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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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. The idea has been that a CDN has fast edge servers that cache content and deliver it based on the user’s geolocation. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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Cache Tuning Storage Website 305

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. As data volumes rapidly increase, streamlined data storage is a top priority.

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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 6, 2025

Message brokers handle validation, routing, storage, and delivery, ensuring efficient and reliable communication. Message Broker vs. Distributed Event Streaming Platform RabbitMQ functions as a message broker, managing message confirmation, routing, storage, and delivery within a queue. What is RabbitMQ?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is the second of a series of articles that is built on top of that project, representing experiments with various statistical and machine learning models, data pipelines implemented using existing DAG tools, and storage services, both cloud-based and alternative on-premises solutions.

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DZone

JUNE 6, 2023

When building an IoT-based service, we need to implement a messaging mechanism that transmits data collected by the IoT devices to a hub or a server. When dealing with IoT, one of the first things that come to mind is the limited processing, networking, and storage capabilities these devices operate with.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Today along with their team, we will see how pvc-autoresizer can automate storage scaling for MongoDB clusters on Kubernetes. Our goal is to automate storage scaling when our disk reaches a certain threshold of use and simultaneously reduce the amount of alert noise related to that. kubectl annotate pvc --all resize.topolvm.io/storage_limit="100Gi"

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These events are promptly relayed from the client side to our servers, entering a centralized event processing queue. The enriched data is seamlessly accessible for both real-time applications via Kafka and historical analysis through storage in an Apache Iceberg table.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity.

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DZone

MAY 7, 2023

By the end of the tutorial, you’ll have a running Spring Boot app that serves as an HTTP API server with ScyllaDB as the underlying data storage. Additionally, an HTTP API tool, Postman, is used to interact with our application and to test the API functionality. And you’ll learn how ScyllaDB can be used to store time series data.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Hardware - servers/storage hardware/software faults such as disk failure, disk full, other hardware failures, servers running out of allocated resources, server software behaving abnormally, intra DC network connectivity issues, etc. Monitor the servers on various parameters and build redundancy.

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Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Cloud-server monitoring. Cloud storage monitoring.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

Not only has near-infinitely scalable cloud storage reduced the burden of storing large video files, but CDNs (content delivery networks) deployed by video streaming and social media giants in this timeframe have all but eliminated those slow server-to-client buffering times, which initially plagued the user experience.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI requires more compute and storage. Training AI data is resource-intensive and costly, again, because of increased computational and storage requirements. As a result, AI observability supports cloud FinOps efforts by identifying how AI adoption spikes costs because of increased usage of storage and compute resources.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

Masking at storage: Data is persistently masked upon ingestion into Dynatrace. Leverage three masking layers Masking at capture and masking at storage operations exclude targeted sensitive data points. When using Dynatrace OneAgent ® , captured data doesn’t leave the monitored environment.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. Identify under-performing DNS servers. Slower response times can be a sign of a stressed DNS server or network communication issues.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Flexible Storage : The service is designed to integrate with various storage backends, including Apache Cassandra and Elasticsearch , allowing Netflix to customize storage solutions based on specific use case requirements. Note : With Cassandra 4.x

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Latency Storage Traffic Infrastructure 237

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

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Storage Engineering Database Open Source 114

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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But there’s more than just a need for minimizing resource (CPU, memory, storage) and network (bandwidth) consumption for observability at the edge. ActiveGate acts as a secure proxy and compresses and routes observability signals in an optimized manner to Dynatrace servers. Data is integrated seamlessly with Kubernetes topology.

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Retail Storage Analytics Cloud 306

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " In from of them is a networking layer, and the in-memory storage layer holds the actual data.

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Serverless container offerings such as AWS Fargate enable companies to manage and modify containers while abstracting server layers to offer customization without increased complexity. IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. Serverless container services. CaaS vs. IaaS.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

They've posted about Anna's new superpowers in Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale : Using Anna v0 as an in-memory storage engine, we set out to address the cloud storage problems described above. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. Related Articles.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now? which was released as Percona Server for MongoDB RC 7.0.2-1.

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Availability Servers Database Open Source 120

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

Too many concurrent server requests can lead to website crashes if youre not equipped to deal with them. You can free up space and reduce the load on your server by compressing and optimizing images. With Cloudways Autonomous your website is hosted on multiple servers instead of just one.

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Traffic Website Design Cache 86

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. The dashboard tracks a histogram chart of total storage utilized with logs daily. It also tracks the top five log producers by entity.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Azure makes this easy to setup through the use of a Virtual Network (VNET) which can be configured for your MySQL servers. With an Azure VNET for MySQL , you’re able to setup secure communications between your servers, the internet, and even your on-premise private cloud network. MySQL Production Deployments: Premium Disks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

These include options where replay traffic generation is orchestrated on the device, on the server, and via a dedicated service. Moreover, allowing the device to execute untested server-side code paths can inadvertently expose an attack surface area for potential misuse. We will examine these alternatives in the upcoming sections.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 345

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

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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. See performance tests to determine the impact of the Meltdown CPU kernel patch on your MongoDB servers.

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DZone

MAY 16, 2023

Virtualization is a technology that can create servers, storage devices, and networks all in virtual space. One area that virtualization technology is making a huge impact is the security sector. How Is Virtualization Technology Used? Devices connect to a virtual network to share data and resources.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Our monitoring coverage already includes ?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

EC2 instances on AWS are virtual servers that can be used to run applications and services on the AWS cloud. They are characterized by resources such as CPU, RAM, storage capacity, or even bandwidth. Before you even begin exploring the different AWS EC2 instances , it is necessary to know your needs and your use cases.

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