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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Simpler UI Testing with CasperJS ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Hacker News).

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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding With Best Practices & When To Enable It

Percona

The sharding architecture consists of several components: Shard Servers : Shard servers are individual nodes within the sharded cluster. Together, these components form the sharding architecture, which allows MongoDB to scale horizontally and efficiently manage vast amounts of data.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use. Cloud storage monitoring. Teams can keep track of storage resources and processes that are provisioned to virtual machines, services, databases, and applications. Best practices to consider.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. When planning your database HA architecture, the size of your company is a great place to start to assess your needs.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

Depending on what is needed, here are some common database backup types, strategies, and considerations: Full backup vs. incremental backup: Best suited for smaller databases or those that don’t incur a lot of changes, a full backup includes a complete restore point. It’s suitable for databases with moderate change rates.