Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

With Dynatrace being able to handle thousands of connected agents, services, containers, servers, and individual user tracking, synthetic monitoring measurements and ingesting external data monitoring becomes a breeze . I’ll go through architectural concepts and examples, split into four separate posts: Part I: Autonomous Dynatrace roll-out.

Virtualization 175

Virtualization Monitoring Servers Architecture 175

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

Suppose that your organization has developed an enterprise-level desktop application using C# language, which has a three-tier architecture based on.NET framework. The three-tier application should have client, server, and database layer, and each part of it needs to work well across the various platforms. Conclusion.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

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

Apica

JANUARY 18, 2023

That’s an apt description for a lot of IT architectures today. Visibility Challenges in Today’s Architecture. You may have thousands of spreadsheets moving data between databases that are virtually invisible to the “latest” monitoring technology.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Network Architecture Traffic 52

High Scalability

MAY 18, 2021

Join your peers for this virtual experience on April 27 from 9am - 3:30pm PDT. SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Register now! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

High Scalability

APRIL 7, 2021

Join your peers for this virtual experience on April 27 from 9am - 3:30pm PDT. SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Register now! Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Many organizations are taking a microservices approach to IT architecture. However, in some cases, an organization may be better suited to another architecture approach. Therefore, it’s critical to weigh the advantages of microservices against its potential issues, other architecture approaches, and your unique business needs.

Architecture 192

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 192

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal. Basic server metrics. For applications hosted on the developer’s own servers, these APMs can measure the performance of CPUs, memory, data drives, and more. Usage performance.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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.”

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I suggested the radical modular breakdown of applications in a 2002 article , saying that: "the application , once the central fixture of computer use, would dissolve into a soup of servers, application fragments, and user interfaces." Microservice creation falls into a few distinct stages. The design stage. The deployment stage. Conclusion.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Cheap storage and on-demand compute in the cloud coupled with the emergence of new big data frameworks and tools are forcing us to rethink the whole ETL and data warehousing architecture. In classic Extract, transform, and load (ETL) model, we store entities in their corresponding application databases i.e. as rows in the relational tables.

Big Data 40

Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Flock is Microsoft’s reference architecture built to explore these ideas. Treating models as first-class data types in a DBMS allows database transactions to be used for model updates. So by analogy to stored procedures, would we call models stored in the database stored models ? Data management.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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.

Architecture 97

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 97

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. Cloud-server monitoring.

Cloud 217

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 217

Particular Software

JANUARY 5, 2021

The chances of all this communication happening effectively (or at all) are small enough that it’s virtually impossible the people on this team can all understand everything going on in a large system. As an added bonus, developing with this architectural style guides us toward making our upgrades backwards compatible in the first place.

Systems 59

Systems Availability Architecture Design 59

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. The transaction log contains virtual log files, which contain log blocks, which store the actual log records. Virtual Log Files.

Architecture 53

Architecture Servers Virtualization Database 53

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 241

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 241

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.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

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 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However if you have downloaded the source code and are looking to add features or make modifications such as adding new databases you may be wondering once you have the source code where to start. However HammerDB will not be able to connect to a database yet and the librarycheck command included with the CLI gives an indication why.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

In this blog post, I provide an in-depth introduction to MySQL Replication, answering what it is, how it works , its benefits and challenges, as well as reviewing some of the MySQL replication concepts that are part of the MySQL environment (and Percona Server for MySQL specifically). Set the server-id to a unique value.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our previous posts in this series, we spoke at length about using PgBouncer and Pgpool-II , the connection pool architecture and pros and cons of leveraging one for your PostgreSQL deployment. PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. PgBouncer provides a virtual database that reports various useful statistics.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. The growth of Azure cloud computing. How Azure Functions works.

Azure 136

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 136

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 212

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 212

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. Moving to a multithreaded architecture will require extensive rewrites. The PostgreSQL Architecture | Source.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

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. Another benefit is cost savings associated with server and data center setup and maintenance.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Also, in the case of multi-Primary, the writes will be distributed by transaction. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 137

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. HyperScale Database. Hyperscale databases are provisioned using vCores. DTU Pricing Tier.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

From a cloud adoption standpoint, Smartscape helps to do the following: Adjust service architecture or infrastructure to improve application performance. Overprovisioned servers lead to CPU and memory waste, creating inefficient usage and increasing costs. Migrate to the same architecture in a different location. Repurchase.

Strategy 191

Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Metrics 191

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. Too much data requested from a database.

Azure 181

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 181

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52