware 134

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 134

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

VPC Endpoints give you the ability to control whether network traffic between your application and DynamoDB traverses the public Internet or stays within your virtual private cloud. Secure – DynamoDB provides fine-grained access control at the table, item, and attribute level, integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used. Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84 4.22 %usr 38.40

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. A higher value for this metric can indicate issues on the master/slave or some network problems. It could also indicate a potential issue, say, an expensive query.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s). Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. Built-in, high-performance ML algorithms, re-engineered for greater, speed, accuracy, and data-throughput.

Tuning 74

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 74

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55