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Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency

Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 17, 2018

To accomplish this, Uber relies heavily on making data-driven decisions at every level, from forecasting rider demand during high traffic events to identifying and addressing bottlenecks … The post Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Big Data

Big Data Latency Transportation Traffic

Faster time to value with enhanced handling of OneAgent runtime data

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This blog post highlights a group of improvements that were released with OneAgent version 1.199. Recent improvements in OneAgent runtime-data handling. Storage mount points in a system might be larger or smaller, local or remote, with high or low latency, and various speeds. Customizable location of large runtime files.

Storage

Storage Latency Operating System Network

Dynatrace Managed turnkey Premium High Availability for globally distributed data centers (Early Adopter)

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. With Dynatrace actively managing business-critical applications, some of our globally distributed enterprise customers require Dynatrace Managed to continue operating even when an entire data center goes down. Minimized cross-data center network traffic.

Availability

Availability Hardware Latency Traffic

Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Atlas is an in-memory time-series database that ingests multiple billions of time-series per day and retains the last two weeks of data. To serve the increasing number of push down queries, the in-memory storage layer would need to scale up as well, and it became clear that this would push the already expensive storage costs far higher.

Storage

Storage Cache Metrics Database

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

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. It can happen on an edge API system servicing customer devices, between the edge and mid-tier services, or from mid-tiers to data stores.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking. Collect data automatically and pre-processed from a range of sources: application programming interfaces, integrations, agents, and OpenTelemetry.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Efficiency Technology

Compression Methods in MongoDB: Snappy vs. Zstd

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

Storage

Storage Network Open Source Latency

Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Since database hosting is more dependent on memory (RAM) than storage, we are going to compare various instance sizes ranging from just 1GB of RAM up to 64GB of RAM so you can see how costs vary across different application workloads. Does it affect latency? Yes, you can see an increase in latency. EC2 instances. VM instances.

Azure

Azure AWS Database Latency

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source

Using Docker To Deploy Neon Serverless PostgreSQL

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

There is a section in our Documentation ( Introduction to Serverless PostgreSQL ) and a short overview of the primary components: Page Server The storage server with the primary goal of storing all data pages and WAL records Safe Keeper A component to store WAL records in memory (to reduce latency). 5454 --listen-http=0.0.0.0:7676

Serverless

Serverless C++ Storage Latency

Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads.

AWS

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic

How To Scale a Single-Host PostgreSQL Database With Citus

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When it comes to Citus, successfully building out and scaling a PostgreSQL cluster across multiple nodes and even across data centers can feel, at times, to be an art form because there are so many ways of building it out. The following invocation generates almost 4GB of data.

Database

Database Benchmarking Latency C++

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll demonstrate how Dynatrace automation and the Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian can help you implement your applications according to all six AWS Well-Architected pillars by integrating them into your software development lifecycle (SDLC).

AWS

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud

The AWS Storage Gateway - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secureÂ and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

Storage

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud

Optimizing data warehouse storage

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. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance

Performance Latency Hardware Storage

MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

Best Practices

Best Practices Design Tuning Database

InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage

Scale up your Dynatrace Managed software-intelligence deployment with self-healing insights

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Dynatrace Managed operates as a SaaS solution that keeps your data and data analysis on-premise in your own data center, thereby fulfilling the highest privacy and regulatory needs. Access your cluster health data in Dynatrace Managed. An illustration of the cluster overview dashboard is shown below.

Software

Software Software Programming Metrics

Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps

Cache-Control for Civilians

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

A great candidate for must-revalidate is a blog like mine: static pages that seldom change. If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency. Clear-Site-Data.

Cache

Cache Latency Strategy Servers

Get up to 300 new metrics out of the box with AWS supporting services (GA)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Dynatrace news. Amazon Redshift.

AWS

AWS Metrics IoT Storage

Get up to 300 new metrics out of the box with AWS supporting services (GA)

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Dynatrace news. Amazon Redshift.

AWS

AWS Metrics IoT Storage

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files. The point we’re making here is they are critical for MySQL Performance.

Performance

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

Digital experience monitoring enables companies to respond to issues more efficiently in real time, and, through enrichment with the right business data, understand how end-user experience of their digital products significantly affects business key performance indicators (KPIs). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics

Optimize Citrix platform performance and user experience with a new extension (Preview)

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Citrix platform performance—optimize your Citrix landscape with insights into user load and screen latency per server.

