InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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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. Atlas is an in-memory time-series database that ingests multiple billions of time-series per day and retains the last two weeks of data.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

And an O’Reilly Media survey indicated that two-thirds of survey respondents have already adopted generative AI —a form of AI that uses training data to create text, images, code, or other types of content that reflect its users’ natural language queries. AI requires more compute and storage. AI performs frequent data transfers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. What is Microsoft Hyper-V?

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. Active data includes jobs and tasks that are currently running. Titus Gateway handles user requests.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! 1) Enterprise data centres will continue to close. Tim Bray : How to talk about [Serverless Latency] · To start with, don’t just say “I need 120ms.” See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. This combination allows for the fluid movement of data and applications across different environments, facilitating shared workloads seamlessly.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It can happen on an edge API system servicing customer devices, between the edge and mid-tier services, or from mid-tiers to data stores. The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

ML algorithms can be only as good as the data that we provide to it. This post will focus on the large volume of high-quality data stored in Axion?—?our Figure 1: Netflix ML Architecture Fact: A fact is data about our members or videos. An example of data about members is the video they had watched or added to their My List.

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High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. 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. Not so many this week.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. Access your cluster health data in Dynatrace Managed.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Because they had too many data processing systems! ;). VLDB’19. are divided.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

Netflix, and particularly Studio applications (and Studio in the Cloud) produce petabytes of data backed by billions of media assets. To support such use cases, access control at the user workspace and project workspace granularity is extremely important for presenting a globally consistent view of pertinent data to these artists.

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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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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 ().

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As VMAF evolves and is integrated with more encoding and streaming workflows within Netflix, we need scalable ways of fostering video quality innovations. The Reloaded system is a well-matured and scalable system, but its monolithic architecture can slow down rapid innovation. via bug fixes). The workflow is initiated.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. > 128GB), we recommend turning on NUMA interleaving.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

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Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making. If the data is common between multiple services, the database layer gets extricated out of microservices in favor of the creation of a common shared data layer. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Application State Management and Data-Driven Decision Making. If the data is common between multiple services, the database layer gets extricated out of microservices in favor of the creation of a common shared data layer. In these use cases, data processing usually has less than a 5 milliseconds latency budget.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., The data we have collected demonstrate that many of the assumptions that researchers have made about how NVDIMMs would behave and perform are incorrect. The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM. FAST’20.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why? We are expected to process 1,000 watermarks for a single distribution in a minute, with non-linear latency growth as the number of watermarks increases.

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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. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon Redshift.

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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. You can use these services in combinations that are tailored to help your business move faster, lower IT costs, and support scalability. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon Redshift.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. It provides support for a range of message protocols, buffering, and scalable message distribution to downstream services.

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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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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Building data pipelines can offer strategic advantages to the business. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines. Data pipeline initiatives are generally unfinished projects. In this post, we will discuss why you should avoid building data pipelines in first place.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. For decades because the only database choice was a relational database, no matter the shape or function of the data in the application, the data was modeled as relational. The opposite is true. Purpose-built databases.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. better cluster resource utilization.

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