The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. of PostgreSQL cloud use compared to 55.0%

Strategy 182

Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28 and later v8 versions PostgreSQL: 13.10

AWS 96

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 96

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. They also ensure that backup strategies adhere to industry and legal compliance requirements.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

To determine whether that perception is warranted in the database software industry — and if so, how to avoid vendor lock-in pitfalls — let’s dig deeper. Vendor lock-in related to database software also conjures up perceptions of financial losses brought on by escalating licensing fees. Ask about data portability.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Innovation Cloud 89

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? 2019 Top Databases Used. Commercial Databases.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Triggering repairs at any time.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Triggering repairs at any time.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a fascinating read, shedding light on leveraging AWS snapshots’ capabilities to avoid initial data copy within the RDS environment. Inspired by David’s insights, I embarked on a journey to explore logical replication from a different perspective – within the realm of on-premises server databases.

Database 76

Database Traffic C++ Servers 76

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. The bigger the database, the bigger the damage from a leak. This can leave your database instances exposed and vulnerable.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The biggest challenge was aligning on this strategy across the organization. For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database. Using event sourcing allows us to implement new developer experience features such as the Schema History view.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. APM’s many forms.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Starting with the purpose for the system, we can walk through all the steps that provide value to its users, see what might go wrong with each step, come up with an observability and mitigation strategy, and find ways to run chaos experiments to validate our design controls. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Starting with the purpose for the system, we can walk through all the steps that provide value to its users, see what might go wrong with each step, come up with an observability and mitigation strategy, and find ways to run chaos experiments to validate our design controls. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. Its strategies for flow control are either stop-and-wait (i.e., HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e., The need for flow control.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Different frameworks will have different effects on performance and will require different strategies of optimization, so you have to clearly understand all of the nuts and bolts of the framework you’ll be relying on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Different frameworks will have different effects on performance and will require different strategies of optimization, so you have to clearly understand all of the nuts and bolts of the framework you’ll be relying on.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104