Latency

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure

Hudi: Uber Engineering’s Incremental Processing Framework on Apache Hadoop

Uber Engineering

MARCH 12, 2017

With the evolution of storage formats like Apache Parquet and Apache ORC and query engines like Presto and Apache Impala , the Hadoop ecosystem has the potential to become a general-purpose, unified serving layer for workloads that can tolerate latencies … The post Hudi: Uber Engineering’s Incremental Processing Framework on Apache Hadoop appeared (..)

Processing

Processing Latency Storage Engineering

Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

In this blog, we will answer all of these important questions and provide a general overview comparing the two database services, Aurora vs RDS. It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best.

AWS

AWS Database Serverless Storage

An Enterprise-Grade MongoDB Alternative Without Licensing or Lock-in

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we’ll examine the reasons why people would seek an alternative to MongoDB Enterprise, and we’ll identify some of the most popular NoSQL alternatives. First, some stage-setting for this blog article. Redis Known for exceptional performance, Redis is a popular in-memory data platform.

Open Source

Open Source Database Scalability Software

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance

Performance Latency Hardware Storage

Desktop Application Testing vs Web Application Testing

Testsigma

JULY 23, 2020

This is a standalone software program which doesn’t depend on any internet connectivity for its working and its performance is not impacted because of any network related latencies. Any network-related latencies result in performance hindrances in these types of applications. Check out how Testsigma performs automated web application.

Testing

Testing Internet Internet Latency

The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

Tuning

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking

MongoDB Database Backup: Best Practices & Expert Tips

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. In today’s data-driven world, losing critical data can be catastrophic for any organization. As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure.

Best Practices

Best Practices Database Storage Servers

Data ingestion pipeline with Operation Management

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

These media focused machine learning algorithms as well as other teams generate a lot of data from the media files, which we described in our previous blog , are stored as annotations in Marken. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. We refer the reader to our previous blog article for details.

Media

Media Latency Architecture Database

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea. blog comments powered by Disqus.

AWS

AWS Cloud Games Latency

Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America. The new Sao Paulo Region provides better latency to South America, which enables AWS customers to deliver higher performance services to their South American end-users.

AWS

AWS Latency Storage Big Data

Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Read more about on their blog.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Storage Database

Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Network latency. Network Latency. With the evolution of cloud technologies, such as Single Page Applications (SPAs), Web APIs, and Model View Controller (MVC), network latency has become a crucial factor to be monitored.

Monitoring

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency

The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Each of these categories opens up challenging problems in AI/visual algorithms, high-density computing, bandwidth/latency, distributed systems. Analyzing visual data is predominantly accomplished using deep learning. In a traditional visual analytics pipeline, we compress the data by exploiting the redundancies in time and space.

Wireless

Wireless IoT Analytics Architecture

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Further computationally intensive, highly parallel workloads have found their way to Amazon EC2 as businesses have explored using HPC types of algorithms for other application categories, for example to to process very large unstructured data sets for Business Intelligence applications. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

Cloud

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency

Software Testing Trends 2021 – What can we expect?

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

When more companies transition into digital-first projects, there must be an expanded number of processes and IT data departments to keep IT teams on track. of companies invest over US$ 50 million in initiatives such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data in 2020, up from 39.7% appeared first on Testsigma Blog.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

AWS

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data

Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency

Faster time to value with enhanced handling of OneAgent runtime data

Trending Sources

Dynatrace Managed turnkey Premium High Availability for globally distributed data centers (Early Adopter)

Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

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

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Compression Methods in MongoDB: Snappy vs. Zstd

Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

Using Docker To Deploy Neon Serverless PostgreSQL

Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes

How To Scale a Single-Host PostgreSQL Database With Citus

Implementing AWS well-architected pillars with automated workflows

The AWS Storage Gateway - All Things Distributed

Optimizing data warehouse storage

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Scale up your Dynatrace Managed software-intelligence deployment with self-healing insights

Observability platform vs. observability tools

Cache-Control for Civilians

Get up to 300 new metrics out of the box with AWS supporting services (GA)

Get up to 300 new metrics out of the box with AWS supporting services (GA)

MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Optimize Citrix platform performance and user experience with a new extension (Preview)

Hudi: Uber Engineering’s Incremental Processing Framework on Apache Hadoop

Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

An Enterprise-Grade MongoDB Alternative Without Licensing or Lock-in

USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Desktop Application Testing vs Web Application Testing

The Most Important MySQL Setting

MongoDB Database Backup: Best Practices & Expert Tips

Data ingestion pipeline with Operation Management

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

Software Testing Trends 2021 – What can we expect?

Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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