Percona

APRIL 26, 2024

Cloud-native databases are becoming the norm, and containerized databases are a common trend (see the report from Dynatrace and Figure 1). Kubernetes—the de facto standard for platform engineers—and operators simplify database deployment and management. But what are the performance implications of running databases in Kubernetes?

Database 73

Database Performance Cloud Servers 73

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Latency 62

Latency Performance Tuning Design 62

Percona

APRIL 26, 2024

The tech preview version of the pg_tde extension for PostgreSQL 16 was released on March 28th, with many improvements compared to our previous MVP release. In addition to lots of bug fixes, the new release supports multi-tenancy and key rotation with a simplified configuration mechanism.

Software 56

Software Software 56

InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.

Design 60

Design Systems Performance Scalability 60