The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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

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. in the directory storage/innobase/ut the following section has UT_RELAX_CPU defined to call the PAUSE instruction on x86.

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

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. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure. Why would this be the case?

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version. At every step, relevant stakeholders are informed, and key metrics are monitored, including service, device, operational, and business metrics.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. DigitalOcean Droplets. minutes of downtime in one year.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 111

Storage Network Open Source Latency 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million” – Gartner Data observability is a practice that helps organizations understand the full lifecycle of data, from ingestion to storage and usage, to ensure data health and reliability. Solution : Like the freshness example, Dynatrace can monitor the record count over time.

DevOps 193

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 193

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Read/Write latency. Data Placement. System Coordination.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d pg_stat_monitor About pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL.

Benchmarking 125

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 125

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. It is built as part of the platform-as-a-service environment which provides customers with additional monitoring and security for the product. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. 5 among all database management systems and No. It ranks No.

Open Source 78

Open Source Database Scalability Software 78

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Website and Web Application Monitoring. Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. HTTP Monitoring. Network latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. The core component in Anna v11 is a monitoring system & policy engine that together enable workload-responsiveness and adaptability. As you can imagine, that was unreasonably expensive.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

Tuning 138

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 138

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Observability tools, such as metrics monitoring, log viewers, and tracing applications, are relatively small in scope. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

Artificial Intelligence 177

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 177

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access. The canononical cloud platform architecture decouples storage and compute services so that each can be scaled and operated independently, i.e., they are disaggregated.

Lambda 98

Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 126

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 126

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. These capabilities are vitally important to extract the full potential of real-time intelligent monitoring.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Serverless 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Broadly, these can be categorized as: reporting and dashboarding, embedded statistics in pages, time-series monitoring, and ad-hoc analysis. That’s hard for many reasons, including the differing trade-offs between throughput and latency that need to be made across the use cases. Reporting and dashboarding use cases (e.g.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance.

Latency 36

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Modern hybrid applications typically utilize public cloud components, including content delivery networks and cloud storage. Monitoring is critical for resiliency. Few things are as crucial to maintaining resilient applications as monitoring. In the modern age of site reliability, service availability must be continuous.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Database & functional migration. Dynatrace also has an answer for this question as we show you those hosts we are aware of, but that aren’t currently monitored: Dynatrace automatically highlights hosts, services and external domains that are currently not monitored! Step 4: Smart Database Migration.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? SQL Server 2005 introduces the snapshot database feature for point-in-time databases ​​ and online DBCC operations.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It would take 5–10 minutes after the problem occurred to appear as a problem, then people have to notice and respond to emails or pager text messages, dial into a conference call, and log in to monitoring dashboards before any human response can start. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It would take 5–10 minutes after the problem occurred to appear as a problem, then people have to notice and respond to emails or pager text messages, dial into a conference call, and log in to monitoring dashboards before any human response can start. Try to measure your mean time to respond (MTTR) for incidents.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53