The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances. This message is normally a side effect of a storage subsystem that is not capable of keeping up with the number of writes (e.g.,

AWS 117

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 117

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Dynatrace PurePath technology captures and analyzes transactions end to end across every tier of your application technology stack, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. Please watch disk space usage and extend it if needed.

Processing 156

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 156

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice. Another aspect of automation is to switch the traffic for the application from Main to Standby after promotion.

Storage 118

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 118

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

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. APM-292404). APM-293415). APM-295166). APM-298915). APM-295508).

Operating System 234

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 234

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

In this blog, I will share a solution to remove this space and remove rows from tables in a few seconds regardless of the size of a table without causing any additional load on the database using table partitions. MySQL won’t shrink tablespace and storage won’t be released to the file system. What is partitioning? ibd -rw-r --.

Traffic 59

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 59

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. they can can be two orders of magnitude faster than FastBitSet.js.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

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

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. The various types are: General purpose – Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, small to medium databases. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. VM Types and Sizes.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Thus, ensuring the atomicity of writes across different storage technologies remains a challenging problem for applications [3]. No need to acquire locks on tables, which is essential to ensure that the write traffic on the database is never blocked by our service. clock drift on the partition leader).

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

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

InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 55

Architecture Scalability Latency Traffic 55

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

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

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.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. Their starting rates is â?¬27.50

Wireless 109

Wireless AWS Internet Internet 109

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. Thanks to PurePath, architects can validate how transactions flow from service-to-service and how traffic gets routed through service mashes (AWS App Mesh, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices. NGINX as an API Gateway.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

AWS 93

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 93

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

One of the services that is very successful in driving innovation at our customers in this context is Amazon RDS , the Relational Database Service. Amazon RDS removes the headaches of running a relational database service reliably at scale, allowing Amazon RDS customers to focus on innovation for their customers. hands freeÃ?

Innovation 149

Innovation AWS Education Network 149

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Application traffic will be redirected to this new master MySQL node and the slave S2 will start replicating from the new master. Now, Pacemaker on the partition [(S1), (S2)] detects that there is no master available in the cluster and initiates a promotion process.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

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.”

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

The relational model and the standard querying language that is based on it are supposed to deal only with the conceptual aspects of the data and leave the physical implementation details like storage, optimization, access and processing of the data to the database platform (the implementation ). Persistency.

C++ 109

C++ Database Servers Code 109

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Syndication. or rss feed.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

The relational model and the standard querying language that is based on it are supposed to deal only with the conceptual aspects of the data and leave the physical implementation details like storage, optimization, access and processing of the data to the database platform (the implementation ). Persistency.

C++ 93

C++ Database Servers Code 93

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 ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Syndication. Subscribe to this weblogs.

AWS 113

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 113

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. This article will focus on the technology behind ScaleGrid’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions and how they align with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud structures.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In

Analytics 191

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191