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?

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

Cache 204

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 204

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. Once the authentication succeeds: PgBouncer checks for a cached connection, with the same username+database combination. pgBouncer Architecture | Source.

Cache 246

Cache Architecture Database Servers 246

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The various presenters in this session aligned platform engineering use cases with the software development lifecycle. Each use case provides its own unique value and impact, and whoever sees value in the use cases can adopt it—whether they are a platform engineer, DevOps engineer, performance engineer, or a site reliability engineer (SRE).

Engineering 182

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 182

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

New Architectures (this post). Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. Auto-scaling is often presented as a panacea for performance problems, but, even if it is properly implemented (which is, of course, better to be tested), it just assigns a price tag for performance.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

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. What architecture will be optimal for enabling that business vision? How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

Architecture 98

Architecture Design Software Architecture Strategy 98

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 343

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 343

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.

Architecture 41

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2022

That’s why hybrid cloud architecture is a key tool in the arsenal for organizations striving to grow, modernize, and innovate. In a presentation at the Perform 2022 conference, Huetter uses the IBM Z platform to expand on the benefits of using an observability platform to manage hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 228

Infrastructure Cloud Java Azure 228

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

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

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. predict and prevent security breaches and outages. Website monitoring.

Cloud 222

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

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. Even differences as simple as data types can present a challenge. MYSQL: OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Open Source 121

Open Source Database Architecture Design 121

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Everything else I’ll cover in the series requires knowing some of the architecture of the transaction log, so that’s what I’m going to discuss this time. You can’t specify how many VLFs are created by SQL Server when the database is first created or the log file automatically grows, but you can influence it.

Architecture 53

Architecture Servers Virtualization Database 53

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The choice could be to switch to another document database or maybe use a relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL that supports JSON data types. But that will require a big rewrite of your application to support the new database. FerretDB just might be the answer to your problem or close enough to satisfy your requirements.

Open Source 113

Open Source Software Software Hardware 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Key Takeaways Cloud security monitoring is a comprehensive approach involving both manual and automated processes to oversee servers, applications, platforms, and websites, using tools that are customized to fit unique cloud architectures. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

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.

Scalability 283

Scalability Latency Media Architecture 283

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. Research has found that 99% of organizations have embraced a multicloud architecture. The sheer number of permutations can break traditional databases.

DevOps 183

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 183

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Everyone who goes to architecture school learns his work. It must be beautiful, like Venus, inspiring love.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

Grasping the concept of Redis sharding is essential for expanding your Redis database. This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. Redis isn’t alone in utilizing sharding strategies — it’s a common concept found throughout database technologies to distribute workload efficiently.

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

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.

Cache 198

Cache Architecture Database Government 198

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles. This enables businesses to fully utilize all the benefits provided by such arrangements.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

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 did a few talks on this subject early in the year, and linked this to the sustainability advantages of serverless architectures.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

They are particularly important in distributed systems, such as microservices architectures. A platform approach, on the other hand, presents a more effective option for understanding observability as a whole. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases.

Artificial Intelligence 178

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 178

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With its widespread use in modern application architectures, understanding the ins and outs of Redis® monitoring is essential for any tech professional. Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But on their own, logs present just another data silo as IT professionals attempt to troubleshoot and remediate problems. Further, these resources support countless Kubernetes clusters and Java-based architectures. They can call on dozens of databases and deliver gigabytes of data across myriad devices.

Analytics 221

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Metrics 221

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

While this is great information the PurePath left some questions open: Dynatrace provides automatic distributed tracing and lets you navigate through the PurePath to identify architecture or performance issues. Diagnosing architectural issues in (micro)service architectures.

Performance 152

Performance Best Practices Architecture Monitoring 152

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A mistake on the source, for example, a DROP DATABASE or an UPDATE without a WHERE clause will be replicated nearly instantly to all replica servers. We can never avoid human error in database infrastructure operations. We can never avoid human error in database infrastructure operations. How can we avoid that kind of mistake?

Servers 63

Servers Database Architecture Infrastructure 63

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Explore an implementation of this architecture with PVH, the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. AWS speaker: T.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2022

OpenTelemetry demo application architecture diagram. Both methods ingest data, but by using the Dynatrace OneAgent, users can automatically discover additional insights about their infrastructure, applications, processes, services and databases. Moreover, you can use it as a framework for further customization.

Open Source 172

Open Source Metrics Tuning Technology 172

InfoQ

MAY 13, 2022

In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

Cloud 67

Cloud Architecture Scalability Network 67

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As a result, it becomes increasingly important to protect the confidentiality of information to prevent data leaks and facilitate easy access to relevant data sources and tools for the related teams without having to sift through unrelated databases or environmental data. to monitor and diagnose. +50

Metrics 107

Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 107