The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By June 2023 the entire HDR catalog was optimized. In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. Krasula, S.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 27, 2023. was released on March 27, 2023. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL installs PostgreSQL and complements it with a selection of extensions that enable solving essential practical tasks efficiently. was released on March 31, 2023.

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 77

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In their annual sustainability report in July 2023 AWS did update their list of sustainable regions to highlight 19 regions that are 100% sustainable — using an annual local market methodology for scope 1 and 2. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

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Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 180

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

This way, disruptions are minimized, MTTR is significantly decreased, and DevSecOps and SREs collaborate efficiently to boost productivity. Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application.

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DevOps Software Engineering Games Java 278

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 179

Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

pgBackRest is a highly efficient and versatile tool for managing PostgreSQL backups. This issue tends to occur when your backup storage is located offsite, your database is quite large, and the backup process generates a lot of files. This way, they won’t interfere with each other, enabling efficient parallel execution.

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Database Open Source Storage Servers 94

Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination. At the same time, the common goal is to save both the network bandwidth and storage space (cost savings!) However, I find zstd way more efficient, so I’ll use it in the examples.

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AWS Storage Database Open Source 120

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This issue most often occurs when there is significant MySQL server activity during the backup operation, and the redo log file storage media operates faster than the backup storage media. Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. root@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xx ~]# mysqlsh -uroot -p MySQL Shell 8.0.33 Type 'help' or '?'

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. Data Integrity: This is crucial for ensuring a reliable and efficient database.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the below query, we’re specifically searching for pending deposit transactions greater than $8,000 that occurred between 10:00:04 AM and 12:00:00 AM on August 21, 2023. This alert serves as a valuable tool in maintaining operational efficiency, ensuring business continuity, and delivering optimal customer experiences.

Database 263

Database Artificial Intelligence Metrics Monitoring 263

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.

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 199

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Deriving business value with AI, IT automation, and data reliability When it comes to increasing business efficiency, boosting productivity, and speeding innovation, artificial intelligence takes center stage. What is explainable AI?

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Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 179

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As we at Percona wind down 2023 and look into what the next year holds, our attention is drawn to the cloud-native landscape and how it is maturing, growing, and evolving. KubeCon NA 2023 recap The theme for KubeCon NA was very clear — AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

DEFAULT ‘on’::text Because we specified ‘2’ for premake in the create_parent function, you can observe that two partitions ahead have been created, as shown in the table definition below.

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Storage Open Source Database Efficiency 100

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Data storage limitations Today’s traditional monitoring tools often involve a tradeoff between storing much of the available observability, security, and business data—which is costly—and determining which data to store upfront. Four factors limit the quality and trustworthiness of traditional approaches to cloud monitoring.

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Analytics Storage Cloud DevOps 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, its modern architecture delivers cost-effective storage and compute. As a result, teams benefit from low-cost cloud storage that provides access to all data and doesn’t require data rehydration.

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Analytics Storage Cloud Code 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was a great privilege. ## SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. Increased Storage Requirements : One of the disadvantages of full backups is the increased storage requirements due to the fact that they capture a complete copy of all data and files. What is an incremental backup? What is an incremental backup?

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

According to the 2023 Dynatrace CIO Report , 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. This SLO highlights the importance of a smooth and efficient checkout experience. But how do you get started, and what are some service level objective examples? Thus, an ApDex score of 0.85 or above for the checkout process.

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Latency Website Traffic Virtualization 171

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

“For the first time, we have a consistent API to gather this data across many different languages and a consistent protocol for all these signals,” said Michael Kopp, application observability product lead at Dynatrace, during a recent talk at Perform 2023. It’s also being built into Kubernetes.”

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Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 189

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2023

According to the 2023 Dynatrace CIO Report , 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. This SLO example highlights the importance of a smooth and efficient checkout experience. 54% deploy updates every two hours or less, and 20% deploy updates every minute or less. or above for the checkout process.

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Traffic Latency Website Virtualization 173

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Non-relational databases: Instead of tables, non-relational (NoSQL) databases use document-based data storage, column-oriented storage, and graph databases.

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. Our goal was to filter for metrics that deliver the data we need while minimizing storage costs.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 171

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this case, the backups should be stored on some object storage. For example, my demo - cluster configuration in 04-deploy-cr.yaml looks like this if I want to take the backups to Google Cloud Storage (GCS): pgbackrest: global: - secret: name: demo-cluster-gcs. Please use our documentation to configure backups.

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Storage Database Media Open Source 94

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). Craig Kerstiens, crunchydata, August 2023 ) That evolution has created lots of reasons for its expanding popularity.

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. The key factor is that the whole data structure resides in the same location (node), facilitating the operations.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2019 and was updated in September 2023. Character encoding refers to the method used to represent characters as binary data for storage and transmission. The choice of character set and encoding impacts not only efficiency but also how the data appears to users.

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

Hash keys are used effectively and efficiently in cases where ranges are not applicable, like employee number, product ID, etc. What if the data is out of range or list? For this purpose, we use default partitions on range and list partitioned tables.

Storage 82

Storage Database Performance Open Source 82

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

In the absence of measured data, a model based on a table of default values measured on datacenter systems could be used, taking into account CPU types, power usage efficiency (PUE), and over-all utilization levels. There are also control plane overheads, shared storage volumes and supporting services to instrument.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2022 and was updated in July 2023. Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification. What is an Index?

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Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 77

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

This blog was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in June 2023. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance.

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The findings from our 2023 Open Source Database Report highlight that a substantial 42% of all database instances are now licensed through community-supported open source models, and GitHub reports that over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have established open source program offices (OSPO) to coordinate and manage their open source initiatives.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52