The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

Today’s digital businesses run on heterogeneous and highly dynamic architectures with interconnected applications and microservices deployed via Kubernetes and other cloud-native platforms. All this data is then consumed by Dynatrace Davis® AI for more precise answers, thereby driving AIOps for cloud-native environments. Next steps.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Increasingly, organizations are turning to modern observability platforms to address the complexity of, and gain visibility into, cloud environments. Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. What is a data lakehouse?

Efficiency 278

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 278

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Unfortunately, their market prediction wasn’t correct; the cloud became more successful than IOT. New processors: Introducing new processors, including Metric Selector and Content Modifier, for selective data processing and metadata adjustment, improving data relevance and storage efficiency. What’s new in Fluent Bit 3.0

Best Practices 130

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage 130

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run.

AWS 215

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 215

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. Dynatrace fully embraces OpenTelemetry. years ago.

Open Source 152

Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer.

Strategy 182

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 182

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. Because of its matrix of cloud services across multiple environments, AWS and other multicloud environments can be more difficult to manage and monitor compared with traditional on-premises infrastructure. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 214

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 214

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An open platform can address some of the challenges organizations have experienced as they move to the cloud to become more resilient and agile in the face of disruption. Conversely, an open platform can promote interoperability and innovation. As organizations continue to operate in the cloud, open technologies become critical.

Innovation 199

Innovation Software Software Cloud 199

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project.

Open Source 83

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 83

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

on the cloud for specific RDS features. uses the Aria engine for system tables. Since Aria is a MariaDB-only engine, a direct MariaDB 10.4 > MySQL 8 ‘in-place’ upgrade is impossible for and after 10.4. 2023-05-12T08:10:39.374389Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-011013] [Server] Failed to initialize DD Storage Engine.

Open Source 69

Open Source Database Storage Engineering 69

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Many MongoDB clusters use storage-level snapshots to provide fast and reliable backups. Background story I recently worked with a company running a large four-shard MongoDB Enterprise Server database cluster on VMs on premises that decided to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. I will show you why and how we did it.

Storage 110

Storage Cloud Servers Google 110

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”. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. MaaSS for Cloud Architects: Deployment and Architecture Validations. Full-stack observability.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., On the one-hand we have ‘cloud apps’ which make it easy to access our work from multiple devices and to collaborate online with others (e.g. The primary issue with cloud apps (the SaaS model) is ownership of the data. I’m all in :).

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. Ian Cutress, “Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Ford 20] A. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 79

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 79

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes has become the leading container orchestration platform for organizations adopting open source solutions to manage, scale, and automate application deployment. This complexity has surfaced seven top Kubernetes challenges that strain engineering teams and ultimately slow the pace of innovation. What is Kubernetes?

Open Source 195

Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation 195

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. Ian Cutress, “Insights into DDR5 Sub-timings and Latencies,” [link] , Oct 2020 [Ford 20] A. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

" Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine. For instance, terraform-compliance can enforce that all AWS EC2 instances have specific tags defined or that all Google Cloud resources have encryption enabled.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

Google 224

Google Cloud Serverless Azure 224

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.

Cloud 124

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 124

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Honorable Mention: Is Serverless Just a New Word for Cloud-Based? Interested?

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41