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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Formulating ‘Out of Memory Kill’ Prediction on the Netflix App as a Machine Learning Problem

The Netflix TechBlog

We at Netflix, as a streaming service running on millions of devices, have a tremendous amount of data about device capabilities/characteristics and runtime data in our big data platform. With large data, comes the opportunity to leverage the data for predictive and classification based analysis.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

These include options where replay traffic generation is orchestrated on the device, on the server, and via a dedicated service. Moreover, allowing the device to execute untested server-side code paths can inadvertently expose an attack surface area for potential misuse. We will examine these alternatives in the upcoming sections.

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Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices

The Morning Paper

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., By instrumenting both the client-side of a request and the server-side it’s possible to figure out wait times. Seer is also tested on a 100-server GCE cluster with the Social Network microservices application.

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Helios: hyperscale indexing for the cloud & edge – part 1

The Morning Paper

Helios also serves as a reference architecture for how Microsoft envisions its next generation of distributed big-data processing systems being built. What follows is a discussion of where big data systems might be heading, heavily inspired by the remarks in this paper, but with several of my own thoughts mixed in.

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