The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

AV1 playback on TV platforms relies on hardware solutions, which generally take longer to be deployed. Throughout 2020 the industry made impressive progress on AV1 hardware solutions. The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Stay tuned!

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Serverless computing can be a huge benefit to organizations that don’t have the necessary resources or teams to manage physical resources, like servers/hardware, and all the maintenance and licensing that goes along with that, allowing them to focus on developing their code and applications. Monitoring. Benefits of a Serverless Model.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Mitigating performance risks moves to SaaS vendors.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure. This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient.

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Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. ” under heavy load + I_S queries” to check for performance degradation.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. “ For instance, Facebook applications issue tens-of-trillions of inference queries per day with varying performance, accuracy, and cost constraints.”

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. What is log monitoring? Log monitoring vs log analytics.

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Error tracking is a vital component to any web project because it helps you pinpoint performance problems before they get out of hand. Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Front-End Error Tracking Older error monitoring tools were primarily focused on back-end errors.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As an application owner, you need to ensure the continuous availability and performance of your applications from your end-users’ point of view. With Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring, you can easily do this by setting up private locations for your environments. Deploy private Synthetic locations clusterwide in Dynatrace Managed.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. Optimize timing hotspots.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. Pipeline reliability and performance go hand in hand. If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

In the recent webinar, Good to great: Case studies in excellence on state and local government transformations, Tammy Zbojniewicz, enterprise monitoring and service delivery owner within Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management, and Budget (DTMB), illustrates that meeting both objectives is possible.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Community support One of the most significant advantages of open source databases is the expansive global community of users, developers, DBAs, and enthusiasts who collaborate to provide a seemingly never-ending array of how-tos, resources, guidance, and solutions to help you make your database more performant and secure.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. Performing updates, installing software, and resolving hardware issues requires up to 17 hours of developer time every week.

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VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

because they want to use a lower k- factor (even 0) on the replica cluster to lower hardware costs. Recovery time can vary depending on the amount of data, the number of nodes, the hardware, and the number of indexes and views in the schema. Some customers use scripts or monitoring tools to automate this.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Container technology is very powerful as small teams can develop and package their application on laptops and then deploy it anywhere into staging or production environments without having to worry about dependencies, configurations, OS, hardware, and so on. Here are some of the tasks orchestration platforms are challenged to perform.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

This is especially the case with microservices and applications created around multiple tiers, where cheaper hardware alternatives play a significant role in the infrastructure footprint. Here are details of the capabilities included in this release of OneAgent for Linux on the ARM platform: Deep-code monitoring. What’s included.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Despite its benefits, serverless computing introduces additional monitoring challenges for developers and IT Operations, particularly in understanding dependencies and identifying issues in the end-to-end traces that flow through a complex mix of dynamic and hybrid on-premise/cloud environments. Optimize timing hotspots.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

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Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. They provide flexibility in data organization and performance optimization compared to the default setup. What are MySQL general tablespaces? For instance: mysql> show create table authorsG 1.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. Monitoring, alerting and auto-remediation The Insight Engineering team is responsible for building and operating the tools for operational insight, alerting, diagnostics, and auto-remediation.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Horizontal and vertical MySQL partitions are techniques used to divide tables into smaller sections for improved performance and management. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance. Watch this on-demand webinar from Percona to learn how! In version 5.7,

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters. So stay tuned. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

It is built as part of the platform-as-a-service environment which provides customers with additional monitoring and security for the product. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

But for this to be realized in a practical manner, the system has to (1) be able to accurately control its aggressiveness to minimize the impact on application performance, and (2) be resilient to the variation of cold memory behavior across different machines,clusters, and jobs. Enter zswap!

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Having released this functionality in an Early Adopter Release with OneAgent version 1.173 and Dynatrace version 1.174 back in August 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of OneAgent full-stack monitoring for Linux on the IBM Z platform, sometimes informally referred to as Z/Linux. What’s included.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

If we are not prepared for this, the application performance will start degrading, and you will lose your audience and business. It’s not just a simple tweak you can turn on/off; it’s a long-time process that touches almost every single item in your stack, including both hardware and software sides of the system.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Integration Showcase: Dynatrace & Dotcom-Monitor’s LoadView. Dotcom-Monitor’s LoadView and Dynatrace are performance-engineering platforms by heart. This showcase demonstrates how the combination of both tools will close remaining gaps in the performance engineering chain. Trial account for Dynatrace SaaS.

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