The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scalable Annotation Service — Marken by Varun Sekhri , Meenakshi Jindal Introduction At Netflix, we have hundreds of micro services each with its own data models or entities. One of the key initiatives at Netflix, Media Search Platform, now uses Marken to store annotations and perform various searches explained below.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

But rigorous requirements for security, production readiness, scalability, and reliability can make adopting OpenTelemetry challenging for teams to maintain at enterprise scale. Organizations use it to collect and send data to a backend, such as Dynatrace, that can analyze software performance and behavior.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2023

Welcome back to our series on API design principles for optimal performance and scalability. In our previous blog post, we explored the importance of designing high-performance APIs and the key factors that influence API performance. In this article, we will build upon the concepts discussed in the previous blog post.

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DZone

JUNE 13, 2023

Scalability has become the biggest buzzword in the world of Modern Applications for a good reason. In short, it is the ability to handle more data, more users, and more demand without sacrificing performance, reliability, or security. It is not uncommon to question why scalability has grabbed the attention of the masses these days.

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DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2023

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, performance optimization plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of applications that rely on the integration of APIs and databases. Efficient and responsive API and database integration is vital for achieving high-performing applications.

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DZone

JULY 6, 2023

Azure Cosmos DB is a highly scalable and globally distributed NoSQL database service offered by Microsoft. To ensure optimal performance and scalability of applications running on Cosmos DB, it's crucial to employ effective performance optimization techniques. The same is the case with Cosmos DB as well.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2023

Large enterprises face different challenges A well-described synthetic check can reduce, and in many cases avoid, unforeseen downtime due to failure domains by replicating the expected user journey and measuring its performance. These numbers serve as limits for scalability, utilizing the power of the Kubernetes platform.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With the help of these potent tools, businesses can monitor the performance, availability, and security of their cloud resources in real-time. Organizations can now take advantage of scalable resources and increased flexibility thanks to the rapid transformation of the IT landscape brought about by cloud computing.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

that offers security, scalability, and simplicity of use. Python code also carries limited scalability and the burden of governing its security in production environments and lifecycle management. Scalability and failover Extensions 2.0 and focusing on a much-improved version 2.0 Extensions 2.0 Extensions 2.0 Extensions 2.0

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DZone

APRIL 13, 2022

Why Is Kubernetes Performance Tuning Needed? As Kubernetes becomes a basic infrastructure for many organizations, performance tuning for Kubernetes clusters is becoming more important. Kubernetes is a highly scalable open-source platform for orchestrating containerized workloads in server environments. Image Source.

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InfoQ

MARCH 7, 2024

The main drivers for creating a new architecture were challenges around reliability, scalability, observability/debugibility, as well as technical debt impeding the team’s ability to maintain the existing solution. By Rafal Gancarz

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DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Poorly optimized queries can lead to slow response times and increased load on the database server, negatively impacting user experience and system performance. Optimization techniques can significantly reduce the query execution time, making the database more responsive and scalable.

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DZone

JUNE 28, 2023

Scalability testing is an approach to non-functional software testing that checks how well applications and infrastructure perform under increased or decreased workload conditions. The organization can optimize infrastructure costs and create the best user experience by determining server-side robustness and client-side degradation.

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DZone

APRIL 16, 2020

This post will look specifically at the role of performance and scalability testing. In this article, we'll examine some of the enterprise implications of coronavirus and what steps companies can take to mitigate them.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Optimizing Trino to make it faster can help organizations achieve quicker insights and better user experiences, as well as cut costs and improve infrastructure efficiency and scalability. In this article, we will show you how to tune Trino by helping you identify performance bottlenecks and provide tuning tips that you can practice.

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2024

The revised architecture improved scalability and deployability and reduced resource utilization. The team at lastminute.com rearchitected the search result aggregation process by breaking up the single service into multiple ones and introducing asynchronous integration. By Rafal Gancarz

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DZone

JANUARY 17, 2022

There are tools that simply help you monitor the overall performance of an app while it's in use on a device. To design a scalable Android application in a multi-core device environment, an Android developer must be able to create concurrent execution lines that mix and match data from many resources.

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InfoQ

OCTOBER 28, 2023

DoorDash rearchitected the heterogeneous caching system they were using across all of their microservices and created a common, multi-layered cache providing a generic mechanism and solving a number of issues coming from the adoption of a fragmented cache. By Sergio De Simone

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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. In this article, we explain why you should pay attention to when building a scalable application. What Is Application Scalability?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

As organizations continue to expand within cloud-native environments using Google Cloud, ensuring scalability becomes a top priority. Visit Dynatrace booth #1141 during the event to explore how its real-time insights and optimization capabilities ensure seamless scalability and performance.

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DZone

JULY 19, 2023

To address this need, the integration of cloud computing and virtualization has emerged as a groundbreaking solution as these technologies boast scalability and flexibility, entirely transforming the operational landscape. The IT infrastructure and services will reach $35.98 billion by 2025.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

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InfoQ

MARCH 15, 2024

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing. By Rafal Gancarz

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

These are the goals of AI observability and data observability, a key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , the observability provider’s annual conference, which takes place in Las Vegas from January 29 to February 1, 2024. Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.'

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These are just some of the topics being showcased at Perform 2023 in Las Vegas. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. What’s more, organizations are no longer concerned only about application performance and sales numbers. We’ll post news here as it happens!

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DZone

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you are a site reliability engineer (SRE) for a large Kubernetes-powered application, optimizing resources and performance is a daunting job. Continually keeping tabs on performance and putting the optimal amount of resources in the right place is essentially impossible.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

ITIL Version 4 Capacity and Performance Management in an Agile Container World by Chris Molloy, IBM. – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it. . – System performance management is an important topic – and James is going to share a practical method for it.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Application performance Review (also known as Application Performance Walkthrough or Application Performance Assessment) is the process of review of an existing application (in production) to evaluate its performance and scalability attributes. I would like to see a review of this performance!

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2024

These storage alternatives have been designed to meet a range of requirements, including performance, scalability, durability, and price. These storage options are intended to suit certain needs, such as scalability, durability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

However, a more scalable approach would be to begin with a new foundation and begin a new building. The facilities are modern, spacious and scalable. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies.

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Professor Beekums

AUGUST 19, 2017

One thing that tripped me up early on in my career was the difference between performance and scalability. Scalability is being able to handle large amounts of users/data/traffic. Performance is about speed. At first I thought they were exactly the same. Let’s get definitions out of the way.

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DZone

MARCH 31, 2020

The true power of cloud computing lies in the way it can be optimized for maximum performance and efficiency. While it wasn’t always possible to run an efficient environment while maximizing performance with on-premise servers and data centers, cloud clusters are particularly flexible in this respect.

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DZone

JUNE 12, 2019

A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. An architect should focus on designing a scalable software architecture from the early phase of the product life cycle.

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