The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Logs: A log file tells you about an event that has already happened; it is a record of events from software and operating systems. As they are automatically generated by the system, Log files can contain mountains of info, but are only as informative or valuable as the ability to process and understand the data they contain.

Monitoring 219

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 219

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place.

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., Stay tuned! buffer copies for filesystem access) with a single thread. On a VE20B (8 cores, 1.6

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Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Edge caching.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Considerations for setting the architectural foundations for a fast data platform. Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Back in the days of Web 1.0, At least once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Logs: A log file tells you about an event that has already happened; it is a record of events from software and operating systems. As they are automatically generated by the system, Log files can contain mountains of info, but are only as informative or valuable as the ability to process and understand the data they contain.

Monitoring 100

Monitoring Cloud Metrics Code 100

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this benchmark the difference between looking at workload from a SQL commands standpoint vs a row operation standpoint yields the same results, but it is not going to always be the case. Let’s now look at the operating system level. This workload is write intensive by this measure. Not all writes are equal either.

Benchmarking 46

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 46

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic. Stay tuned for more announcements. The log module is not yet available for Z/Linux.

Availability 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Stay tuned for more announcements on this topic. Stay tuned for more announcements.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2019

This can be quite a challenge in today’s microservices architectures where containers are ephemeral. Auto-discovery of process and operating system logs. Stay tuned for details. Let’s assume confidential data was logged due to a bug. For details, see How to enable Log Monitoring. Continuously improved usability.

Monitoring 30

Monitoring Metrics Tuning Operating System 30

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Creativity was an essential part of the company’s culture which was evident from the architecture of its factories and offices to its advertising and graphic design used to promote its products. CSS transforms are ideal tools for fine-tuning the size and position of elements within grids’ constraints. .” — Renato Zveteremich.

Design 95

Design Media C++ Energy 95

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many of these systems support I/O ordering with a stable media cache and subsequently combine and/or split I/O requests across available subsystem resources to complete the storing to physical media. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40