The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Data Science and Engineering team. Before joining Netflix, she worked in the advertising and e-commerce industries as a backend software engineer. Pallavi received her master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon.

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

If you’re evaluating container orchestration software to manage containerized applications at scale, you may be wondering about the differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

Open Source 205

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 205

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Software developers are finding it easier to integrate with the DBaaS model, especially when developing mobile apps. DBaaS, a prominent cloud service, is one of the fastest-growing categories of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings and is expected to reach $320 billion by 2025. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

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. The graphic below (Fig. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

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.

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Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

DevOps maturity is a model that measures the completeness and effectiveness of an organization’s processes for software development, delivery, operations, and monitoring. When data storage strategies become problematic to DevOps maturity Data warehouse-based approaches add cost and time to analytics projects.

DevOps 183

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 183

Percona

MARCH 11, 2024

Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their Persistent Volumes and underlying storage within Kubernetes. In our Operators, we use Stateful Sets – a Kubernetes resource that was designed for […]

Storage 91

Storage Cloud Design Availability 91

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.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

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 123

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 123

DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

The workload could refer to anything from an increase in users, storage, or a number of transactions. To make an easy-to-scale system, it is crucial to have an evolutionary way of thinking about the software development cycle.

Scalability 100

Scalability Software Architecture Storage Architecture 100

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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 211

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 211

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona software is designed for peak performance, uncompromised security, limitless scalability, and disaster-proofed availability. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. Take a look. was released.

Open Source 82

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 82

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.

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AWS Efficiency Azure Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI data analysis can help development teams release software faster and at higher quality. Another key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 is organizations’ growing adoption of platform engineering , which helps accelerate the delivery of software applications.

Performance 185

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 185

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The bad On the other hand, Kubernetes is not designed to handle large databases or mainframes. However, Kubernetes does introduce additional layers, particularly in storage and networking. Another case is where you are struggling with automating your day-to-day routine, and your custom scripts are maintained by a separate team now.

Open Source 88

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 88

Tasktop

JANUARY 9, 2020

Turning software delivery data into IT and business intelligence is nothing new; it’s the 21st-century gold rush. Yet getting to this level of maturity is a herculean undertaking, especially for IT organizations looking to obtain accurate cross-tool reporting that provides them with business-critical insights into their software delivery.

Software 59

Software Software Metrics Database 59

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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 210

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 210

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

Virtualization 160

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

ITOps refers to the process of acquiring, designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining equipment and services that support an organization’s desired business outcomes. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence 201

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 201

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.

Design 191

Design Storage Programming Analytics 191

Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

RUM is passive monitoring that measures a user’s interactions with an application — typically with a JavaScript tag for web applications or a software development kit (SDK) for native mobile apps. Real-user monitoring (RUM). Endpoint monitoring (EM). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Social Media IoT Metrics 202

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

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 79

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 79

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. PostgreSQL has powerful and advanced features, including asynchronous replication, full-text searches of the database, and native support for JSON-style storage, key-value storage, and XML. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

Open Source 81

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 81

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Replay software also captures web assets such as CSS so it can create accurate recordings even if your website changes. Conversely, if users encounter functional issues or poor UI design that frustrate common actions, replays provide clear evidence. The result is a complete recreation of the user experience in a video-like format.

Mobile 246

Mobile Website Analytics Cache 246

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage. The final design The downloader starts the number of workers, which equals the concurrency (number of CPU cores by default). We aim to port it to Azure Blob and FileSystem storage types in subsequent releases.

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Speed Storage AWS Azure 83

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. As of June 2021, Amazon currently offers 11 certifications. Core AWS certifications.

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AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 208

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 29, 2018

Having just concluded participation in another In-Memory Computing Summit , it has become even more clear to me that the key to mainstream adoption of in-memory computing software platforms is architecture — the root of a platform’s value to applications. One indicator of a useful software architecture is that it provides unexpected benefits.

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Software Architecture Architecture Software Software 40