The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. Snowflake is a data warehouse designed to overcome these limitations, and the fundamental mechanism by which it achieves this is the decoupling (disaggregation) of compute and storage. joins) during query processing. Disaggregation (or not).

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently? Its main data caching structure for the standard InnoDB storage engine is called Buffer Pool. I strongly believe there’s an important place for this graph on “data caching efficiency” for MySQL in PMM. MySQL does.

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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. MezzFS has a number of features, including: Stream objects ?— ?

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

which offers a range of updates: HTTP/2 support: Fluentbit now supports HTTP/2, enabling efficient data transmission with Gzip compression for OpenTelemetry data, enhancing pipeline performance. By default, you have a storage type memory, but you may exceed this buffer limit if you have a lot of data. What’s new in Fluent Bit 3.0

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

An open-source distributed SQL query engine, Trino is widely used for data analytics on distributed data storage. Optimizing Trino to make it faster can help organizations achieve quicker insights and better user experiences, as well as cut costs and improve infrastructure efficiency and scalability. But how do we do that?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Predictive AI empowers site reliability engineers (SREs) and DevOps engineers to detect anomalies and irregular patterns in their systems long before they escalate into critical incidents. Through predictive analytics, SREs and DevOps engineers can accurately forecast resource needs based on historical data. Capacity planning.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For IT infrastructure managers and site reliability engineers, or SREs , logs provide a treasure trove of data. In most data storage models, indexing engines enable faster access to query logs. But indexing requires schema management and additional storage to be effective, which adds cost and overhead.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. Ingest and process with Grail.

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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. Snapshots provide point-in-time captures of the dataset, which are efficient for recovery on startup.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

AI-enabled chatbots can help service teams triage customer issues more efficiently. Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

This complexity has surfaced seven top Kubernetes challenges that strain engineering teams and ultimately slow the pace of innovation. Kubernetes enables efficient resource utilization by easily scaling applications and services based on demand. At the same time, it also introduces a large amount of complexity. What is Kubernetes?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Progressive rollouts, rollbacks, storage orchestration, bin packing, self-healing, cost efficiency, and access to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem carry heavy observability challenges. Such context is easy to understand using the Dynatrace Davis AI engine. Incidents are harder to solve.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

With the right log management and observability platform, IT teams can efficiently identify the root cause of problems during these peak times and maintain three-nines of availability — or 99.98%. Cold storage and rehydration. Cold storage and rehydration. Better-quality code. Inadequate context.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value. This approach is cumbersome and challenging to operate efficiently at scale. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Limited data availability constrains value creation.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data. Polymorphic Data Storage. Major Use Cases.

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DZone

JULY 20, 2021

Taking a proactive and efficient approach to Kubernetes cluster monitoring can help engineering teams identify and predict many critical problems like CPU outage, memory outage, storage issues well in advance of these issues taking a toll on a business. Introduction.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the previous installment of this blog series , we explored how to set up Dynatrace as a build-stage orchestrator to effectively address the challenges faced by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). Davis AI efficiently identified the deployment change as the potential root cause for the malfunctioning of nginx.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2024

This way, disruptions are minimized, MTTR is significantly decreased, and DevSecOps and SREs collaborate efficiently to boost productivity. Problem remediation is too time-consuming According to the DevOps Automation Pulse Survey 2023 , on average, a software engineer takes nine hours to remediate a problem within a production application.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

With the right log management and observability platform, IT teams can efficiently identify the root cause of problems during these peak times and maintain three-nines of availability — or 99.98%. Cold storage and rehydration. Cold storage and rehydration. Better-quality code. Inadequate context.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. Media Feature Storage: Amber Storage Media feature computation tends to be expensive and time-consuming. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

During a Dynatrace Perform 2024 breakout session, Dynatrace colleagues Bipin Singh, product marketing director, and Markie Duby, principal solutions engineer, showed how organizations can bring together observability, security, and business data from cloud-native and multicloud environments with Dynatrace.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. This is achieved by more efficiently spacing the ladder points, especially in the high-bitrate region. Krasula, A. Choudhury, S. Malfait, A.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Building in-video search To build such a visual search engine, we needed a machine learning system that can understand visual elements. Engineering and Infrastructure Our trained model gives us a text encoder and a video encoder. We hope this post has been interesting to you.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

It starts with implementing data governance practices, which set standards and policies for data use and management in areas such as quality, security, compliance, storage, stewardship, and integration. Fragmented and siloed data storage can create inconsistencies and redundancies.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

As a result, organizations need software to work perfectly to create customer experiences, deliver innovation, and generate operational efficiency. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

The decision to ban competing browser engines is as old as iOS, but Apple has only attempted to explain itself in recent years. Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Apple's Arguments #. If no, please explain why not.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. The issue is that Anna is now orders of magnitude more efficient than competing systems, in addition to being orders of magnitude faster. What's changed ?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. A bloom filter is a space-efficient way of storing information about a list of keys. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB.

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