The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Joe Brockmeier gave a talk on this topic earlier this year at Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver – “ Are Containers Ready for Production Databases ?” At Percona, our team has successfully utilized Jenkins alongside Kubernetes, ensuring smooth automated testing of our Operators and other products.

Open Source 90

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 90

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the case of InnoDB tablespaces, this information is incorporated into the tablespace itself, creating a fusion of metadata and data primarily to enhance performance. MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. 1 mysql mysql 2.8K

Storage 98

Storage Database Engineering Open Source 98

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

Serverless 115

Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 115

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There are many things I love about it – PL/ PG SQL, smart defaults, replication (that actually works out of the box), and an active and vibrant open source community. Hopefully we can generate enough interest in the open source community to prioritize these features. are used to handle this scenario.

Database 184

Database Open Source Storage Servers 184

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage. 221121 13:04:52 xbcloud: Sleeping for 2384 ms before retrying test/mysql.ibd.00000000000000000002 00000000000000000002 [1] 221121 13:05:09 xbcloud: successfully uploaded chunk: test/mysql.ibd.00000000000000000002,

Storage 97

Storage Open Source AWS Servers 97

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 was released.

Open Source 83

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 83

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. Another reason for PostgreSQL popularity (perhaps the biggest): It’s open source and free to use, distribute, and modify. What is PostgreSQL used for?

Open Source 82

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 82

Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Since database hosting is more dependent on memory (RAM) than storage, we are going to compare various instance sizes ranging from just 1GB of RAM up to 64GB of RAM so you can see how costs vary across different application workloads. High performance. MongoDB is the #3 open source and #1 NoSQL database in the world.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

Open Source 96

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard for passing messages between applications and organizations. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it.

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 196

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. The A dvanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard for passing messages between applications and organizations. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it.

Monitoring 195

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 195

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. In version 1.x, Will Percona still support v1?

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 98

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

providing a convenient way to perform these alterations without locking the table. mysql> select * from information_schema.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA = 'test' and TABLE_NAME in ('varchar_alter') and COLUMN_NAME = '_varchar'G 1. After changing the VARCHAR column size to 200, the following is the storage requirement.

Storage 83

Storage Database Open Source Engineering 83

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Percona XtraBackup is an open source hot backup utility for MySQL-based servers. To take consistent and hot backup, it uses various locking methods, especially for non-transactional storage engine tables. version is affected by this, as per my tests. Only MySQL 5.7 So for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

Storage 105

Storage Engineering Open Source Servers 105

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.

Open Source 92

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 92

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

.* TO repl; mysql> SET SQL_LOG_BIN=1; mysql> CHANGE REPLICATION SOURCE TO PRIVILEGE_CHECKS_USER = repl FOR CHANNEL 'channel1'; mysql> START REPLICA; 1 row in set (0.00 Minimal performance issues may be noticed. SESSION VARIABLES ADMIN might be a security risk if the replication provider is unreliable.

Storage 91

Storage Open Source Database Engineering 91

Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

sec) Now, let’s delete the last record (ID 4) from the “users” table, perform a restart, and inspect the table’s contents: mysql> delete from users where id=4; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 We will create a table called “users” to store user information: Table Creation in MySQL 5.7:

Servers 114

Servers Storage Database Open Source 114

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, since backup speed and compactness are important for busy, important databases, Percona’s open source physical backup solution – Percona XtraBackup (PXB) , takes into account all these aspects and benefits MySQL world with its exceptional capabilities! Create new directories for storing redo log archives.

C++ 109

C++ Servers Storage Speed 109

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

CSS - Tricks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In that example, usually, we’re thinking about performance moreso than energy consumption, but that’s interesting right away: does good performance map to lower energy usage? They were testing mobile web apps on Android using Lighthouse scores. Things that lead to poor performance are things that take energy.

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Website Energy Storage Efficiency 97

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

When a new node joins the cluster, SST is performed to receive the data from DONOR to the JOINER. Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. This search tuple (key) is used to find the record to perform the undo operation. ibd in the test directory. ibd > t1.sdi

Cache 89

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. This allows us to proactively push changes to the open source version while ensuring that the changes are fully functional and well-tested. Validations and Testing Dry runs, i.e

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO. High performance compute – Fastest and most powerful CPU virtual machines. and the overall size will determine the amount of temporary storage available.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! both for compute and storage. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.

Open Source 232

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 79

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 79

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Engineering teams often gravitate toward a 100% do-it-yourself approach, which is OK for experimentation and testing. AI-powered precise answers and timely insights with ad-hoc analytics. AI-powered precise answers and timely insights with ad-hoc analytics. Automation at scale.

Innovation 193

Innovation Software Software Cloud 193

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Many MongoDB clusters use storage-level snapshots to provide fast and reliable backups. To start realistic compatibility and performance testing, we needed to restore the filesystem snapshot backup that was stored on NetApp volume in GCP into a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster running Percona Operator for MongoDB.

Storage 109

Storage Cloud Servers Google 109

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing. Service mash insights.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management.

Cache 109

Cache Servers Code Storage 109

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 First, let’s try streaming copy from mysql57 to mysql8 server as this does not need additional storage. Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL.

Servers 108

Servers C++ Storage Systems 108

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! both for compute and storage. For the open-source release, we partnered with AWS to provide a seamless integration between Metaflow and various AWS services.

Open Source 134

Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134