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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding With Best Practices & When To Enable It

Percona

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). 2) Hardware limitations Disk and memory are inexpensive nowadays.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. For example: $ /opt/mongodb/4.0.6/bin/mongos

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What is cloud migration?

Dynatrace

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on.

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Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Percona

This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. The immediate (working) goal and requirements of HA architecture The more immediate (and “working” goal) of an HA architecture is to bring together a combination of extensions, tools, hardware, software, etc.,

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MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM. PMM captures the MySQL connection matrix It is important to provide appropriate max_connections and also monitor max_used_connections, max_used_connections_time to review the history of max usage to estimate the traffic.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Some are hidden, but some are in plain sight.