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). Security Events Platform See open source project such as StreamAlert and Siddhi to get some general ideas.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

The statements include ALTER TABLE, ANALYZE TABLE, CACHE INDEX, CHECK TABLE, CREATE INDEX, CREATE TABLE, DROP INDEX, LOAD INDEX, OPTIMIZE TABLE, REPAIR TABLE, TRUNCATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, and any open cursors. Seems like a lot of work to do while servers are failing, but it should save the data in a better state.

Servers 82

Servers Open Source Tuning Cache 82

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. opensnoop Files opened table. biosnoop Disk I/O per-event details table, offset heat map. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. If you want to run these tools 24x7, study overheads to understand the cost first.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

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. Browsers now understand the classic shared HTTP cache behaviour as a privacy bug.

Cache 82

Cache Government Traffic Network 82

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. REDIS for caching. Dynatrace news. For EKS – Amazon’s Kubernetes Service – you can get a preview of CloudWatch Container Insights.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We can use 11ty’s new Serverless mode to build them on request using Netlify’s On-Demand Builders to cache each Madlib. Sanity pairs a real-time data store with three open-source tools: a powerful query language (GROQ), a CMS (Sanity Studio), and a rich-text data specification (Portable Text). Large preview ). Portable Text.

Serverless 77

Serverless Cache Open Source Code 77

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. software Kernel software-based events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Tech News Gather

JULY 18, 2023

Not just among developers but also clients, Laravel has immense popularity because it simplifies complex tasks like authenticating, routing, caching, and testing content. Thanks to its modular architecture and caching system that offer queued service. The community organizes events like Laracon and Laravel Live.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Social Media Development Artificial Intelligence 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In particular, he talked about the misattribution potential in a complex microservice architecture where often intermediary results are cached. For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers.

Infrastructure 126

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 126

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. Their attributes are used to scope permissions to varying degrees.

Cache 249

Cache Google Open Source Systems 249

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Gael Metais suggested to more aggressively subset web fonts and look into caching issues with our AVIF files. If a browser doesn’t support AVIF, it gets a JPEG file (properly cached), The content negotiation happens via <picture> + srcset in the browser. The next day we subset the fonts and pushed them live.

Mobile 140

Mobile Design Cache Code 140

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In particular, he talked about the misattribution potential in a complex microservice architecture where often intermediary results are cached. For example, a ranking team would ingest live user traffic and subject it to a number of ranking configurations and simulate the event outcomes using predictive models running on canary rankers.

Infrastructure 100

Infrastructure Metrics Architecture Efficiency 100

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When dealing with e-commerce at some point, you probably have heard, and perhaps used Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. Due to the use of modern frameworks, advanced caching and rendering, and data transmission via API, properly developed PWAs can be a seven-league step up to boost the store’s speed. Alex Husar.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

If you're using an open source monitoring platform, first check if it already has a BPF agent. Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. opensnoop Files opened table 3. biosnoop Disk I/O per-event details table, offset heat map 6. but do have a json output mode.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive is a free, open-source collaborations featuring input from over 80 contributors. TTFB is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. It is one of the most complete “state of the web” reports currently available.

Performance 52

Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

The Symphonia

JANUARY 21, 2019

Back in the Dim And Distant Past of 2003 I even co-led an open source project that brought some at-the-time interesting innovations to this area. There are open source and other 3rd party projects available that layer different UIs on top of these tools, e.g. this one from Stelligent. You don’t give it scripts to run?—?you

AWS 40

AWS Open Source Lambda Serverless 40

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. Redis Strings Use Cases.

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft.

Serverless 40

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Although you can use something basic like Google Analytics with custom events, I recommend you to use tools tailor-made for this. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Check Calibre , SpeedCurve or SiteSpeed.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. These events, known as trigger events, can include actions like inserting, updating, or deleting records in database tables.

Cache 60

Cache Database Games Healthcare 60

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

As the TPC makes its specifications available for free, the need was seen for an open source benchmarking application that could leverage the standards written by the TPC yet implemented quickly, easily and at low cost by anyone. HammerDB is open source software licensed under the. How to build HammerDB from source.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 12, 2019

The Tech Hollow , an OSS technology we released a few years ago, has been best described as a total high-density near cache : Total : The entire dataset is cached on each node?—?there there is no eviction policy, and there are no cache misses. Near : the cache exists in RAM on any instance which requires access to the dataset.

Cache 183

Cache Architecture Latency Engineering 183

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to content websites, Wix also supports e-commerce, blogs, forums, bookings and events, and membership and authentication. There are various performance budgeting products and open-source tools available, but we decided to create our own custom budgeting service called Perfer. Large preview ).

Website 126

Website Performance Google Media 126

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? Although you can use something basic like Google Analytics with custom events, I recommend you to use tools tailor-made for this. What happens when a browser tries to load a website? Check Calibre , SpeedCurve or SiteSpeed.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

For Performance Monitoring Many of you reading this may already be familiar with Next.js, but it is a popular open-source JavaScript framework that allows us to monitor our website’s performance in real-time. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it. In the event of a specific Point of Presence (PoP) failing, businesses need an immediate fallback.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Figure 1 – Individual Host pages show performance metrics, problem history, event history, and related processes for each host. Missing caching layers. The Dynatrace Application Security module automatically detects, assesses, and remediates open-source and third-party vulnerabilities for Java workloads.

Azure 188

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 188

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

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. Also, we will take a look at our open-source backup utility custom-built to help avoid costs and proprietary software – Percona Backup for MongoDB or PBM. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. Our retail customers have shared similar challenges about managing workload surges and declines driven by big sale events. While open source Redis comes with primitives to help reshard a cluster, they are inadequate. Atomic slot migration.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Pointer Events. An extension to Service Workers that enables browsers to present users with cached content when offline. Second, browser projects having different priorities at the leading edge is natural and healthy.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a production system within Microsoft capturing around a quadrillion events and indexing 16 trillion search keys per day it would be interesting in its own right, but there’s a lot more to it than that. On the surface this is a paper about fast data ingestion from high-volume streams, with indexing to support efficient querying.

Cloud 104

Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104