The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date!

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Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. 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. These advantages come at an expense.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. What is hybrid cloud architecture?

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 187

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

IBM Power servers enable customers to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Additionally, Dynatrace integrates seamlessly with cloud-native technologies and services, such as Istio and Prometheus, further enhancing its monitoring capabilities.

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Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At Dynatrace we host most of our Dynatrace SaaS clusters for paying customers as well as trial users in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) Team at Dynatrace has an important role to play in that offering. Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%!

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 182

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. VA’s journey into the cloud.

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Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 182

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a cloud provider, and then your primary and standby regions to deploy to. What is ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud Plan? Here are the databases and cloud providers supported through each model: Supported Databases.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 76

DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Hardware - servers/storage hardware/software faults such as disk failure, disk full, other hardware failures, servers running out of allocated resources, server software behaving abnormally, intra DC network connectivity issues, etc. In today's world, cloud providers take care of the rest usually.

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Hardware DevOps Network Storage 243

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

You may already be using it daily and find it makes running applications in the cloud much more manageable. It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. It has become the industry standard for cloud-native container orchestration.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 98

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. Keynotes were focused on how Kubernetes and Cloud Native help businesses embrace the new AI era. We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 76

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 115

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. The importance of ITOps cannot be overstated, especially as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies.

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Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 208

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Enhanced customer confidence through excellent service availability. In modern cloud environments, every piece of hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. At the same time, compliance in a cloud world is a moving target.

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Cloud Infrastructure Strategy Hardware 227

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

For example, government agencies use an array of cloud platforms spanning 12 environments on average. Observability has become more critical in recent years as cloud-native environments have gotten more complex. Cloud-native environments don’t lend themselves well to this type of monitoring.

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Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 214

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Serverless computing is a cloud-based, on-demand execution model where customers consume resources solely based on their application usage.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. IT teams must ensure high availability, scalability, and security, all while ensuring that their PostgreSQL clusters perform optimally. Please refer to our documentation.

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Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 90

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. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 256

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 347

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

However, the pain and efforts associated can be reduced, if the cross-browser testing is cloud-based. Not to forget there are downsides associated with cloud-based cross-browser testing as well. Advantages of doing cross-browser testing on the cloud. A cloud-based solution saves infrastructure set up and maintenance cost.

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Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

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. Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. What Exactly is Greenplum? over Greenplum 5.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 193

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As e-commerce experiences become more sophisticated and we all rely on them more and more, observability for e-commerce applications and the clouds they run on has become more critical than ever to retailers’ success. More still, very little of that downtime was related to the SAP cloud platform. Dynatrace news.

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Retail Cloud Monitoring Hardware 243

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Cloud testing, in simple terms, means testing software applications using the resources provided by the cloud. Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. Cloud testing helps an organization gain competitiveness by reducing the cost of testing.

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Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Dynatrace news. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

People often ask me if developing for the cloud is any different from developing on-premises software. The biggest difference between developing for the cloud and developing on-premises software is that in the cloud, you have much better access to how your customers are using your services. It really is.

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Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 135

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 184

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 84

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If cloud-native technologies and containers are on your radar, you’ve likely encountered Docker and Kubernetes and might be wondering how they relate to each other. Docker Engine is built on top containerd , the leading open-source container runtime, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DNCF). Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage.

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