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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. The batch job creates a high-level summary that captures some key comparison metrics.

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Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

Compare Latency. lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. Now, let’s take a look at the throughput and latency performance of our comparison. Next, we are going to test and compare the latency performance between ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Latency Averages (ms).

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

Compare Latency. On average, ScaleGrid achieves almost 30% lower latency over DigitalOcean for the same deployment configurations. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark: Comparison Overview. Read-Intensive Latency Benchmark. Compare Pricing.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

Scalegrid

While there is plenty of well-documented benefits to using a connection pooler, there are some arguments to be made against using one: Introducing a middleware in the communication inevitably introduces some latency. A middleware becomes a single point of failure. Should You Use a PostgreSQL Connection Pooler?

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency. Figure 3: Video Processing with Index and Virtual Assembly Using virtual assembly greatly improves the latency performance of the ProRes 422 HQ proxy generation by removing one round trip of cloud downloading and cloud uploading by the physical assembler.

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