The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

While we were able to put out the immediate fire by disabling the newly created alerts, this incident raised some critical concerns around the scalability of our alerting system. It became clear to us that we needed to solve the scalability problem with a fundamentally different approach. OK, Results?

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Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Application architectures might not be conducive to rehosting. Implement appropriate caching layers (for example, read-only cache for static data). Is the solution to just move all workloads to the cloud?

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Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 214

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” That means multiple data indirections mean multiple cache misses. They are very expensive. This is where your performance goes. There are a few more quotes.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Lambda then takes a snapshot of the memory and disk state of the initialized execution environment, persists the encrypted snapshot, and caches it for low-latency access. Understand and optimize your architecture. Built for enterprise scalability. Optimize timing hotspots. Simplify error analytics.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Once the authentication succeeds: PgBouncer checks for a cached connection, with the same username+database combination. If a cached connection is found, it returns the connection to the client. pgBouncer Architecture | Source. If it violates the max_client_connections restriction, it aborts the connection.

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Cache Architecture Database Servers 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase. The different infrastructure setup reflects economic and technical considerations.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 347

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture. We have chosen this NoSQL based solution over relational databases as it provides the scalability to have hierarchies which go beyond two levels and extensibility due to the schema-less behavior of NoSQL data storage. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. The solution to this challenge is to use scalable, memory-based data storage for fast-changing data so that web sites can keep up with exploding workloads. It’s not enough simply to lash together a set of servers hosting a collection of in-memory caches.

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Cache Storage Servers Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

The Beginning of SpiceDB Caveats The SpiceDB community had already explored integrating SpiceDB with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and concluded it strayed too far from Zanzibar’s core promise of global horizontal scalability with strong consistency. As you’d suspect, this would jeopardize one of the pillars of the system: its ability to scale.

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Cache Google Open Source Systems 249

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. You can also analyze table metrics, such as cache hits and misses. Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. Query performance is measured from both warm and cold caches. VLDB’19. Query restrictions.

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Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As we prepared to launch these features, I was struck not only by the range of services we provide to enable customers to run fully managed, scalable, high performance database workloads, including Amazon RDS , Amazon DynamoDB , Amazon Redshift and Amazon ElastiCache , but also by the pace at which these services are evolving and improving.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity. Practical Applications of DBMS DBMS finds practical applications in various fields.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Organizations are depending more and more on distributed architectures to provide application services. Examples include a spike in memory utilization, a decrease in cache hit ratio, or an increase in CPU utilization. DevOps practitioners struggle to maintain highly available and scalable applications. Dynatrace news.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

When undertaking system migrations, one of the main challenges is establishing confidence and seamlessly transitioning the traffic to the upgraded architecture without adversely impacting the customer experience. It helps expose memory leaks, deadlocks, caching issues, and other system issues.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. In this context, features like filtering, firewalling, or caching are redundant and may consume resources that could be allocated to scaling. MySQL Router was never in the game.

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Games Latency Traffic Cache 119

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Senior DevOps Engineer : Your engineering work will focus on using your deep knowledge of the web stack including firewalls, web applications, caches and data stores ­ to create innovative infrastructure architectures that are resilient, scalable, and blazingly fast.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. There are three common mechanisms to access remote memory: modifying applications, modifying virtual memory, and hardware-level cache coherence support. Such a combination requires new abstractions and programming models for effective management.

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cdemi

MAY 8, 2016

Applications that rely heavily on a data-store usually can benefit greatly from using the Cache-Aside Pattern. If used correctly, this pattern can improve performance and help maintain consistency between the cache and the underlying data store. If the item exists in the cache, you can use that. Lifetime of Cached Data.

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Cache Design C++ Processing 54

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 7, 2017

For stack scalability, elasticity at the business logic layer should be matched with elasticity at the caching layer. Continue reading How to bring fast data access to microservice architecture with in-memory data grids. This use comes with expectations of real-time response, even during peak access times. ?

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Architecture Cache Mobile Scalability 59

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

TenantCache: a cache to store tenant information and API token information and semi-permanent data to avoid unnecessary roundtrips. ? These API tokens are then stored in a local cache (the TenantCache using Redis), alongside with other rather static information of the environments: ? tenant-token the current API token to use.

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Cache Serverless Efficiency Tuning 235

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A message-based microservices architecture offers many advantages, making solutions easier to scale and expand with new services. The asynchronous nature of interservice interactions inherent to this architecture, however, poses challenges for user-initiated actions such as create-read-update-delete (CRUD) requests on an object.

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Architecture Government Latency Efficiency 68

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), web browsers, and proxy servers can store static files in their caches.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

The web apps built on this platform are easy to use, secure, scalable, and flexible. Not just among developers but also clients, Laravel has immense popularity because it simplifies complex tasks like authenticating, routing, caching, and testing content. Thanks to its modular architecture and caching system that offer queued service.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure. When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs. This architecture spans data centers to add more layers of availability to the database cluster.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. Looking beyond distributed caching, it’s their ability to perform data-parallel analysis that gives IMDGs such exciting capabilities.

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Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. Looking beyond distributed caching, it’s their ability to perform data-parallel analysis that gives IMDGs such exciting capabilities.

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Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40