InfoQ

APRIL 12, 2024

Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering. By Yao Yue

Engineering 99

Engineering Performance Design Scalability 99

InfoQ

MAY 8, 2024

Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how can CPUs and GPUs be utilized? By Jules Damji

Tuning 89

Tuning Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering 89

InfoQ

MAY 22, 2024

Suhail Patel discusses the platforms and software patterns that made microservices popular, and how virtual machines and containers have influenced how software is built and run at scale today. By Suhail Patel

Software 81

Software Software Virtualization Scalability 81

InfoQ

APRIL 25, 2024

Jenna Zeigen discusses front-end performance issues encountered by Slack as they continue to grow and evolve the desktop app. By Jenna Zeigen

Performance 96

Performance Design Scalability Architecture 96

DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices. In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture.

Systems 274

Systems Virtualization Architecture Scalability 274

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Surabhi Diwan discusses how the Netflix’ membership team outgrew many of its technology and architectural choices as memberships went from a few hundred thousand to 200 million. By Surabhi Diwan

Architecture 66

Architecture Technology Technology Design 66

DZone

MARCH 2, 2023

It must be said that this video traffic phenomenon primarily owes itself to modernizations in the scalability of streaming infrastructure, which simply weren’t present fifteen years ago.

Social Media 269

Social Media Java Traffic Internet 269

DZone

MARCH 12, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, managing resource scalability in response to service demand has emerged as a critical challenge. However, this presented a significant friction point in current operating models.

Scalability 152

Scalability Cloud Infrastructure Design 152

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services. By Frank Yu

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

InfoQ

MARCH 16, 2024

Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu discuss some of the tricks used in their pursuit to lower read latency and to reach 1M operations per second per node. By Alex Dubrouski, Gaojie Liu

Latency 83

Latency Design Scalability Architecture 83

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

Performance 110

Performance C++ Architecture Systems 110

DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Sharding is often applied to databases for several reasons, including improving query performance , facilitating data organization , and enhancing scalability. The above diagram presents a visual representation of a sharded database. The primary database is segmented into smaller shards, each of which is stored on a distinct server.

Database 228

Database Scalability Servers Performance 228

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

Latency 52

Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When we merge these two concepts together and present them to the customer, we have the plan selection page (shown above). This implies that the presentation layer should be void of any business logic and should simply be responsible for rendering data that is passed to it.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00. 2021-08-20T09:19:47+00:00.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

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.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

Design 89

Design Systems Performance Scalability 89

InfoQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Aditi Gupta discusses the design choices made early on during service development that were crucial to scaling operations later on at Netflix. By Aditi Gupta

Design 55

Design Development Scalability Architecture 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform accelerates cloud operations, helping organizations achieve service-level objectives (SLOs) with automated intelligence and unmatched scalability. Saving your cloud operations and SRE teams hours of guesswork and manual tagging, the Davis AI engine analyzes billions of events in real time.

AWS 286

AWS Lambda Serverless Virtualization 286

HammerDB

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For most purposes this did not present an Issue and the HammerDB display rendered correctly up to 1920 x 1080 Full HD displays. Similarly it was necessary to use scalable fonts to ensure that the text scaled alongside the graphics. Finally it was needed to update the graphical Oracle metrics with the same scalability settings.

Scalability 52

Scalability Metrics Tuning C++ 52

InfoQ

MARCH 25, 2022

Selina Liu walks through what it takes to decompose a large and complex monolith into independent, performant services, and how they evolve and scale the architecture with changing business needs. By Selina Liu.

Architecture 57

Architecture Performance Design Scalability 57

DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies.

Performance Testing 220

Performance Testing Testing Tools Testing Performance 220

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

Watching every moment of content to find the best frames and select them manually takes a lot of time, and this approach is often not scalable. With the AVA Discovery View, all the prominent characters of the title and their best possible shots are presented to the creatives.

Media 169

Media Scalability Architecture Strategy 169

Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

Observability data presents executives with new opportunities to achieve this, by creating incremental value for cloud modernization , improved business analytics , and enhanced customer experience. Drive innovation To remain competitive, executives are seeking productivity gains while simultaneously driving modernization initiatives.

Technology 206

Technology Technology Analytics Storage 206

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix. In the next section, we will highlight some high level areas of focus in each dimension of our infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Features enabling automation and orchestration should be present to simplify operations, minimize mistakes, and expedite data integration. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 – Another presentation on resource optimization – this one from Salesforce.

Efficiency 100

Efficiency Artificial Intelligence Scalability Performance 100

InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

Michelle Garrett talks about the journey of introducing and then scaling a GraphQL BFF to serve multiple applications. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. By Michelle Garrett.

Processing 93

Processing Design Scalability Architecture 93

InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

InfoQ

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Phil Calçado explores how they dealt with the hyper growth phase and what are the changes and initiatives they have put in place to make sure that they keep growing and pushing the envelope. By Phil Calçado

Design 52

Design Scalability Architecture Performance 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

A traditional log management solution uses an often manual and siloed approach, which limits scalability and ultimately hinders organizational innovation. ” But, he continues, ” Today’s environments present a completely different picture. And according to 451 Research, 83% of organizations plan to adapt their monitoring process.

Analytics 147

Analytics Innovation Infrastructure Scalability 147

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. Data Featurization A complete list of features used in this work is presented in Table 1. The features mainly belong to two distinct classes.

C++ 312

C++ Metrics Tuning Strategy 312

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues. Therefore, they experience how the application code functions and how the application operations depend on the underlying hardware resources and the operating system managed by Hyper-V.

Efficiency 220

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

Engineering 232

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 232

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?

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288