Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly? What is cloud-native architecture? The principles of cloud-native architecture.

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Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. They’re proven and ready-to-go.

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InfoQ

APRIL 9, 2024

The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time. Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

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Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 118

DZone

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the paradigm of zero trust architecture , Privileged Access Management (PAM) is emerging as a key component in a cybersecurity strategy, designed to control and monitor privileged access within an organization.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

Database 117

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. A future blog will continue my exploration into Citus by scaling out pgbench into other architectures.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Despite being consumed directly by machines, APIs are made to satisfy the needs of human beings, so designing them should follow a user-centered process, but often it doesn’t. It's common to find APIs that merely expose database functions, without considering what the end users will do with them.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve heard the opinion from many technical leaders that it is reasonable to expect a new hire to take upto 6 months to learn about the code, the domain, and the architecture before they become fully productive. I believe that self-documenting architecture would dramatically reduce one of the big costs in software development.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 8, 2023

AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database, a new capability supporting automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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Percona

AUGUST 9, 2023

MySQL 8 brought a significant architectural transformation by replacing the traditional MyISAM-based system tables with the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD), a more efficient and reliable approach. The primary goal of the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD) is to enhance the overall performance, stability, and scalability of MySQL databases.

Database 79

Database Storage Scalability Games 79

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. Serverless architecture: A primer. Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Retrieval-augmented generation emerges as the standard architecture for LLM-based applications Given that LLMs can generate factually incorrect or nonsensical responses, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as an industry standard for building GenAI applications.

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Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2021

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. It’s also a good way to not overwhelm the database servers … usually. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Options at each level offer significant potential benefits, especially when complemented by practices that influence the design and purchase decisions made by IT leaders and individual contributors.

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Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 205

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. Preparation for PITR is crucial and involves enabling binary logging and creating a full database backup. It is important to begin with a thorough database backup to prepare for such situations.

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These days, there’s been a lot of talk in the industry about setting up one’s database system on PostgreSQL. Most times, these are Greenfield projects where the bulk of the effort is on its design and architecture. Database migration, a POC in action Objective Perform a database migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

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Open Source Database Architecture Design 123

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

A data model in Marken can be described using schema — just like how we create schemas for database tables etc. The databases we pick should be able to scale horizontally. Marken architecture Above picture represents the block diagram of the architecture for our service. So the amount of data stored can be large.

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Scalability Latency Media Architecture 283

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Such architectures bring many benefits (such as scalability and resiliency), but can also bring a lot of pain if incorrectly designed and executed.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures. Key Components of Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure A hybrid cloud architecture usually merges a public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform with private computing assets and incorporates tools to manage these combined environments.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

In fact, before we even had the word microservices in our lexicon, back when it was just good old-fashioned service-oriented architecture, we were talking about data: how to access it, where it lives, who “owns” it. All too often, the software wasn’t designed in a way that made it easy to ship. And data was at the heart of the problem.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

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