Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Likewise, the share of cloud-hosted clusters increased from 31% in 2021 to 45% in 2022. Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 337

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 337

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

December 26th, 2021?—?photo photo taken by Adrian Cockcroft A year ago I did a talk at re:Invent called Architecture Trends and Topics for 2021 , so I thought it was worth seeing how they played out and updating them for the coming year. I blogged a summary of my map camp talk here: Map Camp 2021?—?links primarily virtual?—?and

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 87

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 87

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87