The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems. A minimal Loglet needs to provide totally ordered, durable storage via the shared log API. Every little helps! The NativeLoglet. Delos in production.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Memory (GiB).

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40