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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Since not all projects are terabytes projects, allocating the largest cloud storage to all packager instances is not an efficient use of cloud resources.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase. Together with messaging systems (+36% growth), organizations are increasingly using databases and caches to persist application workload states. Service meshes : Istio is the most used service mesh.

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Dynatrace Kubernetes Observability for Persistent Volume Claims

Dynatrace

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). You quickly realize that it will take ages to fill up the overprovisioned database storage. Two days later, your database runs out of storage in the middle of the night.

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Redis® Monitoring Strategies for 2024

Scalegrid

To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold. This Command Line Interface (CLI) can be used for basic activity metrics and offers powerful real-time data analysis tools, giving you more control over the performance of your servers.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage. A data lakehouse provides a cost-effective storage layer for both structured and unstructured data. Data management.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

These can help you ensure your system’s health and quickly perform root cause analysis of any performance-related issue you might be encountering. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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