The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. For example, a five-minute outage today is equivalent to a two-hour outage at the time of our last Mantis blog post.

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Percona

JULY 3, 2023

With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update to the base operating system we build our images on top of. we’re making PMM publicly available on a newer base operating system based on Enterprise Linux 9 (EL9), specifically Oracle Linux 9.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. Regional caching? —?Netflix

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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. The scenario Service considerations In this exercise, we wanted to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL v12.16 to PostgreSQL v15.4.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. strength: -46 strength: -46 strength: -45 strength: -45 [.]

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). You can.but if you're looking for an educational exercise, I'd recommend using BPF tools to find performance wins. Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode].

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C++ Education Java AWS 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance. APM’s many forms. Advanced cloud observability.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

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Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

HammerDB provides performance metrics that can be used to compare databases however many benchmarking tools are severely limited being available only on one operating system or supporting only one database.

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems. Today, data needs to be available at all times, serving its users—both humans and computer systems—across all time zones, continuously, in close to real time.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. Second, this exercise in model-building was … rather tedious? Instead of invoking the open-source scikit-learn or Keras calls to build models, your team now goes from Pandas data transforms straight to … the API calls for AWS AutoPilot or GCP Vertex AI.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The applications must be integrated to the surrounding business systems so ideas can be tested and validated in the real world in a controlled manner. but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Why did something break? Who did what and when?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. The system is more robust. Since then, we have added support for Redis clusters, enabling customers to run faster and more scalable workloads.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. All Things Distributed.

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