Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v13 versions, 14.7

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed. By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.),

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The exponential growth of data volume—including observability, security, software lifecycle, and business data—forces organizations to deal with cost increases while providing flexible, robust, and scalable ingest. OpenPipeline high-performance filtering and preprocessing provides full ingest and storage control for the Dynatrace platform.

Analytics 187

Analytics Processing Transportation Storage 187

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? AWS Identity and Access Management brings together on-premises and cloud identity management. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

Development 239

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 239

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 ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Scalegrid

JUNE 7, 2024

In this article, we will explore what RabbitMQ is, its mechanisms to facilitate message queueing, its role within software architectures, and the tangible benefits it delivers in real-world scenarios. Queues designated as durable maintain their configuration and stored messages even after the broker restarts.

IoT 130

IoT Software Architecture Architecture Scalability 130

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. AWS aims to support the streamlining of observability.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 201

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage. A data lakehouse provides a cost-effective storage layer for both structured and unstructured data. Data management.

Artificial Intelligence 197

Artificial Intelligence Storage Analytics Government 197

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With Amazon Web Services, the main sources from which to ingest logs—Simple Storage Service, or S3, and CloudWatch —come with an additional cost. As of today’s announcement, AWS and Dynatrace strengthen their commitment to their customers to continue to deliver quality and value. Learn more about VPC Flow Logs.

Traffic 204

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 204

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. AWS aims to support the streamlining of observability.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We will share how its design has evolved over the years and the lessons learned while building it. To understand Axion’s design, we need to know the various components that interact with it. The motivation has not changed since then; the design has. Design evolution Axion fact store has four components?—?fact

Storage 187

Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct links to the software or service itself to download. was made available on January 23, 2023.

Open Source 82

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 82

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Many customers try to use traditional tools to monitor and observe modern software stacks, but they struggle to deal with the dynamic and changing nature of cloud environments.

Cloud 216

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 216

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. The infrastructure should allow them to exercise their freedom as data scientists but it should provide enough guardrails and scaffolding, so they don’t have to worry about software architecture too much. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Limit the cloud services a cloud provider can offer and you limit the quality of the software we can build. Building software is not moving freight. It would make the job of building quality software even harder and slower and more expensive. For example, AWS created Nitro. A cloud offers those services.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days. RAMA , a Brazilian financial services firm and AWS customer : â??The

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage. The final design The downloader starts the number of workers, which equals the concurrency (number of CPU cores by default). We aim to port it to Azure Blob and FileSystem storage types in subsequent releases.

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Speed Storage AWS Azure 79

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). To support the demands of our stakeholders we designed a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we call an asset generation recipe.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 75

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deploy applications quickly and efficiently is crucial for organizations. In traditional software development practices, compliance checks often occur late in the development lifecycle, closer to deployment.

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AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. For Physalia, and for AWS more generally, the guiding principle is minimise the blast radius.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

Virtualization 158

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 158

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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AWS Cloud Java Scalability 115

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. The design space. VLDB’19. Key findings. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163