The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 15, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri , and Senthil Sayeebaba In a previous post , we described the indexing architecture of Studio Search and how we scaled the architecture by building a config-driven self-service platform that allowed teams in Content Engineering to spin up search indices easily. Below are a couple of examples.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility.

Engineering 189

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I am going to use the MaterializedMySQL engine for this purpose. MaterializedMySQL Engine – Overview Prerequisites for the Replication Replication setup Replication testing Understanding ReplacingMergeTree What happens if the Replication event fails? Schema conversion from MySQL to ClickHouse will be taken care of by the engine.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. Rapid OneAgent rollouts on Google Kubernetes Engine. Dynatrace news. The OneAgent Helm chart is one-of-a-kind.

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DZone

MARCH 19, 2024

Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. With AWS Fargate, we can run applications without managing servers ( official information page ). In this post, we will take a step-by-step approach to deploying and running a.NET Core Web API application on AWS Fargate Service.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. This awareness is important when the goal is to drive cost-conscious engineering. ” But Dynatrace goes further.

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SQL Shack

AUGUST 23, 2021

In this article, we will go through some details about SQL Server statistics. The first step into SQL Server statistics The query plan is a set of instructions that describes how a query will be executed by the database engine. The query plans are created by the query optimizer in SQL Server and it requires […].

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Percona Community

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We will use Docker as a container engine tool and Percona Server for MySQL as a database administration tool. Percona Server for MySQL is a fork of MYSQL, providing much more advanced features. In this blog, we will explore databases on containers. Both are open source tools.

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DZone

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”).

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Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

In this blog post, we will look at the lifecycle and release management for MySQL and MariaDB servers — where we are now and relevant historical background. Percona plans As you read this on the Percona Blog, you may be interested in Percona’s plan for Percona Server for MySQL regarding announced changes.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization. For the most part, a site reliability engineer is focused on multiple tasks and projects at one time, so for most SREs, the various tools they use reflect their eve-evolving responsibilities. Programming Languages.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. Engineers should also integrate and execute API-based performance tests and SAST/DAST scans to the DevOps pipeline.

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SQL Shack

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The SQL Server execution plan (query plan) is a set of instructions that describes which process steps are performed while a query is executed by the database engine. The query plans are generated by the query optimizer and its essential goal is to generate the most efficient (optimum) and economical query plan.

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SQL Shack

APRIL 16, 2021

In this article, we will learn how to interpret an execution plan of a SQL Server insert statement. Introduction When we execute an insert statement, the database engine performs tons of work in the background. Consequently, […].

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server , Zhao et al., Today’s paper choice is a wonderful example of pushing the state of the art on a single server. Moreover, Pigasus wants to do all this on a single server! Can you really do all this on a single server?? OSDI’20. Please do join us if you can.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how you can migrate a comprehensive web application from MySQL to YugabyteDB using the open-source data migration engine YugabyteDB Voyager. Nowadays, many people migrate their applications from traditional, single-server relational databases to distributed database clusters.

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

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Percona

JUNE 1, 2023

Hello friends, on certain occasions, some clients, for whatever reason, ask us to migrate a supposedly “equivalent” brand of an engine in terms of belonging to the MySQL family or ecosystem. In this case, we will be analyzing the migration of MariaDB to Percona Server for MySQL 8 in particular. Simple, right?

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SQL Performance

JULY 19, 2022

Each log record has a fixed overhead so, sometimes, the Storage Engine breaks this rule by combining multiple changes into a single log record to reduce the total number of log records written to the log. There are between 70 and 100 log record types, depending on the version of SQL Server (there’s no documented list).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

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SQL Shack

JULY 28, 2020

The storage subsystem is one of the key performance factors for SQL Server because SQL Server storage engine stores database objects, tables, and indexes on the physical files. Therefore, the storage engine always interacts with the disk subsystem because of […].

Storage 82

Storage Servers Testing Engineering 82

Dotcom-Montior

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization, and as such, so do site reliability engineer tools. A typical SRE is busy automating, cleaning up code, upgrading servers, and continually monitoring dashboards for performance, etc., Programming Languages.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Dynatrace provides server metrics monitoring in under five minutes, showing servers’ CPU, memory, and network health metrics all the way through to the process level, with no manual configuration necessary. AL2023 is supported by Dynatrace on day one and has been thoroughly tested by our installations team. How does Dynatrace help?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

XML external entity (XXE) exploit The aXMLRPC library allows its users to connect to a server and perform RPC calls using the XML-RPC protocol over HTTP. A possibility to make this exploit successful is a man-in-the-middle attack that intercepts the connection to a legitimate server.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2024

Automate disk resizing operations with Davis AI predictive analytics The Dynatrace Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team was looking for a way to automatically adjust disk space for cloud volumes on a regular basis to avoid over- or under-provisioning them.

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DZone

MARCH 25, 2022

We envision the same for resilience tests, so Steadybit open-sourced a small library built with the knowledge from our Chaos Engineering platform to help you write resilience tests with minimal effort and without installing extra software on your servers. The library is available on Maven Central and Github for everyone.

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SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In this article, we will discuss a few very common questions that you may be asked during a SQL Server administrator or developer technical job interview. Q1: What is a SQL Server Execution Plan?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Site reliability engineering aims to keep servers and services running with zero downtime. This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. However, outages and incidents are inevitable, especially when dealing with a complex system that constantly gets new updates.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

In addition, they must often use disjointed database-specific tools to collaborate with engineers, database administrators, or application owners. Easily track the health and performance of database servers with AI support. Using Dynatrace Davis® AI, you can easily enable custom alerting that significantly reduces alert storms.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 3, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. However, instant messengers such as WhatsApp don’t save the messages permanently on their server. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Gathering Requirements.

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DZone

MARCH 14, 2023

As an engineer, you probably know that server performance under heavy load is crucial for maintaining the availability and responsiveness of your services. But what happens when traffic bursts overwhelm your system? Queueing requests is a common solution, but what's the best approach: FIFO or LIFO?

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 23, 2019

In traditional row-mode execution plans, SQL Server may introduce a Bitmap operator as part of performing early semi join reduction before a parallel hash or merge join. There have been major improvements since the first appearance of the batch mode execution engine in SQL Server 2012. The Execution Engine. Background.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

Key Components in SIEM Log Collection: SEIM systems collect and aggregate log data from Various sources across an organization’s network, including servers, endpoints, firewalls, applications, and other devices. Problem Statement In Data Engineering , the data/log collection is a challenging task for high-volume sources.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The partitioned memory and latch objects protect in-memory structures for short durations and can be sized according to available memory for SQL Server. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The lock manager’s implementation is different because locks protect logical entities for arbitrarily periods of time.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. Identify under-performing DNS servers. Slower response times can be a sign of a stressed DNS server or network communication issues.

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