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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

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Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. Compare Latency. At a glance – TLDR.

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Optimizing your Kubernetes clusters without breaking the bank

Dynatrace

Its ability to densely schedule containers into the underlying machines translates to low infrastructure costs. Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. SREcon21 – Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning. The Akamas approach.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. We expanded pipeline support to serve our studio/content-development use cases, which had different latency and resiliency requirements as compared to the traditional streaming use case. divide the input video into small chunks 2.

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Enhancing Kubernetes cluster management key to platform engineering success

Dynatrace

“We use AI to optimize the configuration of the software stack,” Doni said, highlighting how Akamas works by taking into account infrastructure and application metrics at the same time to achieve its optimization goals. You can ask for the best configuration to reduce latency or improve the user experience.”

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely

The Netflix TechBlog

To determine customer impact, we could compare various metrics such as error rates, latencies, and time to render. A Sticky Canary is an infrastructure experiment where customers are assigned either to a canary or baseline host for the entire duration of an experiment. Are things loading in time before the user loses interest?

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