The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. This insight led us to build Edgar: a distributed tracing infrastructure and user experience. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2023

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service for highly demanding enterprise database workloads. This capability allows users to gain more real-time insight into their Google Cloud infrastructure with AI-powered context to automate business and cloud operations decisions.

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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. Estimates show that NVIDIA, a semiconductor manufacturer, could release 1.5

Cache 204

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 204

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Putting logs into context with metrics, traces, and the broader application topology enables and improves how companies manage their cloud architectures, platforms and infrastructure, optimizing applications and remediate incidents in a highly efficient way. Leverage log analytics for additional context.

Cloud 259

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a rather simple move as it doesn’t directly impact your infrastructure, just your contract with your electricity provider. Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. A PUE of 1.0

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Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 209

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2021

To avoid blind spots that get in the way of efficient root cause analysis and increase resolution times, such teams need an enterprise-scale platform that provides a holistic end-to-end view across all the services they are responsible for. PurePath integrates OpenTelemetry Java data for enterprise-grade collection and contextual analytics.

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Java Analytics Metrics Database 156

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Real-Time Device Tracking with In-Memory Computing Can Fill an Important Gap in Today’s Streaming Analytics Platforms. We are increasingly surrounded by intelligent IoT devices, which have become an essential part of our lives and an integral component of business and industrial infrastructures. The list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Data Lake Analytics. Manual tasks like shutting down virtual machines in bulk or creating database backups can be error prone. Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that enables you to quickly and efficiently create automated data pipelines—without writing any code. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Event Grid.

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Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 155

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

With 99% of organizations using multicloud environments , effectively monitoring cloud operations with AI-driven analytics and automation is critical. IT operations analytics (ITOA) with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities supports faster cloud deployment of digital products and services and trusted business insights.

Analytics 188

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 188

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. However, cloud infrastructure has become increasingly complex. Further, the delivery infrastructure that makes this happen has also become complex. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Analytics Software Software Storage 191

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. With Grail, we have reinvented analytics for converged observability and security data,” Greifeneder says. This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases.

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 186

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

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. These traditional approaches to log monitoring and log analytics thwart IT teams’ goal to address infrastructure performance problems, security threats, and user experience issues.

Analytics 221

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 221

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. They enable IT teams to identify and address the precise cause of application and infrastructure issues.

Analytics 187

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 187

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

There are several problems efficient test scheduling could help us solve: Quickly detect a regression in the integration of the Netflix SDK on a consumer electronic or MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) device. We wanted the to tool be available as a standalone library as well as scalable API service.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Key Takeaways A hybrid cloud platform combines private and public cloud providers with on-premises infrastructure to create a flexible, secure, cost-effective IT environment that supports scalability, innovation, and rapid market response. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Efficient service discovery and automatic recommendations As soon as OneAgent is deployed on previously unmonitored hosts, it shows all findings gathered with lightweight eBPF Service Discovery. Infrastructure monitoring mode offers the same capabilities except tracing and profiling.

Analytics 173

Analytics Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 173

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Instead, we use a wrapper that pulls in the latest version of Conductor and adds Netflix infrastructure components and libraries before deployment.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM is one of the practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. The IT service catalog is typically a database or resource that an organization creates to provide users with information on their operational services and offerings. It is much more than just IT support. Service Catalog. Problem Management.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

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. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Check out the following use cases to learn how to drive innovation from development to production efficiently and securely with platform engineering observability. He goes on to review the following newly launched capabilities from Dynatrace: Infrastructure & Operations app.

Engineering 182

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 182

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

The paradigm spans across methods, tools, and technologies and is usually defined in contrast to analytical reporting and predictive modeling which are more strategic (vs. In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. tactical) in nature. When an upstream schema evolves (e.g.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This architectural method encompasses software containers, service meshes, microservices , immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs to create an environment that is inherently scalable, extendable, and easy to manage through automation. Immutable infrastructure. Microservices. Default to managed services.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., Typically, organizations build specialized infrastructure for each of these use cases. This, however, creates silos of data and processing, and results in a complex, expensive, and harder to maintain infrastructure. VLDB’19. are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Think of containers as the packaging for microservices that separate the content from its environment – the underlying operating system and infrastructure. The “scheduler” determines the placement of new containers so compute resources are used most efficiently. Networking.

Open Source 302

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 302

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. The broad Amazon EC2 customer base brings such diversity in workload and utilization patterns that it allows us to operate Amazon EC2 with extreme efficiency.

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. The growth of Azure cloud computing.

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Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 137

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. The results are saved to a database so they can be reused.

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229