Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). For example, let’s say you have an idea for a new social network and decide to use Kubernetes as your container management platform.

Storage 193

Storage Database Network Metrics 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. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

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. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

It’s really scary knowing that such corruptions are happening in the memory of our computers and servers – that is before they even reach the network and storage portions of the stack. That data must then be safely transported over a network to the storage system where it is written to disk.

Storage 145

Storage Systems Transportation Network 145

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

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. Cloud storage monitoring.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

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

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. It uses a hash table to manage these pairs, divided into fixed-size buckets with linked lists for key-value storage. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 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. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 88

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 88

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

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. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

Storage 104

Storage Network Open Source Latency 104

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., In databases you probably know it as stored procedures. Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " SoCC’19. "Narrowing

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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

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

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On October 24th, the Percona Kubernetes Squad held the first Ask-me-Anything (AMA) session to address inquiries regarding the utilization of Kubernetes for database deployment. Q1: When is it appropriate to use Kubernetes for databases, and when is it not recommended? ” This talk covers this topic exactly.

Open Source 82

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 82

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. Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

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). AWS Storage Gateway. Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Available Now. Coming Soon.

AWS 272

AWS Cloud IoT Database 272

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. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. HyperScale Database. DTU Pricing Tier.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

Open Source 212

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 212

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Data Placement. System Coordination. Read/Write latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Enter graph databases.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

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

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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. for unplanned downtime, resource saturation, network intrusion. Dynatrace news. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years.

Infrastructure 206

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 206

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 225

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 225

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Cloud 115

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 115

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice. In this case, you can be sure that Main really failed, and it is not a network split situation.

Storage 117

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 117

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices. Get started today with Percona Backup for MongoDB. What is a full backup?

Storage 67

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 67