The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Data Mesh Overview A New Definition Of Data Mesh Previously, we defined Data Mesh as a fully managed, streaming data pipeline product used for enabling Change Data Capture (CDC) use cases. This design enables us to reuse and share data as much as possible. This article gives an overview of the system.

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Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. We want users to rely on shared templates and reuse their workflow definitions across their team, saving time and effort on creating the same functionality. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While DevOps is often referred to as “agile operations,” the widely quoted definition from Jez Humble, co-author of The DevOps Handbook, calls it “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving, and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.”

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said. One of the main roadblocks that arises with a broader definition for DevOps is responsibility. How do [developers] make the things that are most likely to break, easily accessible?”

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Percona

APRIL 11, 2023

The unique quiz Consider the following MySQL table definition. These can occur accidentally due to poor database design or through the use of database management tools that automatically create indexes without checking for duplicates. Toward the end, we will identify what the pt-duplicate-key-checker doesn’t.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three Rule owners are responsible for making sure the requirements match the rule definition and request context.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Percona

JULY 25, 2023

So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. the IBD file is “self-describing”; for example, the table schema is available within an IBD file.

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Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 84

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. G2 Research includes a clear definition of APM in its Grid Report for Application Performance Monitoring for Spring 2021. How to evaluate APM solutions. The Dynatrace approach: APM and beyond.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. In this scenario, it is also crucial to be efficient in resource utilization and scaling with frugality. In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in.

Games 119

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ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Throughout, we adopt the Greenhouse Gas Protocol scope definition as used in Prof.

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Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

The Metrics API v2 is the first v2 API available in Dynatrace. Metrics API v2 is designed in a RESTful way to allow you to discover which metrics are available, retrieve metadata, and to execute sophisticated time series queries. metrics/series ( Deprecated —available until September 2020). GET /metrics.

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2020

To do that, we need an easy and efficient API access to all of our Dynatrace Environments, without having to create and maintain API access tokens of individual tenants. It would definitely make my life easier! I wanted a rather lightweight design that is yet versatile. Consolidating the APIs. Concurrency, fan-out, fan-in.

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Cache Serverless Efficiency Tuning 235

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

To directly support great decision-making throughout the company, there are a number of data science teams at Netflix that partner directly with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business units to design, execute, and learn from experiments. see the end of those relationships when members elect to cancel. Sensitivity analysis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, Netflix is available for streaming on thousands of types of devices and it is powered by hundreds of micro-services which are deployed independently, making it extremely challenging to comprehensively test internally. Additionally, this gets us closer to consistent metric definitions in both realtime and offline systems.

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Metrics Mobile Testing Strategy 197

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. As a basis for that discussion, first some definitions: Dependability The degree to which a product or service can be relied upon.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Rendering Visualizations with Plotly Democratization across 3 tracks: Metrics, Stats, Viz The new architecture employs a modular design that permits data scientists to contribute using SQL, Python, and R, the tools of their trade. It centralizes metrics definitions which used to be scattered across many teams.

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Metrics Architecture Infrastructure Innovation 215

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Working on my PhD, I was using optimization techniques to design radiotherapy fractionation schemes to improve the results of clinical practices. My academic credentials definitely helped on the technical side. How do you, as a data scientist, fill in the pieces between product, engineering, and design?

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. It's not because there are no other options available to them because of structural issues. There's a huge short-term and long-term efficiency of services that depends on the successful coordination of cloud services and infrastructure.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Additionally, they enable the implementation of sophisticated business logic within the database, streamlining repetitive tasks and enhancing overall efficiency. However, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks, especially if poorly designed. Well-designed indexes can significantly improve query performance within triggers.

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Cache Database Games Healthcare 59

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2019

Our API-first design promotes automation. With Dynatrace version 1.172, an updated of our metrics API endpoint (version 2) is now available. The latest version is based on our improved metrics framework, which provides: A logical tree structure for all available metric types. api/v2/metrics/descriptors.

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Metrics Efficiency Monitoring Azure 102

Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

PostgreSQL Partition Manager — ‘pg_partman’ — is an open source extension freely available, widely supported, and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. pg_partman creates and manages both time-based and serial-based table partition sets. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

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Storage Open Source Database Efficiency 97

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. The Emergence of Defect Driven Faults A key focus of RAS design has been to cope with particle-induced transient faults (aka “soft errors”). AVF modeling was developed for such faults.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It is designed to run in specific environments, like Java Virtual Machine for instance. This means that in the beginning, it was designed like most conventional programming languages from that era. Scala was designed from the very beginning to be a functional programming language. Available Tools and Frameworks.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? Thomas Bohm. More after jump!

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. Design tools suitable for professional use don’t exist yet, but they will appear very soon.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

We saw how important it is to keep the typographic design parameters and variables the same to get a more accurate result while testing different typefaces. Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Measurement: Research and design effort based on not good, okay, very good. Did you miss out on it?

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Performance Design Speed Testing 95

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient. And if the query processes 100 million rows, that’s definitely not trivial! GOOD-NEWS: The CITUS extension is available on the Citus Data download page.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While there isn’t an authoritative definition for the term, it shares its ethos with its predecessor, the DevOps movement in software engineering: by adopting well-defined processes, modern tooling, and automated workflows, we can streamline the process of moving from development to robust production deployments.

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

” The VR and XR gear will have a futuristic design. New XR add-ons will be available to enhance your adventure. In the future, they will likely grow more accessible, familiar, and efficient, ushering in yet another technological advance for virtual reality. Say you want to know who designed and built a beautiful structure.

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Development Virtualization Government Media 52

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Low-effort/high-impact actions are easy wins, and definitely worth prioritizing.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A well-designed and practical website is a must-have in today’s digital environment for companies of all sizes, especially when you are out there hiring a web development company. References and Reputation Check the web development company’s references and read any available reviews.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. MySQL, as well as other RDBMS, are designed to work respecting the model and cannot scale in any way by fragmenting and distributing a schema, so what can be done to scale? This is it.

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