Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Although we can tweak the number of tickets available in WiredTiger, there is a virtual limit – which means that changing the available tickets might generate processor overload instead of increasing performance.

Best Practices 71

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

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. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. schedtool –B PID.

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. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. schedtool –B PID.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. there cannot be high availability.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83