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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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This decoupling simplifies system architecture and supports scalability in distributed environments. Message brokers handle validation, routing, storage, and delivery, ensuring efficient and reliable communication. Scalability and Redundancy Both Kafka and RabbitMQ are built for scalability and redundancy but take different approaches.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Youll also learn strategies for maintaining data safety and managing node failures so your RabbitMQ setup is always up to the task. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ improves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems by decoupling applications, enabling reliable message exchanges.

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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?

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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.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 provides faster processing, greater efficiency, and better scalability for modern database needs. Unlike full backups that duplicate everything, incremental backups store only changes since the last save, reducing storage needs and speeding up recovery. How do incremental backups work in PostgreSQL 17?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Cloud storage monitoring. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. An effective IT infrastructure monitoring strategy includes the following best practices: Determine the best cloud tooling and services for your specific cloud environment.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Such as: RedisInsight Offers an easy way for users to oversee their Redis information with visual cues; Prometheus Providing long-term metrics storage solutions when tracking performance trends involving your instances; Grafana – Its user-friendly interface allows advanced capabilities in observing each instance.

Strategy 130

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Key Takeaways Enterprise cloud security is vital due to increased cloud adoption and the significant financial and reputational risks associated with security breaches; a multilayered security strategy that includes encryption, access management, and compliance is essential.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. This flexibility allows our Data Platform to route different use cases to the most suitable storage system based on performance, durability, and consistency needs.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Such as: RedisInsight – Offers an easy way for users to oversee their Redis® information with visual cues; Prometheus – Providing long-term metrics storage solutions when tracking performance trends involving your instances; Grafana – Its user-friendly interface allows advanced capabilities in observing each instance.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Let’s delve deeper into how these capabilities can transform your observability strategy, starting with our new syslog support. Dynatrace supports scalable data ingestion, ensuring your observability infrastructure grows with your cloud environment. The dashboard tracks a histogram chart of total storage utilized with logs daily.

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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.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasing an organization’s DevOps maturity is a key goal as teams adopt more cloud-native technologies, which simultaneously makes their environments more scalable and feature-rich but also more complex. Indexless means teams have rapid access to data without the storage cost and resources needed to maintain massive indexes.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. More than 70% of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey now consider IT automation to be a strategic component of their digital transformation strategies. What is IT automation? – blog What is IT automation?

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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. The IT infrastructure and services will reach $35.98 billion by 2025.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

A traditional log management solution uses an often manual and siloed approach, which limits scalability and ultimately hinders organizational innovation. These solutions often provide better scalability and performance than on-premises solutions, while still providing broad infrastructure coverage. Reduce costs and inefficiencies.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

Dehydrated data has been compressed or otherwise altered for storage in a data warehouse. Observability starts with the collection, storage, and accessibility of multiple sources. Dynatrace Grail introduces a new architectural design that addresses both of these issues to provide both rich data management and low-cost cloud storage.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, with a generative AI solution and strategy underpinning your AWS cloud, not only can organizations automate daily operations based on high-fidelity insights pulled into context from a multitude of cloud data sources, but they can also leverage proactive recommendations to further accelerate their AWS usage and adoption.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

The first version of our logger library optimized for storage by deduplicating facts and optimized for network i/o using different compression methods for each fact. Since we were optimizing at the logging level for storage and performance, we had less data and metadata to play with to optimize the query performance.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 195

Dynatrace

JANUARY 22, 2024

Marketers can use these insights to better understand which messages resonate with customers and tailor their marketing strategies accordingly. Data lakehouses combine a data lake’s flexible storage with a data warehouse’s fast performance. That’s why many organizations turn to data lakehouses.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Retail Government 264

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This article will help you understand the core differences in data structure, scalability, and use cases. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered. Choosing the right database often comes down to MongoDB vs MySQL.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement. Read/Write scalability. The first figure below depicts logical relationships between different techniques and their coordinates in the system of the consistency-scalability-availability-latency tradeoffs. It sounds like a big umbrella, and it is. Read/Write latency.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Today’s organizations flock to multicloud environments for myriad reasons, including increased scalability, agility, and performance. Grail handles data storage, data management, and processes data at massive speed, scale, and cost efficiency,” Singh said. An overview of the Dynatrace unified observability and security platform.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Engineering Technology 245

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

This talk will delve into the creative solutions Netflix deploys to manage this high-volume, real-time data requirement while balancing scalability and cost. In this talk, Jessica Larson shares her takeaways from building a new data platform post-GDPR.

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Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies. Scalability and Flexibility Scalability in DBMS refers to the system’s capacity to expand and accommodate the growing data needs of an organization.

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VoltDB

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Edge computing will process and filter this data before sending only the most relevant insights to the cloud, making large-scale IIoT deployments more feasible and reducing cloud storage and bandwidth costs. Assess your infrastructure Evaluate your current IIoT network and identify areas where edge computing could add value.

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IoT Energy Latency Automotive 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In addition to the OneAgent collecting all these metrics, Dynatrace has an integration with Azure Monitor to capture additional metrics for platform services such as Storage Accounts, Redis Cache, API Management Services, Load Balancers among others. Organic scalability of the monitoring platform with the applications.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Threat hunting: Dynatrace Security Analytics provides analysts with unique capabilities that enhance productivity by collaboratively investigating suspected attacks, automating response, and implementing proactive threat-hunting strategies. Analysts can leverage AutomationEngine to continuously monitor and respond to future attacks.

Analytics 246

Analytics Metrics Database Storage 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A growth strategy involves identifying core focus areas in which an organization excels and where it outperforms others. But DIY is neither sufficient nor scalable to meet enterprise needs in the long run. Organizations should consider which platforms to bet on for their next phase of growth. Automation at scale.

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Innovation Software Software Cloud 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Key Takeaways Understanding the range of MySQL backup types and strategies is essential for optimal data security and efficiency, including full, incremental, differential, and partial backups, each with its advantages and use cases. Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process.

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