The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Open Connect Open Connect is Netflix’s content delivery network (CDN). video streaming) takes place in the Open Connect network. The network devices that underlie a large portion of the CDN are mostly managed by Python applications. If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon. are you logged in?

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

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

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 88

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 88

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. This is an area where cloud providers already bear much of the burden, and will continue to bear it in the future.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

Availability 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Disk measurements with per-disk resolution.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Sometimes, you need to check the availability of internal resources that aren’t accessible from outside your network. A private Synthetic location is a location in your private network infrastructure where you install a Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate. New public Synthetic locations from already supported cloud vendors.

Hardware 21

Hardware Monitoring Tuning Network 21

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. To run our applications, we require computing system resources like CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth to be allocated to the critical data services that power the applications. At least once? At most once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Both have an excellent customer base, are fully Cloud native solutions and root on a long-standing history. Its powerful OneAgent injects all services automatically, captures the service flow and all interactions from the end user, network, and middleware through backend tiers and provides insights to actual bottlenecks.

AWS 40

AWS Tuning Monitoring Servers 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. The cloud-based service sends massive numbers of requests per second to simulate how your website holds up. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Migration to cloud. Cloud Platform.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52