The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

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DZone

APRIL 11, 2023

This article will explore how these technologies can be used together to create an optimized data pipeline for data processing in the cloud. It provides built-in connectors for various data sources such as databases, file systems, cloud storage, and more.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

While Kubernetes is still a relatively young technology, a large majority of global enterprises use it to run business-critical applications in production. Findings provide insights into Kubernetes practitioners’ infrastructure preferences and how they use advanced Kubernetes platform technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 346

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 346

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 132

Storage Scalability Database Technology 132

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. It uses a hash table to manage these pairs, divided into fixed-size buckets with linked lists for key-value storage. Data transfer technology.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. Preparation for PITR is crucial and involves enabling binary logging and creating a full database backup. It is important to begin with a thorough database backup to prepare for such situations.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

Relational databases have been around for a long time. The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. Those fundamentals helped make relational databases immensely popular with users everywhere.

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Database Design Cloud AWS 156

Percona Community

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Tech that makes our databases perform better. In this blog post we’re going to see those technologies at work to give us awesome block storage performance with flexibility and simple operations. Mayastor + SPDK + NVMe = fast databases Mayastor is new tech, it’s fast, and it’s based on SPDK. At MayaData we like new tech.

Storage 52

Storage Latency Speed Database 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Teams need a technology boost to deal with managing cloud-native data volumes, such as using a data lakehouse for centralizing, managing, and analyzing data. Many organizations, including the global advisory and technology services provider, ICF, describe DevOps maturity using a DevOps maturity model framework.

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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. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Rise of Cloud Adoption in Enterprises The adoption of cloud technology is leading to a shift in the business landscape. The selection process for a suitable cloud provider is crucial as it involves aligning business objectives, regulatory requirements, and current technological infrastructure with strong cloud security measures.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand. Technology Enabling Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud The functioning of various hybrid cloud deployment models is supported by a range of technologies.

Strategy 147

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. 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.

Artificial Intelligence 147

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. HyperScale Database. DTU Pricing Tier.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Have a look at the full range of supported technologies. Dynatrace news. New to Dynatrace?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

In the process, they’re adopting more tools and technologies. These technologies generate a crush of observability data. High storage costs. To make searches more manageable, teams rely on database indexing. This combination offers rich data management and analytics on top of low-cost cloud storage.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. Additionally, it provides index-free storage and direct analytics access to source data without requiring data rehydration. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Enter graph databases.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. Given that I have frequently written about many of these technologies on this blog I asked investor relations to be allowed to reprint it here.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Unraveling these hidden threats requires a proactive and adaptive approach, leveraging advanced technologies and threat intelligence to uncover vulnerabilities and mitigate potential risks. Log storage and data retention : As regulations grow more stringent, data retention requirements and costs can quickly mount.

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Analytics Metrics Database Storage 223

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Not available.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Integrating technology from private and public clouds and on-premises resources within one hybrid cloud platform creates an integrated IT infrastructure that leverages the strengths of each component. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services.

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

The agent also enables rotation of recovery keys after use, local storage and validation of recovery keys, and other features. In its typical configuration the Crypt agent enforces FileVault upon login and escrows the resulting recovery key to a corresponding Crypt server. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

Open Source 194

Open Source Database Servers Storage 194

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. The rationale was simple: the data I need is already in this other database, and accessing a database is easy, so I’ll just reach in and grab what I need. And data was at the heart of the problem.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

Artificial Intelligence 182

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 182

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. You’re also not certain its features will always align with your evolving technology needs. 5 among all database management systems and No.

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