Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen).

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 69

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Virtual Memory. Andrew Spyker (Titus) co-presented Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Virtual Memory. Andrew Spyker (Titus) co-presented Elastic Load Balancing Deep Dive and Best Practices.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. Treating these different processes as code will ensure that best practices are followed. with more being added continually.

Code 110

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 110

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Over the years, more and more articles have been published about clocksource in virtual machines, and it's now a well-known issue.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 80