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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8th, 2019

High Scalability

There was already a transportation network called the US Postal Service, and Royal Mail, and Deutsche Post, all over the world, that could deliver our packages. There was already a telecommunication network, which became the backbone of the internet. There was already a payment system — it was called the credit card.

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How Netflix uses eBPF flow logs at scale for network insight

The Netflix TechBlog

The sidecar has been implemented by leveraging the highly performant eBPF along with carefully chosen transport protocols to consume less than 1% of CPU and memory on any instance in our fleet. The choice of transport protocols like GRPC, HTTPS & UDP is runtime dependent on characteristics of the instance placement.

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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

The exponential growth of data volume—including observability, security, software lifecycle, and business data—forces organizations to deal with cost increases while providing flexible, robust, and scalable ingest. During transport , data is prioritized, compressed and encrypted, ensuring data integrity and protection.

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What is container as a service? How CaaS compares to PaaS, IaaS, and FaaS

Dynatrace

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. The emergence of Docker and other container services enabled companies to transport code quickly and easily. Easy scalability. million in 2020. The classes of CaaS. Process portability.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

This was the most important question we considered when building our infrastructure because data sampling policy dictates the amount of traces that are recorded, transported, and stored. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go

Uber Engineering

Cherami is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available message queue system we developed at Uber Engineering to transport asynchronous tasks.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform. The different infrastructure setup reflects economic and technical considerations. Hyperscalers offer a competitive price point for small to medium-sized hosts. The data covers the period of January 2021 through September 2022.