Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. The value that appears between square brackets is the current value.

Database 89

Database Servers Open Source C++ 89

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. You haven’t detected that there’s a shortage of disk space on the virtualization host (or its shared storage).

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Dynatrace offers Custom Service Entry Points , which virtually breaks the monolith and provides valuable information about whether organizations should break out certain pieces of the monolith. Additionally, typical SOA models use larger relational databases. VMs require their own operating system and take up additional resources.

Architecture 200

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 200

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

One of the first things you will want to do is make sure that we can access the 3rd party driver libraries for the database that we want to use. In this example we are using SQL Server so the message shows that everything is in order and we can proceed with running tests. Selecting a database. Select a database.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

The aim is to discover the best combination of software and hardware that suits the specifications under which the system can work without issue. The three-tier application should have client, server, and database layer, and each part of it needs to work well across the various platforms. An Example. Conclusion.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker. This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023.

Database 70

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 70

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Server Agent alerts. I always check backups first when looking at a new system.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

I also started my career developing on UNIX systems with C++ and databases like Ingres. As I moved to other jobs, the PC was becoming very popular as was the Windows Operating System. When I joined Microsoft in 1993, I would embark on a 25 year journey working only on Windows laptops and Windows Server computers.

Servers 40

Servers Internet Internet Open Source 40

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Do you have a web server? Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify. Was the database running? Is the web server running? Types of Distributed Systems.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

Particular Software

JULY 18, 2017

We built a custom content management website backed by a single SQL Server database. It was a typical two-tier application with a web application and a database. Once the system was deployed, I wanted to see if everything was working properly, so I ran through a simple checklist: Is my database up?

Systems 56

Systems Monitoring Website Virtualization 56

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However if you have downloaded the source code and are looking to add features or make modifications such as adding new databases you may be wondering once you have the source code where to start. However HammerDB will not be able to connect to a database yet and the librarycheck command included with the CLI gives an indication why.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It enlists software “robots” to automate the rote, repetitive, or tedious tasks that bridge virtual gaps, or facilitate virtual transfers or exchanges, in and between common business processes. software robots are able to interpret inputs, events, and gestures, and trigger responses and communicate with other systems—just as humans do.

Processing 82

Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 82

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. Finding upper limits of your current systems for capacity planning. All resources are dedicated to this test – no shared servers.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. This testing is crucial to ensure standard usage and performance of your app on various devices, operating systems, hardware, browsers, and their different versions. You’d be thinking of a no right?

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Perhaps; we’ll take a look at that next, specifically with respect to containers, centrally managed databases, and monolithic UIs. So it just makes sense to instantiate microservices at the level of the virtual machine (VM), as distinct to that of the container. Use of a Central, Managed Database. doesn’t give us much to go on.

Database 136

Database Architecture Education Systems 136