Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

Storage 87

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 87

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Reliability.

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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. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” via direct plug-ins, and is available on multi-cloud platform services. Additionally, Conductor supports render management systems?—?including

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

The same data, in the form of pages inside the Wiredtiger cache, are also marked dirty. At every checkpoint interval (Default 60 seconds), MongoDB flushes the modified pages that are marked as dirty in the cache to their respective data files (both collection-*.wt This happens at every journalCommitIntervalMs. wt and index-*.wt).

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Hardware C++ Storage Cache 85

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It was initially designed to mitigate the limitations of file management systems, including slow operations, inadequate security, and substantial data redundancy. It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. Initializing a DD engine and the cache adds complexity and other server dependencies. Old design (until Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27): CREATE TABLE test.t1(a ibd > t1.sdi

Cache 84

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 84

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. We store all OperationIDs which are in STARTED state in a distributed cache (EVCache) for fast access during searches.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. VictoriaMetrics maintains an in-memory cache for mapping active time series into internal series IDs. Virtual Memory utilization was averaging 48 GB of RAM.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Conversely, if users encounter functional issues or poor UI design that frustrate common actions, replays provide clear evidence. Streamlined asset caching: Asset caching is critical for creating accurate replays. Tools that feature client-side compression can help reduce total data transfer volumes and storage footprints.

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Mobile Website Analytics Cache 251

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. These issues often arise from suboptimal query design, missing or ineffective indexes, or dealing with large datasets. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

When one of those meetings occurs after a carb-heavy lunch, it’s easy for your mind to drift away…back to those university lectures about entity design. One cart to rule them all As the meeting continues, the design for the shopping cart begins to take shape. We all love building greenfield projects. Those are…not so fun.

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Systems Cache Strategy Database 98

Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

Below are some of the upgrade options available to upgrade to PG11 or above. We are all aware that PostgreSQL 10 has reached end of support , and there is a need to upgrade to the latest version or any application-compatible PG version. Running this script will delete the old cluster's data files: /delete_old_cluster.sh

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C++ Cache Database Storage 99

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality “tail of the log caching” because our documentation and prior history has referred to the tail of the log as the portion of the hardened log that has not been backed up. Block storage is what you think of today as disk access.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Media Storage 40

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. The design space. For cost calculations, the costs are a combination of compute costs, storage costs, data scan costs, and software license costs. Key findings. Serverless o?erings

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The TPC designed benchmarks for transaction processing (OLTP) and analytics (OLAP) and anyone can run these benchmarks, have them audited by the TPC and published on the official benchmark rankings.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

Instead of the table-based structure of relational databases, MongoDB stores data in documents and collections, a design for handling large amounts of unstructured data and for real-time web applications. For starters, MongoDB Community lacks the advanced security features available in MongoDB Enterprise. It ranks No.

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Open Source Database Scalability Software 74

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. First, you’ll need to install the libraries boto3 and django-storages.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser. Cached content with IndexedDB. Cache first, then network. Service Workers.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 124

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Nx is an open-source build framework that helps you architect, test, and build at any scale — integrating seamlessly with modern technologies and libraries, while providing a robust command-line interface (CLI), caching, and dependency management. Nx uses distributed graph-based task execution and computation caching to speed up tasks.

Cache 110

Cache Servers Code Storage 110

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

More specifically, we’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform. Example 1: Storage. Secure Storage On Mobile. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different.

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Storage Mobile Website Java 93

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. Microsoft currently has eight main types of virtual machines designed for different types of workloads. GHz, 128MB of L3 cache, 128 PCIe 4.0

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Under the covers, it’s a sophisticated distributed system built on the tenets of cloud-native systems: Disaggregated (remote) storage, with read or write operations performed via RPCs, and immutable data (append only files). Shared compute tier designed to scale horizontally with many small tasks rather than a small number of large tasks.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. But this “look” is now available in browsers.

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Hence, the node would still be available for other operations. Cons of logical backups As it reads all data, it can be slow and will require disk reads too for databases that are larger than the RAM available for the WT cache—the WT cache pressure increases, which slows down the performance.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

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