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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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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. On the other hand, these optimizations themselves need to be sufficiently inexpensive to justify their own processing cost over the gains they bring.

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Dynatrace OpenPipeline: Stream processing data ingestion converges observability, security, and business data at massive scale for analytics and automation in context

Dynatrace

Organizations choose data-driven approaches to maximize the value of their data, achieve better business outcomes, and realize cost savings by improving their products, services, and processes. Data is then dynamically routed into pipelines for further processing. Addressing security requirements.

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

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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. This decompression of data is achieved with minimal impact on performance and costs. Increased storage space availability. Storage quotas defined for your Dynatrace Managed deployment and its environments.

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Advancing Application Performance with NVMe Storage, Part 3

DZone

NVMe Storage Use Cases. NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. There are several AI/ML focused use cases to highlight.

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