The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Netflix software infrastructure is a large distributed ecosystem that consists of specialized functional tiers that are operated on the AWS and Netflix owned services. After several iterations of the architecture and some tuning, the solution has proven to be able to scale.

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Here’s a quick overview of what you can achieve now that the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform has been extended to ingest third-party metrics. This functionality is most useful to application owners who need to integrate actionable performance and business metrics into the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform.

Open Source 257

Open Source Metrics Analytics Tuning 257

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Please stay tuned! To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus.

Metrics 182

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 182

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. What’s coming next We are working on improvements available previously only to the MongoDB Enterprise users that will impact scalability and availability of especially large datasets. Stay tuned for more news about MongoDB offerings.

Availability 97

Availability Servers Database Open Source 97

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week. Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 230

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations. Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2020

Many use cases in your software development, delivery, and operations depend on the real-time data that your Dynatrace monitoring environment collects. Drive developer experience through consistency and scalability. Therefore, only the necessary data is transmitted over the wire, which also improves the scalability of the interface.

Metrics 186

Metrics Scalability Tuning Monitoring 186

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform supports you on your way to the enterprise cloud with deep insights into containerized, scalable microservices on cutting-edge technologies like Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes. Stay tuned! Transform your mainframe applications into state-of-the-art business services with Dynatrace.

Java 182

Java Government Database Programming 182

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. Storage: don’t break the bank! What’s next?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

MySQL previously released software quarterly as part of a continuous delivery system where new features were made available. is an evolution of the MySQL server and related software. This could be handy for tracking query tuning and performance auditing. This is a Quick Peek at what Oracle delivered with MySQL 8.0.34

Servers 82

Servers Open Source Tuning Cache 82

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Please refer to this tuning guide to tune the system for HammerDB: Open Source Database Tuning Guide on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Based Platform. Instead, use the default settings.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Percona for PostgreSQL is a suite of open source software, tools, and services for deploying and maintaining reliable production clusters without the overhead of the vanilla PostgreSQL configuration. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Which software is the best fit for your organization? Have you tuned your environment? Additionally, it involves the acquisition or development of specialized testing software, which often comes with its own set of training requirements. What is the best path to migrate? Should you consider a phased migration or a full cutover?

Database 81

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 81

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Acquiring shared access requires only the local partition be acquired (lightweight scalability). I recall when we were tuning the sp_reset_connection (which releases the database lock and acquires it again) command we tested rates in excess of 250,000/sec to ensure the partitioned database lock scaled: [link].

Servers 103

Servers Database Scalability Tuning 103

SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I spend a large amount of time translating software requirements into schema and queries. Every time we interact with software that displays a table, we can expect the columns to be sortable like this: Sort-By-Colunn is a great pattern when all the data can fit in the browser. The basic unit of SQL tuning is the query.

Design 92

Design Software Architecture Database Servers 92

Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Source: [link] Cassandra has tunable consistency which means that not only on the database level, you can tune the immediate and eventual consistency of your data per query/operation by setting the read CL (consistency level) and write CL. Comments and thoughts welcome.

Tuning 100

Tuning Software Architecture Database C++ 100

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open-source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use! Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

Cache 99

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 99

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Hub helps enterprises easily apply AI to all technologies and data sources and unlock automation at scale. Just like the Dynatrace Platform, the Software Intelligence Hub is built with automation at its core. Our goal is to make this process simple, scalable, and enjoyable.

Software 145

Software Software Technology Technology 145

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Data Pipeline A data pipeline is a software that ingests data from multiple sources, transforms it and finally makes it available to internal or external products. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Particular Software

JUNE 20, 2022

Like the rows of shrubs in a hedge maze, the logical partitions that divide data must be carefully planned, because that affects the scalability of the system and defines the boundaries for logical transactions. The key to a successful Cosmos DB system is its data partitioning strategy. In version 1.1

Azure 52

Azure Storage Strategy Tuning 52

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Stay tuned for more details on this, as well as more details on the internals of the new SKU Platform in one of our upcoming blog posts. The SKU Platform supports this via lightweight configuration changes to rules that do not require a full deployment. Conclusion This work was a large cross-functional effort.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

In this article, we explain why you should pay attention to when building a scalable application. What Is Application Scalability? Application scalability is the potential of an application to grow in time, being able to efficiently handle more and more requests per minute (RPM).

Scalability 145

Scalability Efficiency Hardware Software 145

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

At the same time, open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, increasing the risk of application vulnerabilities. An ideal RASP technology does not need training or fine-tuning to learn what bad application behavior looks like. Not scalable in cloud-native environments.

Tuning 227

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 227

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based Additional benefits of implementing Grail with the Dynatrace software intelligence platform and DQL include the following: Simple log ingestion.

Analytics 192

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 192

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

Today's LISA attracts attendees working on all sizes of production systems, and its attendees include sysadmins, systems engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers, software engineers, IT managers, security engineers, network administrators, researchers, students, and more.

DevOps 43

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 43

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2021

Using the standard DevOps graphic, good application security should span the complete software development lifecycle. Snyk also reports that open-source software is a common entry point for vulnerabilities. Modern applications, on average, comprise 70% of open-source software, the rest being custom code.

Open Source 183

Open Source Entertainment Tuning Internet 183

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. While building Amazon SageMaker and applying it for large-scale machine learning problems, we realized that scalability is one of the key aspects that we need to focus on. Factorization Machines.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration. Limited toolset and features Another challenge that organizations may face when considering open source is the perception that community software versions have a limited set of features.

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90