The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

The data platform is built on top of several distributed systems, and due to the inherent nature of these systems, it is inevitable that these workloads run into failures periodically. We have been working on an auto-diagnosis and remediation system called Pensive in the data platform to address these concerns.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 179

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 179

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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?? Once the AWS Storage Gatewayâ??s Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little.

Cloud 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. Many respondents acquired certifications.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. AWS serverless offerings. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity.

Serverless 283

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 283

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

While optimizing delivery is very important, I haven’t focused enough on how Dynatrace helps IT Service Operation teams answer key questions they are faced with every day in their demanding job to keep Service Levels of their systems, services and applications within the defined agreements (SLAs). Avodaq is not only a Dynatrace customer.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware. You never know a company (or person) until you see them on their worst day.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers. Site reliability engineers bridge the gap between operations and software developers. What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The software that powers todayâ??s Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Comments (). License Includedâ??

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. It just means that from Software Development perspective, servers are abstracted and outsourced to another entity, so you don't need to worry about it. Serverless systems are still in their infancy.

Serverless 64

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Total Cost of Ownership.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. 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 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

These examples underline that the purpose of software today is not solely to support business processes, but that software solutions have broadly become an essential element in multiple business areas. This is done through software and IT services that are delivered through software APIs. More than mere support.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

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

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%! The AWS team confirmed a known hardware issue affecting a certain amount of EC2 machines in that region.

Infrastructure 181

Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 181

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

Serverless 244

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

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., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In fact, according to a Gartner forecast , revenue for global container management software and services will reach $944 million in 2024 — up from $465.8 With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. million in 2020. Serverless container services.

Serverless 219

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 219

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 184

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 184

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).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. How did we get here?

Entertainment 306

Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

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 228

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 228

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. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Building software is not moving freight. It would make the job of building quality software even harder and slower and more expensive.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. billion in 2020 to $4.1

Analytics 211

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 211

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 253

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 253