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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

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.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. Teams can build on these SLO examples to improve application performance and reliability. In this post, I’ll lay out five SLO examples that every DevOps and SRE team should consider. or 99.99% of the time.

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Storage handling improvements increase retention of transaction data for Dynatrace Managed

Dynatrace

Using existing storage resources optimally is key to being able to capture the right data over time. Dynatrace stores transaction data (for example, PurePaths and code-level traces) on disk for 10 days by default. Compression of data that’s older than three days utilizes one virtual CPU.

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Virtual consensus in Delos

The Morning Paper

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. If you think of this a bit like mapping memory addresses to data in memory, then another parallel comes to mind: the virtual address space. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. What does the VirtualLog give us?

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Partitioned Hive Table Across Storage Systems Using Alluxio

DZone

However, Hive cannot access a single table directly using a single query with the data of this Hive table across different mediums of storage and different clusters. In this regard, data will always reside in the under-storage system as the source of truth and can be residing temporarily in the Alluxio file system.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

As an example, cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines demand a complex set of functionalities, including the generation and hosting of high quality proxy content. The following table gives us an example of file sizes for 4K ProRes 422 HQ proxies.

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How to Create a Sparse File

DZone

Virtual machine images are examples of spare files. For instance, when I create a VirtualBox machine and assign it a maximum storage of 100Gb, only the storage corresponding to the actual data in the machine is consumed. Reading a hole returns a null byte.

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