The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. Watch our Chaos Engineering talk from AWS Reinvent to learn more about Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With 2021 set to be a new high for the number of data breaches , it was plainly evident that we needed to evolve how we approach our cloud infrastructure security strategy. We collect findings from a number of sources, which includes AWS Security Hub, AWS Config Rules, and our own in-house custom detections.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Native tools, such as CloudWatch from AWS, have more extensive integrations and provide comprehensive protection for data in the cloud compared to their third-party counterparts.

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Dynatrace

JULY 23, 2020

Cloud platform metrics (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, etc.). Filter by metric dimensions and then choose Auto-adaptive baseline as your monitoring strategy: Both monitoring strategies (static and adaptive baselines) offer a convenient alert preview that allows you to review the potential number of alerts when using the given settings.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Building a successful UberEats clone requires a well-planned strategy that takes into account various aspects, including market research, feature prioritization, intuitive design, robust development, and targeted marketing campaigns. Stay tuned to learn how to lay the foundation for a successful clone app that converts readers into leads.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. In pursuit of this goal, we outlined following storage optimization strategies: Use cheaper Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes instead of SSD instance stores in EC2.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2019

Besides all the metrics that originate from your hosts, Dynatrace also collects all the important key performance metrics for services and real-user monitored applications , as well as cloud platform metrics from AWS , Azure , Kubernetes , and Cloud Foundry. I’ll share more details about our work in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed. Also, respond to ad-hoc requests created manually by end-users.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. Portability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. However, this strategy does not work for all databases. Stay Tuned DBLog has additional capabilities which are not covered by this blog post, such as: Ability to capture table schemas without using locks.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There are services at Netflix that use RDBMS kind of databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL via AWS RDS. However, this strategy does not work for all databases. Stay Tuned DBLog has additional capabilities which are not covered by this blog post, such as: Ability to capture table schemas without using locks.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. AWS for builds. What is your storage strategy? We did this as AWS was cost-prohibitive. What is your object and content caching strategy? Ubuntu for server teams.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

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