Percona

JULY 20, 2023

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But let’s see what the wait events look like if the network slows down.

Network 61

Network Performance Latency Servers 61

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?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. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. To potential data loss, a rollback can also lead to inconsistencies within the database itself.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA automates repetitive cloud operations tasks and streamlines the flow of analytics into decision-making processes.

Analytics 193

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Big Data Open Source 193

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters. There are two major processes which gets executed when a user posts a photo on Instagram. System Components. Component Design. API Design.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. So, how does cloud monitoring work?

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. MongoDB drivers provide several options for Mongo clients to handle different network timeout errors that may occur during usage.

Java 130

Java Network Servers Database 130

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. In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place. This approach can determine malicious activity and block it by monitoring the flow of data within the application, all the way from the user to the database.

Monitoring 217

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 217

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

JULY 31, 2023

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice. In the first case, all the heuristics are kept at the application layer, and the database has little or no effect on the data quality.

Database 73

Database Open Source Servers Code 73

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Network hit from the ADS Profiler extension (4-minute range).

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. This spans from the end user’s experience down to the performance of underlying database queries, and from the application code down to the hardware resources it utilizes.

Efficiency 220

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 220

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. This leads us to the process page of our specific Apache instance.

Metrics 176

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The National Vulnerability Database describes the exploit here. As organizations work to find the usage of this library in their applications, they should focus on three criteria to prioritize the fix in their environment: Public Internet Exposure – Are the Java processes using these libraries directly accessible from the internet?

Java 242

Java Internet Internet Database 242

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance.

DevOps 225

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Amazon Database Migration Service. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Achieve full observability of all AWS services. Coming Soon.

AWS 272

AWS Cloud IoT Database 272

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. Examples of such weaknesses are errors in application code, misconfigured network devices, and overly permissive access controls in a database. What is vulnerability assessment?

Infrastructure 175

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System 175

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

DZone

JULY 3, 2023

Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. Traditionally, this process involved manual configuration, leading to potential inconsistencies, human errors, and time-consuming deployments.

Data Engineering 141

Data Engineering Infrastructure Code Engineering 141

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). An INSERT INTO model.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

On the first node, Patroni initializes the database, obtains the leader lock from DCS, and ensures the node is being run as the master. All of these tests were performed while the application was running and inserting data to the PostgreSQL database. Kill the PostgreSQL process. Stop the PostgreSQL process. Test Scenario.

Availability 277

Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis can be configured to optimally utilize both RDB and AOF persistence methods optimally, achieving a balance between speed and data safety while minimizing the impact on response times due to its child process handling for disk writes. Elevating Redis with ScaleGrid’s Managed DBaaS Database management can be intricate.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Backup management is the backbone of any reliable database administration strategy, and while pgBackRest simplifies this process, its default configuration often combines backup and expiry together. At times, due to slow network bandwidth, huge database sizes, or any other resource crunch, expiring backups (i.e.,

Strategy 89

Strategy Database Network Processing 89

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. Key Takeaways Understanding PostgreSQL hostname is essential for successful database connections. Understanding the PostgreSQL Hostname Hostname is a key factor for the effective management of PostgreSQL databases and providing secure access.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

However, many teams struggle with knowing which ones to use and how to incorporate them into the processes. Below, several Dynatrace customers shared their SLO management journey and discussed the resulting dashboards they rely on daily to manage their mission-critical business processes and applications. What are SLOs? Saturation.

Automotive 275

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

Traffic 168

Traffic Java Network DevOps 168

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The National Vulnerability Database describes the vulnerability here. As organizations work to find the usage of this library in their applications, they should focus on three criteria to prioritize the fix in their environment: Public Internet Exposure – Are the Java processes using these libraries directly accessible from the internet?

Java 189

Java Internet Internet Database 189

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130