The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As an example, cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines demand a complex set of functionalities, including the generation and hosting of high quality proxy content. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does strong enterprise cloud security entail, and how can you achieve it? With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner, Dynatrace easily integrates with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the AWS Outposts Service Ready designation.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date!

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Explain cloud computing to me at a professional level? Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. Another key benefit of cloud computing is its reliability and availability. Which cloud provider would you recommend?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2023

Logs complement metrics and enable automation Cloud practitioners agree that observability, security, and automation go hand in hand. The increasing complexity of cloud service architectures requires a rock-solid understanding of the activity, health status, and security of cloud services.

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InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As cloud environments become increasingly complex, legacy solutions can’t keep up with modern demands. As a result, companies run into the cloud complexity wall – also known as the cloud observability wall – as they struggle to manage modern applications and gain multicloud observability with outdated tools.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Aurora's design preserves the core transactional consistency strengths of relational databases. It innovates at the storage layer to create a database built for the cloud that can support modern workloads without sacrificing performance.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Aurora's design preserves the core transactional consistency strengths of relational databases. It innovates at the storage layer to create a database built for the cloud that can support modern workloads without sacrificing performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 17, 2024

Growing AI adoption brings rising cloud costs There are three key reasons that AI costs can spiral out of control: AI consumes additional resources. Running artificial intelligence models and querying data requires massive amounts of computational resources in the cloud, which results in higher cloud costs. Use containerization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. What problem are we solving? Assemble and decrypt parts? —?Our

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. have altered the many assumptions that guided the design and optimization of the Snowflake system. From shared-nothing to disaggregation.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Fluent Bit is a telemetry agent designed to receive data (logs, traces, and metrics), process or modify it, and export it to a destination. Fluent Bit was designed to help you adjust your data and add the proper context, which can be helpful in the observability backend. Plan to avoid out-of-memory situations.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Dynatrace news. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. Reliability. Scalability.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Cloud deployments have grown rapidly in recent years, and enterprise hybrid and multicloud environments have become the new standard, resulting in new challenges such as: Keeping up with dynamic, autoscaling environments where instances, applications and microservices come and go fast. AWS Storage Gateway. Dynatrace news. AWS OpsWorks.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is an IT architecture that combines servers, storage, and networking functions into a unified, software-centric platform to streamline resource management. Hyperconverged vs. cloud: Consider the differences.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. Keynotes were focused on how Kubernetes and Cloud Native help businesses embrace the new AI era. We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses. This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. 3d render.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The rise of cloud-native microservice architectures further exacerbates this change. Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. All data is readily accessible without storage tiers, such as costly solid-state drives (SSDs).

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " Cloud providers count on this to ease provisioning and fault-tolerance.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In this AWS re:Invent 2023 guide, we explore the role of generative AI in the issues organizations face as they move to the cloud: IT automation, cloud migration and digital transformation, application security, and more. In general, generative AI can empower AWS users to further accelerate and optimize their cloud journeys.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Containerized microservices have made it easier for organizations to create and deploy applications across multiple cloud environments without worrying about functional conflicts or software incompatibilities. Therefore, they are built to be non-persistent by design. Containers need to spin up and down easily.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 12, 2021

Credit to Netflix Studio’s Product, Design, Content Hub Engineering teams along with all of the supporting partner and platform teams. We’ll also cover how our Studio Engineering efforts are helping Netflix productions to spend less time on media logistics by utilizing our cloud based services. Lights, Camera, Media!

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Hardware - servers/storage hardware/software faults such as disk failure, disk full, other hardware failures, servers running out of allocated resources, server software behaving abnormally, intra DC network connectivity issues, etc. In today's world, cloud providers take care of the rest usually. Again the approach here is the same.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). Grail is built for such analytics, not storage.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kubernetes was initially designed with a strong focus on stateless workloads, meaning these workloads do not need to store any persistent data. You quickly realize that it will take ages to fill up the overprovisioned database storage. Two days later, your database runs out of storage in the middle of the night. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage. A data lakehouse provides a cost-effective storage layer for both structured and unstructured data. Data management.

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Percona

MARCH 11, 2024

Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their Persistent Volumes and underlying storage within Kubernetes. There is no need to use clouds’ UI or APIs to do that anymore.

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