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.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. The following sections describe our journey in building these components.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021.

Metrics 178

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 178

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage.

Technology 210

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 210

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. Security teams can identify vulnerabilities and automate remediation. Learn more.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability was first reported to the Apache Foundation (an open-source project) on November 24 by security researcher Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, after an attack was documented on December 9 and affected servers of the game Minecraft. When was the vulnerability in the Log4j 2 library discovered?

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Internet Internet Games Java 260

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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2. Amazon Fargate.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

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. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 was released.

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Open Source Azure Servers Programming 83

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 80

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 80

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are still looking for old-fashioned ways, like storage-level snapshots (i.e., AWS EBS Snapshots). Restoration is done.

Database 68

Database Storage Open Source AWS 68

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. But legacy, custom software can often prevent systems from working together, ultimately hindering growth. The platform approach vs. the best-of-breed approach.

Innovation 196

Innovation Software Software Cloud 196

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.

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Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

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., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. To improve their alerting system, the team decided to move to SLO/SLI-based alerting, which require deeper knowledge of the application but are more helpful than generalized metric alerts.

AWS 212

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 212

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. On the other hand we have good old-fashioned native apps that you install on your operating system (a dying breed?

Cloud 83

Cloud Software Software Internet 83

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage. Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL.

Storage 96

Storage Open Source AWS Servers 96

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is even more cumbersome when working on bare metal, as it is more difficult to add space when using this kind of solution with respect to the cloud. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

AWS 96

AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 96

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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

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. Check zones where your PerstistentVolumes were created.

Storage 108

Storage Cloud Servers Google 108

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. To improve their alerting system, the team decided to move to SLO/SLI-based alerting, which require deeper knowledge of the application but are more helpful than generalized metric alerts.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

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.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

on the cloud for specific RDS features. uses the Aria engine for system tables. 2023-05-12T08:10:39.374389Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-011013] [Server] Failed to initialize DD Storage Engine. Note that MariaDB 10.4 is not the latest version and has had new releases since 10.4. The client requirement was to move to MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 8.0,

Open Source 67

Open Source Database Storage Engineering 67

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 78

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 78

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., I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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. OPA can be integrated with a wide range of tools and systems, making it highly versatile. Checkov: Checkov is a static code analysis tool.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

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.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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.

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Google Cloud Serverless Azure 221

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Cloud storage. We will get a prompt to use Nx Cloud.

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Cache Servers Code Storage 109

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130