The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources.

Cache 209

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 209

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The service should be able to serve real-time, aka UI, applications so CRUD and search operations should be achieved with low latency. A data model in Marken can be described using schema — just like how we create schemas for database tables etc. The databases we pick should be able to scale horizontally.

Scalability 283

Scalability Latency Media Architecture 283

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This spans from the end user’s experience down to the performance of underlying database queries, and from the application code down to the hardware resources it utilizes. Users of Dynatrace can gain comprehensive insights into every aspect of the application delivery chain. Dynatrace is a platform that satisfies all these criteria.

Efficiency 219

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 219

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases.

Metrics 175

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 175

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Surveys from our recent Automation Pulse Report underscore this sentiment: 57% of C-level executives say the absence of data observability and data flow analysis makes it difficult to drive automation in a compliant way. An erroneous change in the database system leads to a subset of the data being categorized incorrectly.

DevOps 197

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 197

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Sometimes the challenge in trace analysis is to find where the issue is, but for this issue that part of the analysis was trivial. Analysis of clicking on non-explorer programs shows that ShellExperienceHost.exe becomes active much faster when RuntimeBroker.exe is out of the picture, but the visible menu delays are still not great.

Latency 79

Latency Cache Programming Operating System 79

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Read/Write latency. Data Placement. System Coordination.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d This simplifies debugging and analysis processes by enabling users to execute the same query.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 119

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. Our system doesn’t require strict consistency guarantees and does not use database transactions.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. A new record entering a database table. Tasks like API requests, database calls, and file system management are perfect candidates for this service.

Lambda 183

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 183

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Experienced database administrators learn to spot patterns that can lead to common problems. Organizations look to observability to provide the data they need for contextual analysis.

Monitoring 226

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 226

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. But a very close analysis of wait_events from pg_stat_activity can tell us the story as closely as possible. pg_gather analysis report can show wait events and other information associated with each session.

Network 61

Network Performance Latency Servers 61

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Once teams centralize their telemetry data, an observability platform can provide analysis that enriches the value of the data. Observability platforms provide root-cause analysis.

Artificial Intelligence 182

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 182

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. What is workload in cloud computing? This opens up possibilities not only difficult but almost impossible to attain conventionally! Additionally.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 93

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

This meant a lot of time was spent on things like cycle time analysis, build pipeline design, test automation, and infrastructure automation. Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. And data was at the heart of the problem. How do you do that effectively?

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

IPA: invariant-preserving applications for weakly consistent replicated databases Balegas et al., Our insight is that in many situations the effects to restore the database integrity can be applied preventively alongside the original operations, repairing the invariant violation automatically in a conflicting execution. VLDB’19.

Database 42

Database Latency Games Design 42

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

Lambda 98

Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Operational Reporting is a reporting paradigm specialized in covering high-resolution, low-latency data sets, serving detailed day-to-day activities¹ and processes of a business domain. In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. When an upstream schema evolves (e.g.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Management of stateful applications Although stateless applications are frequently associated with Kubernetes, this flexible platform can also effectively handle stateful workloads, such as database management.

Efficiency 99

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

Instead, an analysis needs to be done. In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what.

Games 118

Games Latency Traffic Cache 118

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This enables us to use our scale to increase throughput and reduce latencies. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., Similar to chunk-based encoding , the VQS workflow consists of chunk-based quality calculations, followed by an assembly step. The workflow is initiated.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience. Migrate databases intelligently. All applications require access to databases, so databases and the services that depend on them should be migrated in tandem. Migrate by function rather than by resource.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Scaling Policies To address the thundering herd problem and to keep latencies under acceptable thresholds, the cluster scale-up policies are configured to be more aggressive than the scale-down policies. Furthermore, in addition to real-time alerting, we added trend analysis for important metrics to help catch longer term degradations.

Systems 334

Systems Traffic Architecture Mobile 334

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Broadly, these can be categorized as: reporting and dashboarding, embedded statistics in pages, time-series monitoring, and ad-hoc analysis. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117