All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them. We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2019

However, this approach eventually led to storage issues. To address this storage issue for older snapshots, we’ve adapted our cleanup strategy so that monthly snapshots are now removed automatically after 6 months. An error page was presented when a user tried to log in to an environment with insufficient permissions.

Storage 103

Storage Metrics Strategy Java 103

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. In this blog, we would like to present the latest updates to Conductor, address some of the frequently asked questions and thank the community for their contributions. Validations and Testing Dry runs, i.e

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Storage I/O. Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System. Networking. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Storage I/O. Here are the talks from my immediate colleagues in building F, level 2 at Netflix: - Vadim Filanovsky (perf team) co-presented Auto Scaling Made Easy: How Target Tracking Scaling Policies Hit the Bullseye. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System. Networking. tcp_tw_reuse = 1 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Instead of presenting you with a handful of random screenshots from our demo environment I reached out to Robert, a close friend of mine, who leads a development team with the current task to re-architect and re-platform their multi-tenant SaaS-based eCommerce platform. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. REDIS for caching.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

From retail recommendations to genomics based product development, from financial risk management to start-ups measuring the effect of their new products, from digital marketing to fast processing of clinical trial data, all are taken to the next level by cloud based analytics. Video is analyzed to help stores understand traffic patterns.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. ScaleGrid offers solutions that address these difficulties by simplifying administration processes in multi-cloud environments and enabling smooth integration among various cloud platforms.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

Traffic 214

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 214

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Usage reduction is a continuous process.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring. Cloud monitoring types and how they work.

Cloud 221

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 221

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. Government and Big Data. At werner.ly

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. In this session, we present our human-centric design principles that enable the autonomy our engineers enjoy. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Failover testing: If you have a high availability setup or a secondary data center, test to ensure the failover process switches over to the backup database server. This helps minimize downtime.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Edgar helps Netflix teams troubleshoot distributed systems efficiently with the help of a summarized presentation of request tracing, logs, analysis, and metadata. When a problem occurs, we put on our detective hats and start our mystery-solving process by gathering evidence. by Elizabeth Carretto Everyone loves Unsolved Mysteries.

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request.

Storage 112

Storage Network Open Source Latency 112

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally.

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Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present.

Traffic 127

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 127

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring helps you quickly verify if your application is delivering the expected end user experience by offering an outside-in view of all your applications and services, independent of real traffic. Storage and management of credentials via the Synthetic Monitoring credential vault. But wait, there’s more!

Monitoring 255

Monitoring Azure AWS Traffic 255

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.)

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language. This requires an asset storage solution. Asset Storage We refer to asset storage and management simply as asset management. The UI can then use these fields to control the presentation in the UI layer.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. Failover includes these steps: The monitoring system sends an alert that the primary server is unavailable, triggering the failover process.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Processing and generating the response. The list goes on and on.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Please note that these are presented as general best practices. Networking equipment (switches, routers, etc.)

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Testing shows that by using the Fua bit with the data, write request can reduce the I/O traffic by ~50% for a SQL Server, write-intensive workload. Any storage device that can survive a power outage. 4 Socket, TPCC.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce. This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. what is the cardinality of the data set)?

Analytics 191

Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

For example: UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs rw,noatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 0 Unix ulimit settings Most UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux and macOS, provide ways to limit and control the usage of system resources such as threads, files, and network connections on a per-process and per-user basis.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, on Android, the #2 and #3 sources of web traffic do not respect browser choice. On Android today and early iOS versions, WebViews allow embedders to observe and modify all network traffic (regardless of encryption). Users can have any browser with any engine they like, but it's unlikely to be used. How can that be?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Official Blog - World Web Technology

MAY 12, 2023

The front-end of the website is what you see and interact on the display on the screen and the backend is the logical part of the app that has components such as storage, coding, content management, etc. It gives you freedom from traditional web application development process. It is the backend where actual things happen.

Website 52

Website Development Scalability Architecture 52

Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 5, 2023

Energy data at the entire machine or raw cloud instance level needs to be apportioned to virtual machines or cloud instances which run an operating system, and to pods, containers and processes running applications and background activities that consume CPU, memory and I/O resources.

Energy 52

Energy Metrics Cloud Operating System 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than buying racks and racks of servers that need to handle the maximum potential traffic and be idle most of the time, it seems that serverless’ method of paying by compute is proving to be beneficial to the bottom lines of organizations. When asked about the benefits of adopting serverless, there were some stand-out issues.

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Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88