Scalegrid

AUGUST 16, 2021

Data-driven applications span a wide breadth of complexity, from simple microservices to real-time event-driven systems under significant load. However, as any development and/or DevOps team tasked with performance improvements will attest, making data-driven apps fast globally is “non-trivial”.

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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. Similarly, client teams don’t have to worry about when or how the data is written. in a video file.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Browsers will cache tools popular among vocal, leading-edge developers. There's plenty of space for caching most popular frameworks. The best available proxy data also suggests that shared caches would have a minimal positive effect on performance. Suppose a user has only downloaded part of the cache.

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Data Structures in Redis.

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KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In October 2015 KeyCDN released a free WordPress caching plugin called Cache Enabler. We did this because we wanted to give back to the WordPress community in the offering of a caching solution that was not complicated and most importantly, free. Over the last few months there have been many changes made to Cache Enabler.

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Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

1 But inevitably, starting a new project involves lots of meetings with business stakeholders to hash out initial requirements and canonical data models. Is this the best way to build a system, though? So we’re now combining data and behavior together…this is essentially an aggregate which means now we’re doing domain-driven design! ?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability. It also shows how data observability relates to business outcomes as organizations embrace generative AI. GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We also see much higher L1 cache activity combined with 4x higher count of MACHINE_CLEARS. a usage pattern occurring when 2 cores reading from / writing to unrelated variables that happen to share the same L1 cache line. Cache line is a concept similar to memory page?—?a Thread 0’s cache in this example.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

By Chris Wolfe , Joey Schorr , and Victor Roldán Betancort Introduction The authorization team at Netflix recently sponsored work to add Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) support to AuthZed’s open source Google Zanzibar inspired authorization system, SpiceDB. This is a Caveated SpiceDB relationship.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! In other words, false positives are bad but false negatives are the absolute worst!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The GraphQL shim enabled client engineers to move quickly onto GraphQL, figure out client-side concerns like cache normalization, experiment with different GraphQL clients, and investigate client performance without being blocked by server-side migrations. In such cases, we were not testing for response data but overall behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Growing awareness and increasing regulatory scrutiny have propelled carbon emissions data into the public consciousness. Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Level 1: Data centers This is the starting point for most organizations. A PUE of 1.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Requirements In a previous blog post, we discussed Delta , a data enrichment and synchronization platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. Requirements In a previous blog post, we discussed Delta , a data enrichment and synchronization platform.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). In the Reliability space, our data teams focus on two main approaches. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. is 220 Mbps.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. To monitor Redis® instances effectively, collect Redis metrics focusing on cache hit ratio, memory allocated, and latency threshold.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. System Components. Data Models.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2022

One of these solutions is Micrometer which provides 17+ pre-instrumented JVM-based frameworks for data collection and enables instrumentation code with a vendor-neutral API. That’s a large amount of data to handle. This creates a lot of complexity given different data sources, components, and tools. Here’s how it works.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service for customers to optimize the latency, performance and cost of their read workloads. As the amount of data stored increases constantly, the amount of memory needed also goes up. For features that need data structures like sorted sets (e.g.,

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

Gatekeeper is the system at Netflix responsible for evaluating the “liveness” of videos and assets on the site. Gatekeeper accomplishes its prescribed task by aggregating data from multiple upstream systems, applying some business logic, then producing an output detailing the status of each video in each country.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 13, 2023

User demographics , such as app version, operating system, location, and device type, can help tailor an app to better meet users’ needs and preferences. Here are some ways observability data is important to mobile app performance monitoring. In-app purchases can help to measure the overall effectiveness of your business strategy.

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Particular Software

MAY 8, 2023

However, in a message-based system, we no longer have a single call stack. The problem Because message-driven systems are asynchronous and run in multiple processes, debugging is naturally more complex than in a single-process application. Luckily, we can address these concerns with observability. ? Place order| B[Sales] B --> |2.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., The problem is all inside your app, she said to me / The answer is easy if you take it logically / I’d like to help data in its struggle to be free / There must be fifty ways to leak their data.

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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. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. This avoids thrashing caches too much for B and evens out the pressure on the L3 caches of the machine.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Anyone who’s concerned with developing, delivering, and operating software knows the importance of making software and the systems it runs on observable. OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Because they had too many data processing systems! ;). VLDB’19. are divided.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Last time out we looked at some of the trade-offs between RInKs and LInKs , and the advantages of local in-memory data structures. For many data center applications this looks to me like it could be a compelling future choice. HotOS’19.

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