The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This model of computing has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it offers a number of benefits, including cost savings, flexibility, scalability, and increased efficiency. This means that users only pay for the computing resources they actually use, rather than having to invest in expensive hardware and software upfront.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once established, chaos engineering becomes an effective way to fine tune service-level indicators and objectives, improve alerting, and build more efficient dashboards, so you know you are collecting all the data you need to accurately observe and analyze your environment. Accelerates innovation. Advances collaboration.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Experiencing database performance issues?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Like any move, a cloud migration requires a lot of planning and preparation, but it also has the potential to transform the scope, scale, and efficiency of how you deliver value to your customers. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. Here are three.

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ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Jason Lowe-Power (UC Davis) discussed smart memory management and the need for an efficient interface for it. Using emulation (e.g.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. Also known as a “correct by construction” approach to security.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

ITSM defines how teams design, create, and deliver their services. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. These tools should be utilized along with your monitoring strategy.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.

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CSS Wizardry

APRIL 2, 2018

As I currently do listen to almost exclusively digitally streamed music, it was important to design a solution that was appropriate. Shure SE425 in-ear monitors. I’ve tried many brands and styles over the years, from in-ears, to on-ears, to circumaural, to monitors, and finally settling on the Shure SE425s a few years ago.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Design your test without the hassle of managing hardware, giving you the ability to identify objectives and define a scenario by setting up a number of users and test duration. Shift Right – Monitoring Performance after Deployment. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

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Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

From the maintenance and monitoring of the machines and software to upgrading and installations — you’ll need all hands on deck. More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. As the name suggests, it happens on-premise.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

In addition to automatic full-stack monitoring, Dynatrace provides comprehensive support for a wide range of AWS services. We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the Amazon RDS Service Ready designation. All-in-one, AI-powered monitoring of AWS applications and infrastructure.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. There are multiple sources of queueing in both hardware and software, and Seer works best when using deep instrumentation to capture these.

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Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The behaviour of the server can improve or become less efficient under different scenarios such as the following: New code changes. New hardware changes/upgrades. Various parameters need to monitored while load testing an application. In this design, user load will be steadily distributed for the given time of test.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

By leveraging the Dynatrace Operator and Dynatrace capabilities on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power, customers can accelerate their modernization to hybrid cloud and increase operational efficiencies with greater visibility across the full stack from hardware through application processes.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. With performance optimization at its core along with mitigating risks associated with relying solely on one cloud provider or taking advantage of cost efficiencies. What is Hybrid Cloud?

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. This means despite having extensive observability and monitoring we cannot detect new problems or issues unless we go through them. This can be efficient at the beginning but counter-productive in a long run.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Should I be bringing in external experts to help out?

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 25, 2019

Designing far memory data structures: think outside the box Aguilera et al., Therefore, if we want to make full use of one-sided far memory, we need to think carefully about the design of our data structures to make that access efficient. This makes it challenging to design effective far memory data structures.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is recommended to lower this setting and monitor the impact on query performance and disk IO. Set the value to 60-70% and monitor the memory usage. Learn how you can Improve MongoDB Performance with Percona Monitoring and Management. For example, on a 128GB memory host, this can allow up to 38.4GB of dirty pages.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. Deployment performs the whole rollout, instrumentation, configuration, connection, and automatic detection of monitored entities in your environment.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. What is the difference between monitoring and observability? Is observability really monitoring by another name? In short, no.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Monitoring your database for dead tuples (bloat) is also recommended.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Such policies would be designed to mitigate legal problems and require regulatory compliance. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Design tools suitable for professional use don’t exist yet, but they will appear very soon. of users and 3.9%

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts. CPU power efficiency is strongly tied to how long the CPU can stay asleep ( 8+ ms is apparently a good number ), and random wakeups work against that. This used to be a reasonable design choice, and now it doesn’t work.

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Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. General-purpose hypervisors and virtual machine monitors (VMMs) are also quite large, leading to a large trusted compute base (TCB). The design of Firecracker.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Waits data is surfaced by many SQL Server performance monitoring solutions, and I've been an advocate of tuning using this methodology since the beginning.

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