Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Specifically, they provide asynchronous communications within microservices architectures and high-throughput distributed systems.

Open Source 343

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 343

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The Greenplum Architecture.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. They also need a way to track all the services running on their distributed architectures, from multicloud environments to the edge. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash.

Infrastructure 183

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 183

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks. APIs are forever.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In this article, I describe major architectural decisions we made and techniques we used. Taking into account the previous considerations, performance requirements were set as 1000 faceted navigation requests/second per typical hardware blade.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100