The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In order to be supported, a database is required to fulfill a set of features that are commonly available in systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and others. Designed with High Availability in mind. Providing high availability for real-time events. Some of DBLog’s features are: Processes captured log events in-order.

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SQL Performance

JULY 11, 2019

Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. And recommended system configuration: Two or more cores 8GB or more of memory Operating Systems: Windows (8.1 / Server 2012 R2 or better) macOS (10.13 First, ensure you meet our requirements: Azure Data Studio 1.9.0 or newer ( July announcement post ).NET

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead. Why this is a problem. dm_os_performance_counters.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. The Region launches with two Availability Zones to help customers build highly available applications. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. All Things Distributed. My Best Christmas Present â?? Comments ().

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

The new DGX-2, which achieves 2 petaFLOPS in the system, combines 16 fully interconnected GPUS with 10x the deep learning performance. To my best knowledge, even though the term NPU was first mentioned in a MICRO 2012 paper by Hadi Esmaeilzadeh et al. , the first commercial product named after NPU in industry is from Vimicro in 2016.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. The Baseline Scenario #. How can that be?

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

SQL Performance

AUGUST 15, 2019

Connecting to SQL Server 2012 or better, or Azure SQL Database. And recommended system configuration: Two or more cores 8GB or more of memory Operating Systems: Windows (8.1 / Server 2012 R2 or better) macOS (10.13 First, ensure you meet our requirements: Azure Data Studio 1.9.0 or newer ( July announcement post ).NET

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. Yet many of the most pressing risks are economic , embedded in the financial aims of the companies that control and manage AI systems and services.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. It requires substantial upfront capital investments in cold data storage systems such as tape robots and tape libraries, then thereâ??s provides highly available and highly durable (â??designed

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Customers tell us they poll SQS quickly because they want to retrieve messages as soon as they become available. All Things Distributed. Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. Comments ().

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Often times an external system is providing data as JSON, so it might be a temporary store before data is ingested into other parts of the system. Wave 1: PostgreSQL 9.2 (2012) added support for JSON data type. For example, find all books that are available in braille. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Longer answer follows: Here’s the main part from article, “Design for Manycore Systems” (August 11, 2009).

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Components may take extended periods of time to complete tasks, requests may fail and errors originating from remote systems must be handled. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. By the way, for mission critical OLTP workloads, you should also consider adding the Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option to improve availability. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. Flexibility is in the choice of software and languages running on AWS, in the tools and interfaces available to manipulate resources and applications, and in the ability to leverage services from other providers.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Modern network performance and availability. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 1, 2020

In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system). A scalable, cross-platform content management system is crucial to ensuring a product’s growth velocity. It was developed by Facebook in 2012 and released open-sourced in 2015. What Does This Look Like In Practice?

Open Source 105

Open Source Website Mobile Code 105

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. It's a given that we must design a system, including a local software architecture, that actually runs, that is "solid."

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. Web Workers.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Troy: We love RDS – its reduced our operational workload by a noticeable factor but even more exciting is the benefits around fast recovery enabled by the Multi-Availability Zone capability. Comments ().

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Randon ASCII

MARCH 30, 2020

The colorful graphs of compile times ( live versions available here ) are interactive. This system defaulted to trying to #include 50 source files in each generated file (subject to constraints) and this was configurable. The web page source is available, with the live page itself here. But surely such files would never exist.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yet we continue to find new applications for software: it is increasingly a product differentiator (embedded systems) or a product category of its own (social networking). The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply.

Software 73

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Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. Even in Chromium , DSD was delayed by several quarters; because of the Apple Browser Ban, full ecosystem availability has been postponed for an additional two years. Contrast that level of visible progress with Apple's manufactured scarcity around bug fix information.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

Let’s imagine that it’s 2012 and everyone is using the brand new jQuery 1.8. For those using the Handlebars templating engine, there appear to be options available to you , and if your build process is just basic JavaScript, there are simple solutions there too. What Could Go Wrong?

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Website Servers Code Best Practices 59

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough. In a partitioned massively parallel database system, the storage format and sorting algorithm may not be optimized for that operation as we are reading multiple partitions in parallel. Deleting messages. Text search.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Your NUMA system may not have different processor groups for each node. Here is another example from another two node system I have with one processor group. This is a two node system with 6 cores per node (with HT 12 logical CPUs per node). Why did SQL Server take this 4 node system and now split into 16 nodes?

Servers 45

Servers Virtualization Scalability Hardware 45

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

We believe that installing our software should be as straightforward as we can make it, requiring minimal knowledge of the host operating system and the fewest possible explicit configuration settings. As expected, AppFabric requires the comprehensive knowledge of a Windows system administrator to install and manage.

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Cache Servers Network Design 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

AWS 45

AWS Servers Storage Cloud 45

Alex Russell

AUGUST 20, 2015

Recall that in 2012, Google, Apple, Blackberry, and a host of other vendors were all shipping browsers based on a single CSS engine (WebKit) without changing the -webkit- prefixes to be vendor-specific ; e.g. Experimentation, chances to learn, and opportunities to try alternatives are what separate good ideas from great products.

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