Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. It takes work, the right architecture, and often some outside help.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.

Benchmarking 48

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 48

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

This white paper provides a detailed view of the comparable costs of running various workloads on-premises and in the AWS Cloud and offers guidance on how to work out an apples-to-apples comparison of the TCO of running web applications in the AWS Cloud versus running them on-premises.Below are some highlights of the Web Applications white paper.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. See MySQL Replication in action To ensure customer satisfaction and meet the demands of applications requiring high availability (HA) and extensive usage, database architecture and deployment must be carefully considered.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Given the near-perfect requirement match, it does make you wonder what Google’s Zanzibar has been up to since the white paper! CEL expressions are type-safe, so they wouldn’t cause as many errors at runtime and can be stored in the datastore as a compiled protobuf.

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