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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. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

A data lakehouse features the flexibility and cost-efficiency of a data lake with the contextual and high-speed querying capabilities of a data warehouse. Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. What is a data lakehouse? How does a data lakehouse work?

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Managing risk for financial services: The secret to visibility and control during times of volatility

Dynatrace

Deploy risk-based estimates and models with confidence, accuracy, transparency, and speed. This enables banks to manage risk with the speed and precision mandated by their markets. Risk in banking is broad and interconnected. If system failures occur, teams must resolve them quickly and resolutely. Automated issue resolution.

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IT automation central to navigating cloud complexity and data explosion

Dynatrace

But IT teams need to embrace IT automation and new data storage models to benefit from modern clouds. To combat the cloud management inefficiencies that result, IT pros need technologies that enable them to gain insight into the complexity of these cloud architectures and to make sense of the volumes of data they generate.

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The history of Grail: Why you need a data lakehouse

Dynatrace

These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). Thus, Grail was born.

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Mayastor: Lightning Fast Storage for Kubernetes

Percona Community

In this blog post we’re going to see those technologies at work to give us awesome block storage performance with flexibility and simple operations. It’s a new generation in storage software, designed for super high speed low latency NVMe devices. Why is SPDK exciting?

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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