The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

When undertaking system migrations, one of the main challenges is establishing confidence and seamlessly transitioning the traffic to the upgraded architecture without adversely impacting the customer experience. There is also an increased risk that bugs in the replay logic have the potential to impact production code and metrics.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 199

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 199

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. In the 2023 Global CIO Report , 34% of CIOs say they must sacrifice code security given the pressure for faster innovation.

Efficiency 275

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 275

Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone.

Code 93

Code Storage Scalability Engineering 93

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Kubernetes provides many benefits, such as automation and scalability, but it also introduces new complexities when it comes to managing databases. IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. What is better in version 2 compared to version 1?

Availability 96

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 96

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability. It is the most stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL distribution based on Percona Server for MySQL. Release highlights include: Docker images are now available for x86_64 architectures.

Open Source 82

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 82

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Today’s streaming analytics architectures are not equipped to make sense of this rapidly changing information and react to it as it arrives. Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. How will you serve blazingly fast code, then? Jamstack is popular with documentation sites that usually compile code to HTML files and host them on the CDN. Common Websocket Architecture.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

End-to-end code-level tracing. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Dynatrace’s PurePath technology brings us automatic end-to-end code level tracing without having to modify any code or configuration. Full-stack observability.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Cloud observability is central to platform engineering The uptick in digital transformation initiatives has created a drive for scalability among global organizations. Edge computing brings compute and data storage closer to where data is generated to help reduce costs, boost performance, and improve customer experience.

Performance 185

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 185

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Without observability, the benefits of ARM are lost Over the last decade and a half, a new wave of computer architecture has overtaken the world. ARM architecture, based on a processor type optimized for cloud and hyperscale computing, has become the most prevalent on the planet, with billions of ARM devices currently in use.

Efficiency 265

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 265

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL has powerful and advanced features, including asynchronous replication, full-text searches of the database, and native support for JSON-style storage, key-value storage, and XML. That community spans expertise and industries, putting diverse skill sets and fresh perspectives into the review and improvement of code.

Open Source 81

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 81

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

When code many test cases are dependent on has changed, choose the right test cases among thousands of affected tests to quickly validate the change before committing it and running extensive, and expensive, tests. We wanted the to tool be available as a standalone library as well as scalable API service.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

Serverless 279

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 279

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. It also transparently makes use of the IMDG’s scalable computing resources to accelerate the analysis. In-Memory Data Grids for Fast-Changing Data.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. It also transparently makes use of the IMDG’s scalable computing resources to accelerate the analysis. In-Memory Data Grids for Fast-Changing Data.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

An innovative new software approach called “real-time digital twins” running on a cloud-hosted, highly scalable, in-memory computing platform can help address this challenge. What are real-time digital twins and why are they useful here? Field personnel with mobile devices can send these messages over the Internet to the cloud service.

Logistics 52

Logistics Analytics Scalability Cloud 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

An innovative new software approach called “real-time digital twins” running on a cloud-hosted, highly scalable, in-memory computing platform can help address this challenge. What are real-time digital twins and why are they useful here? Field personnel with mobile devices can send these messages over the Internet to the cloud service.

Logistics 52

Logistics Analytics Scalability Cloud 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context.

Artificial Intelligence 267

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 267

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures. What is FaaS? How does function as a service work?

Development 250

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 250

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. As mentioned before, most of data pipelines are not stateless which means scalability is not given a thing.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Further, developers can build more agility into their processes with an intuitive, low-code approach to create custom, compliant, and intelligent data-driven apps and automation. Additionally, its modern architecture delivers cost-effective storage and compute. Indeed, according to one report, more than 50% of U.S.

Analytics 130

Analytics Storage Cloud Code 130

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

That’s mapping applications to the specific architectural choices. The third wing of the architecture piece is the “domain specific system-on-chip.” Cliff Click : The JVM is very good at eliminating the cost of code abstraction, but not the cost of data abstraction. They are very expensive.

Internet 121

Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

Most of use who started coding in the 80s started with BASIC. JoeEmison : Another thing that serverless architectures change: how do you software development. The end of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law means architecture is where we have to innovate to improve performance, cost, and energy. They'll love you even more.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

This dramatically simplifies application code and automatically scales its use by letting the execution platform run this code simultaneously for all stores. In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application can easily and quickly record both telemetry and analytics results for each store.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

This dramatically simplifies application code and automatically scales its use by letting the execution platform run this code simultaneously for all stores. In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application can easily and quickly record both telemetry and analytics results for each store.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

This dramatically simplifies application code and automatically scales its use by letting the execution platform run this code simultaneously for all stores. In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application easily can keep track of both telemetry and analytics results for each store.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Database as a Service (DBaaS) providers are an alternative option that acts almost like going on a cruise ship: quick provisioning is facilitated by them, while scalability, support services, and flexibility benefit from pay-as-you-go models. They also come with some drawbacks—high costs and resources needed for successful management.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brief overview of image coding formats The JPEG format was introduced in 1992 and is widely popular. This is followed by quantization and entropy coding. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Webp is based on intra-frame coding from the VP8 video coding format.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications. Because every DevOps environment is unique, exactly how organizations implement these monitoring types will differ depending on architecture and tools.

DevOps 219

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 219

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But OpenShift provides comprehensive multi-tenancy features, advanced security and monitoring, integrated storage, and CI/CD pipeline management right out of the box. Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. The result? How OpenShift enhances Kubernetes.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. In summary, this model was a tightly-coupled application-to-data architecture, where machine learning algos were mixed with the backend and UI/UX software code stack.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

This comprehensive overview examines open source database architecture, types, pros and cons, uses by industry, and how open source databases compare with proprietary databases. In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. What is an open source database?

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding.

Traffic 126

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 126