The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

While our engineering teams have and continue to build solutions to lighten this cognitive load (better guardrails, improved tooling, …), data and its derived products are critical elements to understanding, optimizing and abstracting our infrastructure. In the Reliability space, our data teams focus on two main approaches.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. Database migration is almost always time-consuming, tedious, and full of potential pitfalls. Database migration is complex Let’s start here. What is the best path to migrate?

Database 87

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 87

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Open source migration can be a game-changer, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Heck, typing “database migration plan” into Google and reading this blog could constitute planning. Inadequate training Transitioning to open source requires a team that understands your target database solution.

Open Source 92

Open Source Database Best Practices Strategy 92

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. It also includes various built-in software components for database management, security, and application development. It then collects performance data using existing database services running on your system.

Monitoring 237

Monitoring Infrastructure Metrics Analytics 237

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. Kubernetes provides many benefits, such as automation and scalability, but it also introduces new complexities when it comes to managing databases. In version 1.x,

Availability 98

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 98

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases.

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

January 24, 2019 – ScaleGrid , a rising leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for Redis Clusters on their fully managed Redis hosting plans. With the introduction of Redis Clusters at ScaleGrid, Redis users can now easily create sharded clusters with a few simple clicks when setting up their databases.

Availability 113

Availability Open Source AWS DevOps 113

Percona

JULY 31, 2023

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice. In the first case, all the heuristics are kept at the application layer, and the database has little or no effect on the data quality.

Database 79

Database Open Source Servers Code 79

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use! x are all safe. MariaDB users must upgrade to 10.5.4

Servers 100

Servers Database Cache C++ 100

Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

For MySQL, both releases are made by the same company (Oracle), follow the same version numbering, and the Enterprise version is a superset of what is available in Community. It is worth noting both MySQL and MariaDB have Community and Enterprise versions. operates now). Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Database 83

Database Servers Innovation Open Source 83

Percona

JANUARY 25, 2023

Database administrators often need to identify inactive databases and users to save resources. This can be done using various methods to determine which databases and users are frequently accessed. We can save disk space and other resources by purging inactive databases and users.

Database 100

Database C++ Servers Open Source 100

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Hosting either on-premises or with third-party data center providers and deciding whether management services should be conducted internally or outsourced.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 345

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 345

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. This spans from the end user’s experience down to the performance of underlying database queries, and from the application code down to the hardware resources it utilizes. What is Microsoft Hyper-V?

Efficiency 216

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 216

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

The massive volumes of log data over months, sometimes years, of a breach have made this a complicated and expensive problem to solve. Teams must evolve to continuously create reliable, automated responses based on precise data-driven insights. and “was any sensitive data stolen?”

Analytics 220

Analytics Metrics Database Storage 220

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. 28 implements a new data sink that uses the first in, first out (FIF0) method. Take a look.

Open Source 77

Open Source Scalability Database Monitoring 77

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Growing awareness and increasing regulatory scrutiny have propelled carbon emissions data into the public consciousness. Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Level 1: Data centers This is the starting point for most organizations. A PUE of 1.0

Cloud 211

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 211

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34 was released on September 26, 2023.

Open Source 83

Open Source Scalability Database Servers 83

Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

We want to improve our ability to replicate your data and limit replication to row-based events securely, wherein we do not have control over the source(s). The replica must impose data access limitations on the replicated stream because changes may get past the security barrier separating the source and replica in some configurations.

Storage 91

Storage Open Source Database Engineering 91

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. With an on-prem data center, the organization bears the burden of securing the physical infrastructure and its digital assets.

Cloud 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2023

26 , the Audit Log Filter is available in a technical preview mode. You can filter events based on a user account, audit event class name, audit event subclass name, and audit event fields (database name, table name, operation status, and so on). Create rules to replace sensitive data in SQL statements written to the log.

Open Source 108

Open Source Database Servers Storage 108

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

Latency 52

Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use!

Database 99

Database Performance C++ Engineering 99

Percona

JULY 13, 2023

With the rise of globalization, the need to store and process multilingual data has become essential. MySQL, one of the most popular relational database management systems, recognizes this need and has introduced utf8mb4 in its 8.0 The first two rows contain simple text data, while the third row contains an emoji.

Database 95

Database Games Open Source Engineering 95

Percona

MARCH 3, 2023

A few days ago, a client asked us the following question: “ Hey Percona, I have a question and a problem simultaneously: I want to delete rows from a table from a specific date back because the data is not necessary. Check the database’s topology, whether one or more servers were replicating, if it was a Percona XtraDB Cluster , etc.

Database 103

Database Testing Servers Open Source 103

Percona

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is now available on Debian 12 (bookworm). is deprecated.

Open Source 81

Open Source Scalability Database Software 81

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Release highlights include: Docker images are now available for x86_64 architectures.

Open Source 83

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 83

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

Monitoring 103

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 103

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. Simply put, infrastructure monitoring is the oxygen to your infrastructure, collecting all the data for a complete picture of availability, performance, and resource efficiency.

Infrastructure 203

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 203

Percona

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of your server in a production environment. Similarly, Percona XtraBackup 8.0

C++ 97

C++ Open Source Servers Database 97

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source 83

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 83

Software Architecture

AUGUST 24, 2017

Source: [link] Cassandra has tunable consistency which means that not only on the database level, you can tune the immediate and eventual consistency of your data per query/operation by setting the read CL (consistency level) and write CL. W= number of nodes your data is written to. But, you are NOT getting a guarantee.

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Tuning Software Architecture Database C++ 100