All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance. Interoperability with Hadoop.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data volumes are growing all the time, making it harder to orchestrate, process, and analyze to turn information into insight. DevOps maturity is a model that measures the completeness and effectiveness of an organization’s processes for software development, delivery, operations, and monitoring. What is DevOps maturity?

DevOps 184

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 184

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. Additionally, the current version has some algorithmic limitations that we are in the process of improving before the official release.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. This process involves converting regular data into a coded form, which helps to protect its privacy and guard against cyber threats.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. CL provides an end-to-end solution for logging, processing, and analyzing user interactions on Netflix apps from all devices. What is your favorite project?

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A DBaaS automates several processes, such as using, erasing, and spinning up storage without interventions from IT staff. DBaaS companies already have that taken care of, in addition to many other automated processes. DBaaS companies have a lot of support for their automated processes. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

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. In this blog post, we saw how Kubernetes and Operators can simplify your DR design.

Storage 120

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 120

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables. isolate high risk areas).

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Grail stores and unifies all observability, security, and business data Now organizations can store all their observability, security, and business data in one repository: Grail , in Dynatrace without having to manage schemas, indexes, or storage tiers.

Monitoring 226

Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Performance Analytics 226

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

To achieve this, we’ll create a Grail bucket specifically designed to retain data for a duration of 10 years (3,657 days). These alerts serve as early business warnings, allowing you to take necessary measures to prevent disruptions and minimize delays in transaction processing.

Database 270

Database Artificial Intelligence Metrics Monitoring 270

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways AI integration in cloud computing increases operational efficiency by automating processes, optimizing resource allocation, and improving scalability, leading to cost savings and allowing IT teams to concentrate on strategic initiatives. Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. On the other hand, these optimizations themselves need to be sufficiently inexpensive to justify their own processing cost over the gains they bring.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. These tools account for differences among fab locations and fabrication processes.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. One of the co-founders of OpenTelemetry, Ted Young, gave a very interesting talk outlining the reasons why OTel is designed the way it is.

AWS 212

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 212

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 202

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 202

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Conversely, if users encounter functional issues or poor UI design that frustrate common actions, replays provide clear evidence. Replays provide on-demand data about where conversion processes aren’t working. Tools that feature client-side compression can help reduce total data transfer volumes and storage footprints.

Mobile 247

Mobile Website Analytics Cache 247

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

Availability 75

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 75

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. This process enables you to continuously evaluate software against predefined quality criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) in pre-production environments.

AWS 247

AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 247

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. Data is then dynamically routed into pipelines for further processing.

Analytics 194

Analytics Processing Transportation Storage 194

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. One of the co-founders of OpenTelemetry, Ted Young, gave a very interesting talk outlining the reasons why OTel is designed the way it is.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

The following resources provide more information on how to get the most out of your AI investment, the importance of data quality for business success, and automating manual IT processes to prioritize innovation. Teams face siloed processes and toolsets, vast volumes of data, and redundant manual tasks.

Performance 186

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 186

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. Old design (until Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27): New design (from Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28) A node completes the SST process faster and joins the PXC cluster quickly.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration. Why perform exclusion at two points?

Design 192

Design Storage Programming Analytics 192

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used. Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

One of our design principles is to make sure that Dynatrace is as easy to set up and use as possible. The installation (and automatic update) of OneAgent is an important part of the delivery process. Smaller network and Dynatrace cluster storage footprint. Dynatrace news. msi-based deployment.

Efficiency 117

Efficiency Network Storage Architecture 117

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The list of AWS certifications below shows there are two main AWS certification types: Core and Specialty, six classified as Core AWS Certifications, and five designated as Specialty AWS Certifications. If your company is pursuing AWS certification for a team, AWS Certification Exam Vouchers make the process easier.

AWS 209

AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 209

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Particular Software

JUNE 20, 2022

of our CosmosDB persistence package , we’ve made defining the partition key for each message processed by NServiceBus much more straightforward, without needing a custom pipeline behavior. We’ve also added pessimistic concurrency support for more reliable processing of sagas with high contention patterns. In version 1.1

Azure 52

Azure Storage Strategy Tuning 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163