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.

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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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 220

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In In most cases, especially with more complex queries, Grail gives you answers at five to 100 times more speed than any other database you can use right now.”

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 186

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.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Like any move, a cloud migration requires a lot of planning and preparation, but it also has the potential to transform the scope, scale, and efficiency of how you deliver value to your customers. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. Here are three.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. Thus making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking a successful implementation of their multi-cloud strategy.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Think of a user login which requires your back-end systems to validate user credentials and query required user profile information from the backend databases. Too much data requested from a database, e.g. Request all and filter in memory.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 196

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

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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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. In this scenario, it is also crucial to be efficient in resource utilization and scaling with frugality. In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in.

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Games Latency Traffic Cache 119

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Memcached is more memory efficient than Redis. Redis is more memory efficient only after you use hashes. Redis is like a database that resides in memory. Memcached is very good at handling high traffic websites. Redis can not handle heavy traffic on read/write. Redis supports almost all types of data.

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Software Architecture Traffic Efficiency Website 100

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Traffic Manager. Azure Batch. Azure DB for PostgreSQL.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 147

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. This lower server load allows servers to handle more concurrent connections and efficiently serve more users simultaneously.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This is it.

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution. This lower server load allows servers to handle more concurrent connections and efficiently serve more users simultaneously.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Today’s streaming analytics architectures are not equipped to make sense of this rapidly changing information and react to it as it arrives. Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Setting Up MySQL Replication – Step by Step: Backup Data: Before starting, create a backup of your primary database to prevent data loss during setup.

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Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

Many of our customers also run their.NET, ASP.NET,NET Core, SQL Server, CRM, SharePoint … applications on AWS and have reached out to us in the past to ask about best practices around optimizing these workloads in order to run more efficiently and more cost effective. Are they receiving traffic? #3:

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AWS Best Practices Database Traffic 124

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a web server?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management. Dynatrace Application Security uses the runtime introspection approach in combination with the Snyk vulnerability database for automatic vulnerability detection at runtime. Identifying vulnerabilities is only the first step.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 287

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Serverless Architecture. According to Ericsson’s analysis, international mobile data traffic is projected to become 4.5 Increased efficiency and productivity: Resource utilization can be raised, and we can monitor natural resources by identifying the functionality and working of each device. Serverless Architecture.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic. But there are plenty of actions we can take that reduce our environmental impact and reduce costs (or increase revenue) at the same time. On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx. With approx.

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Strategy Development Energy Website 125

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

By encapsulating tasks into separate services, parts of an application can be developed independently, deployed efficiently as containers, and scaled out automatically with new instances as traffic grows. Microservice creation falls into a few distinct stages. The design stage. A programmer can then fill in the stub.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively.

Cloud 68

Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

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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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Push based task scheduling interface Current Conductor architecture is based on polling from a worker to get tasks that it will execute.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.Â

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. We've reached an age where efficient and swift infrastructure deployment is more crucial than ever. AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

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Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled microservice architecture and with a global studio footprint, surfacing and connecting the data from microservices into a studio data catalog in real time has become more important than ever. In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253