Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Dynatrace Managed is intrinsically highly available as it stores three copies of all events, user sessions, and metrics across its cluster nodes. Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Dynatrace news. Minimized cross-data center network traffic.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. APM provides real-time visibility into the status and performance of applications. Cloud-server monitoring. Unified monitoring.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. The biggest drawbacks are that a full backup can be time-consuming, and they require a significant amount of storage space. There are numerous options available, each with its advantages and disadvantages.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Contact me through any channels (we do have our Jira open to the Community, my email is available in the footnote, and I am present on LinkedIn).

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. Three distinct modes are available within MySQL when setting up your binary logs’ format.

Database 162

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Hardware - servers/storage hardware/software faults such as disk failure, disk full, other hardware failures, servers running out of allocated resources, server software behaving abnormally, intra DC network connectivity issues, etc. Monitor the servers on various parameters and build redundancy.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

You get all the multicore Anna performance you want, but you don’t pay for what you don’t need. Just to throw out some numbers, we measured Anna providing 355x the performance of DynamoDB for the dollar. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Maintaining optimal application performance is crucial for businesses, and fast databases are vital in achieving this goal. For an effective approach to database performance, it’s crucial to have a comprehensive overview of all databases, including server-side DBs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. As data volumes rapidly increase, streamlined data storage is a top priority.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. High Availability Deployment.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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SQL Performance

JULY 19, 2022

An example of this is updating a fixed-width column in a single row—it will do the following: Perform the update, which generates one log record. You can read a bit more about rollbacks in my article A Complete Introduction to SQL Server Transactions on the SentryOne blog, and I’ll cover them in depth in the next article.

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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. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) supports all types of compression and enterprise-grade features for free.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Applications and services are often slowed down by under-performing DNS communications or misconfigured DNS servers, which can result in frustrated customers uninstalling your application. Identify under-performing DNS servers. Slower response times can be a sign of a stressed DNS server or network communication issues.

Traffic 264

Traffic Network Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 264

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. The configuration file directs the container orchestration tool on how to retrieve container images, how to create a network between containers, and where to store log data or mount storage volumes.

Infrastructure 191

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 191

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 206

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 206

SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In this article, we will study in detail about the how SQL Server Index Fill factor works. Index Fill factor SQL Server Index Fill Factor is a percentage value to be filled data page with data in SQL Server. This option is available in index properties to manage data storage in the data pages. It […].

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. The Dynatrace platform also enables teams to monitor logs generated by applications, servers, and infrastructure components.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website. We help you configure your MySQL deployment to optimize your performance based on the size of your databases. High Availability. Advantages of Using ScaleGrid MySQL Hosting for Your WordPress.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Lighthouse is a free and open-source tool for assessing your website’s performance, accessibility, progressive web app metrics, SEO, and more. If you don’t use Chrome or Chromium-based browsers, like Microsoft Edge or Brave, you can run Lighthouse through its web interface but it only works with publicly available web pages.

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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. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. The primary goal of ITOps is to provide a high-performing, consistent IT environment. Performance. What does IT operations do?

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Repository means the location/path on the server or the cloud where the actual copy of the backup will reside. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server. One can configure both repositories in different storage.

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