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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank! which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Impact of Data locality on DB workloads.

n0derunner

In this video I migrate a Postgres DB running PGbench benchmark. As the DB continues to run on the new host – the Nutanix storage detects the access patterns and “localizes” the data that the DB is accessing. Many different queries are executing in parallel, some hitting RAM cache, some hitting storage.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO. GPU – Heavy graphic rendering and video editing. and the overall size will determine the amount of temporary storage available. Premium storage support.

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Lerner?—?using RL agents for test case scheduling

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Detect a regression in a test case.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Pointer Lock.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks.