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

DZone

MAY 22, 2019

However, Hive cannot access a single table directly using a single query with the data of this Hive table across different mediums of storage and different clusters. In this regard, data will always reside in the under-storage system as the source of truth and can be residing temporarily in the Alluxio file system.

Storage 100

Storage Systems Virtualization Cloud 100

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog).

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Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Virtual machine metrics Gain insights into the performance of your virtual machines, ensuring that your applications run smoothly. Storage container metrics Track the usage and performance of storage containers to optimize resource allocation.

Virtualization 246

Virtualization Storage Metrics Monitoring 246

DZone

MARCH 19, 2021

File holes do not take up any physical space as the file system does not allocate any disk blocks for a hole until data is written into it. Virtual machine images are examples of spare files. Reading a hole returns a null byte.

Storage 219

Storage Virtualization Systems Performance 219

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Business processes support virtually all aspects of an organizations operations. Sometimes overlooked is a fourth category we might call long-tail processes; these are the ad hoc or custom workflows that develop in response to gaps between systems, applications, departments, or workflows.

Processing 147

Processing Analytics Infrastructure Monitoring 147

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

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Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

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

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. Enel migrated its legacy IT systems to a hybrid cloud model. The IT infrastructure and services will reach $35.98

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Virtualization Scalability Energy Cloud 130

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. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 237

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. Cold storage and rehydration. Cold storage and rehydration. Data that organizations may need to access only once a quarter or year can reside in cold storage.

Analytics 246

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 246

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. Cold storage and rehydration. Cold storage and rehydration. Data that organizations may need to access only once a quarter or year can reside in cold storage.

Analytics 245

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 245

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

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

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

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. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

Analytics 305

Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 305

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. Because a third party manages part of the infrastructure, IT teams give up a measure of control over system architecture. Limited visibility.

Development 279

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 279

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

Storage 94

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 94

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

These containers are software packages that include all the relevant dependencies needed to run software on any system. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). Container-based software isn’t tied to a platform or operating system, so IT teams can move or reconfigure processes easily.

Serverless 297

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 297

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The amount of recordable data is broad, and ranges from basic user browser and web page information to detailed technical information about the system Log4j 2 is running on. How Log4j 2 can be exploited depends on the specifics of the affected system. It logs messages from software, and searches for errors afterwards.

Internet 264

Internet Internet Games Java 264

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 means organizations are increasingly using Kubernetes not just for running applications, but also as an operating system.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. It aims to provide a reliable platform for users to participate in live or pre-recorded workout sessions, virtual training, or fitness tutorials without interruptions. Five example SLOs for faster, more reliable apps 1.

Latency 245

Latency Website Traffic DevOps 245

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Tie latency issues to host and virtualization infrastructure network quality.

Latency 52

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. This can reduce labor costs and enhance reliability by enabling systems to self-heal. By removing physical dependencies, automation can help perform SRE at scale.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

AWS Storage Gateway. AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Alternatively, you can go through Settings > Cloud and virtualization > AWS , select your AWS credential and choose Manage services at the bottom. Amazon SageMaker. AWS Step Functions. AWS OpsWorks. ACM Private CA. Amazon Transfer Family. Amazon Route 53.

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AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 246

Monitoring Programming Serverless Speed 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1. Manual tasks like shutting down virtual machines in bulk or creating database backups can be error prone. Azure Automation accounts allow you to simplify cloud operations by automating the creation and deployment as well as the maintenance of resources in the Azure Cloud and across external systems.

Azure 235

Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 235

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 Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Choose any service, for example, the Elastic File System (EFS) service, to view the list of configured metrics.

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AWS Metrics IoT Storage 200

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix Drive relies on a data store that will be the persistent storage layer for assets, and a metadata store which will provide a relevant mapping from the file system hierarchy to the data store entities. 2 , are the file system interface, the API interface, and the metadata and data stores.

Media 182

Media Storage Architecture Cloud 182

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Dynatrace has added support for the newly introduced Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs for AWS Transit Gateway. 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.

AWS 246

AWS Transportation Network Traffic 246

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. To improve their alerting system, the team decided to move to SLO/SLI-based alerting, which require deeper knowledge of the application but are more helpful than generalized metric alerts. Dynatrace news.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 246

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. DevOps monitoring also helps teams meet their SLAs for system uptime.

DevOps 246

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 246

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario. Conclusion.

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72