Uber Engineering

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The platform handles billions of database transactions each day, ranging from user actions (e.g., a driver starting a trip) and system actions … The post Building Uber’s Fulfillment Platform for Planet-Scale using Google Cloud Spanner appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

Google 141

Google Cloud Engineering Database 141

High Scalability

JUNE 27, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy?

Open Source 196

Open Source Database Cloud Strategy 196

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2022

While many companies now enlist public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services, Google Public Cloud, or Microsoft Azure to achieve their business goals, a majority also use hybrid cloud infrastructure to accommodate traditional applications that can’t be easily migrated to public clouds.

Infrastructure 227

Infrastructure Cloud Java Azure 227

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

Public cloud spending is slowing down. Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This is businesses’ response to tough and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, where organizations scrutinize their public cloud spending to optimize and adjust. db.r5.4xlarge – $1.92/hour

Cloud 134

Cloud Storage AWS Database 134

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Dynatrace news. All log streams from pods in Kubernetes environments.

Cloud 259

Cloud Azure Analytics AWS 259

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. All major cloud providers support them but might require some steps to enable it. Volume snapshots in the clouds store data in increments.

Database 69

Database Storage Open Source AWS 69

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Many organizations face significant challenges in pursuing their cloud migration initiatives, which often accompany or precede AI initiatives. Worse, the costs associated with GenAI aren’t straightforward, are often multi-layered, and can be five times higher than traditional cloud services. Service reliability.

Cache 203

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 203

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” ” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. What is OpenShift?

Open Source 205

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2023

Dynatrace has announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Cloud SQL designation for Cloud SQL, Google Cloud’s fully-managed, relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.

Google 202

Google Cloud Design Programming 202

Percona

MAY 22, 2024

The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off its cloud, and everything disappeared—zip, zero, nada. Their Google Cloud experience has been labeled an “unprecedented occurrence.” You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. Everything they relied upon was gone.

Google 56

Google Cloud Testing Database 56

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., The central idea behind multiverse databases is to push the data access and privacy rules into the database itself. With multiverse databases, each user sees a consistent “parallel universe” database containing only the data that user is allowed to see.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2022

Modern observability that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. This builds on existing capabilities, which include automatic detection of runtime vulnerabilities in cloud-native applications and container workloads.

Code 180

Code Software Software Serverless 180

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

TDE is a database encryption technique that encrypts data at the column or table level, as opposed to full-disk encryption (FDE), which encrypts the entire database. For example, in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you need to create the key in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and set it in the StorageClass: apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1

Storage 123

Storage AWS Cloud Database 123

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 14, 2020

October 14, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced the launch of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosting through their fully managed DBaaS plans. To learn more about how ScaleGrid compares to GCP, check out their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ vs. GCP’s database products.

Google 246

Google Database Cloud Open Source 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? GCF is part of the Google Cloud Platform. Dynatrace news.

Google 220

Google Cloud Serverless Azure 220

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With multi-cloud or multi-regional PostgreSQL deployments, the complexity of managing disaster recovery only amplifies. With the Percona Operators, businesses can manage multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud PostgreSQL deployments with ease, ensuring that critical data is always available and secure, no matter what happens.

Storage 124

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 124

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

These four dimensions apply to any layer in the technical stack, such as front-end, databases, and external services. The rows thereafter report the health of front-end, databases, and external services. For example, saturation could be CPU time per request, queue size, used database connections, and API throttle limit utilization.

Automotive 269

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 269

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When using managed environments like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) , Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) , or Azure Kubernetes Service it’s easy to spin up a new cluster. Traces represent causally related distributed events on a distributed system, showing, for example, how a request flows from the user to the database.

Virtualization 160

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

As a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project, OTel aims to provide unified sets of vendor-agnostic libraries and APIs — mainly for collecting data and transferring it somewhere. This is common in on-premises or hybrid deployments, where time series data and tags are transmitted to the cloud. Monitoring begins here.

Open Source 218

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 218

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Background story I recently worked with a company running a large four-shard MongoDB Enterprise Server database cluster on VMs on premises that decided to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. This approach frees the deployment from cloud (and any other vendor) lock-in.

Storage 108

Storage Cloud Servers Google 108

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I doubt that we’ll see strikes at major technology companies like Google and Amazon—but we’ve already seen a union at Bandcamp. Simpler, Please Kubernetes : Everyone (well, almost everyone) is using Kubernetes to orchestrate large applications that are running in the cloud. Which will win out? Organized labor: Unions are back.

Open Source 81

Open Source Google Software Architecture Technology 81

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. The effects have hit cloud vendors who can’t possibly compete with MongoDB.

Open Source 85

Open Source Programming Database Servers 85

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? 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. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We recently learned about a major breakthrough: Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit computer. Google performed a computation in a few minutes (3 minutes, 20 seconds to be precise ) that would have taken more than 10,000 years on the most powerful computers we currently have.

Artificial Intelligence 53

Artificial Intelligence Google Software Architecture Cloud 53

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self-Service Capabilities ” (MaaSS) which aren’t covered by any of the open source or platform offerings: K8s cluster and pod health monitoring.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Lifting and shifting applications from the data center to the cloud delivers only marginal benefits. Because cloud computing breaks application functions into many microservices, porting monolithic applications to the cloud unchanged can slow them down. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? Declarative APIs.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162