The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable.

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

A service-level objective ( SLO ) is the new contract between business, DevOps, and site reliability engineers (SREs). In their new dashboard, they added dimensions for load, latency, and open problems for each component. The “Four Golden Signals” include the following: Latency. SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary.

Automotive 272

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 272

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

Best Practices 90

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 90

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. A new record entering a database table. Tasks like API requests, database calls, and file system management are perfect candidates for this service.

Lambda 181

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

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

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 84

Cache Latency Traffic Database 84

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. ChatGPT: The innodb_redo_log_capacity parameter specifies the maximum size of the InnoDB redo log buffer, which is used to store changes made to the database before they are written to disk. What could it be?

Social Media 124

Social Media Database Servers Cache 124

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance.

Azure 148

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 148

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Here's some fancy FCC reverse engineering magic. Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space , Murat ). It's HighScalability time: Curious how SpaceX's satellite constellation works? Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it.

Internet 174

Internet Internet Scalability Analytics 174

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

This can dramatically decrease network latency and its effect on the end-user experience. Migrate databases intelligently. All applications require access to databases, so databases and the services that depend on them should be migrated in tandem. Migrate by function rather than by resource.

Cloud 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2008, AWS opened a point of presence (PoP) in Hong Kong to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Since then, AWS has added two more PoPs in Hong Kong, the latest in 2016.

AWS 149

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

In the back to basics readings this week I am re-reading a paper from 1995 about the work that I did together with Thorsten on solving the problem of end-to-end low-latency communication on high-speed networks. The lack of low-latency made that distributed systems (e.g.

Network 99

Network Latency Operating System Speed 99

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the world of a site reliability engineer (SRE) , failure is not only an option, but also expected. In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. Read : Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools. Service Catalog.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). High Performance I/O.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Storage Database 118

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. Databases Most Commonly Used with ScyllaDB. different database types.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Amazon RDS offers a monthly uptime percentage SLA of 99.95% per Multi-AZ database instance. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

Cloud 147

Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

An SSR application will generally have templating engines that inject the variables into an HTML when given to the client. Server caches help lower the latency between a Frontend and Backend; since key-value databases are faster than traditional relational SQL databases, it will significantly increase an API’s response time.

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database. If the data is common between multiple services, the database layer gets extricated out of microservices in favor of the creation of a common shared data layer. Problem solved, right?

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database. If the data is common between multiple services, the database layer gets extricated out of microservices in favor of the creation of a common shared data layer. Problem solved, right?

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. Once the schema was built I shutdown and restarted the database and configured a test script as follows: HammerDB-3.1$

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Over the past few years, two important trends that have been disrupting the database industry are mobile applications and big data. The explosive growth in mobile devices and mobile apps is generating a huge amount of data, which has fueled the demand for big data services and for high scale databases.

Big Data 100

Big Data Mobile Latency Database 100

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Growth Engineering team is responsible for executing growth initiatives that help us anticipate and adapt to this change. For more background on Growth Engineering and the signup funnel, please have a look at our previous blog post that covers the basics. We need to be constantly adapting and innovating as a result of this change.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. Monitoring tools should also be considered when setting up your Redis® database.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

As vendors and CSPs are faced with building these virtualized systems, it’s imperative to look at the software engineering methodologies that the IT industry has successfully applied to challenges at comparable scale. Microservices architecture has emerged over the last few years as a way to address these large scale engineering challenges.

Latency 40

Latency Virtualization Cloud Software Engineering 40

VoltDB

DECEMBER 8, 2017

As vendors and CSPs are faced with building these virtualized systems, it’s imperative to look at the software engineering methodologies that the IT industry has successfully applied to challenges at comparable scale. Microservices architecture has emerged over the last few years as a way to address these large scale engineering challenges.

Latency 40

Latency Virtualization Cloud Software Engineering 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines. Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). This comes in the form of micropayments.

Blockchain 94

Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Fault-tolerance.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

They must deal with the increased latency and unreliability inherent in remote communication. Today, to accomplish this, developers are forced to write complicated infrastructure that typically involves message queues and databases along with complex logic to synchronize them.

Cloud 130

Cloud AWS Java Scalability 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

As Redis stores data, it supports extensive data key and string lengths, up to 512 MB, while offering complex data structures like: lists sets sorted sets hashes bitmaps These features make Redis much more than a basic caching engine; it is a versatile tool capable of supporting diverse data models. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database. Microsoft Azure offers multiple ways to manage Apache Cassandra databases. It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions.

Azure 238

Azure Latency Metrics Infrastructure 238

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

From an engineering perspective this may be all that you need to know. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

In particular this has been true for applications based on algorithms - often MPI-based - that depend on frequent low-latency communication and/or require significant cross sectional bandwidth. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106