Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Michelle Barker. 2022-10-11T15:30:00+00:00. 2022-10-11T19:03:55+00:00.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

For vertical scaling, Memcached allows augmenting existing servers with additional CPU cores and memory, thereby enhancing the capacity of the caching pool to manage higher traffic volumes and larger data loads. Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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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?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production Use Cases Real-Time APIs (backed by the Cassandra database) for asset metadata access don’t fit analytics use cases by data science or machine learning teams. Existing data got updated to be backward compatible without impacting the existing running production traffic.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing. Hopefully never.)

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Maintaining high availability Kubernetes also makes it easier for applications to scale in response to changing workloads to maintain high availability. have adopted Kubernetes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. Azure Traffic Manager. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Setting Up MySQL Replication – Step by Step: Backup Data: Before starting, create a backup of your primary database to prevent data loss during setup.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Response times, quality, and availability are critical factors that need to be assessed before pushing applications into production. It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. LoadView – Best Practices and Process.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. Bookaway site search.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

All this data is available out-of-the-box when installing a Dynatrace OneAgent on EC2 instances. The data available allows both operations and development to optimize workload execution and reduce resource consumption and therefore costs. Are they deployed across all relevant availability zones? Are they receiving traffic? #3:

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

Monitoring, on the other hand, was conducted post-release to continuously observe and measure system performance, identify bottlenecks, and ensure availability. The term "synthetic" is used because it does not rely on traffic generated by real clients and end-users. More importantly, it promotes reusability.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Harnessing DNS for traffic steering, load balancing, and intelligent response. Managed DNS, as your gateway to the internet, can provide improved resilience to ensure your applications are always available. In the modern age of site reliability, service availability must be continuous. Monitoring is critical for resiliency.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. According to Gartner , 80% of vulnerabilities are introduced via transitive dependencies. Identifying vulnerabilities is only the first step.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Performance And Availability.

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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. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. Still, in extremis , a missing features or the parade of showstopping bugs may render services impossible to deliver.

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Particular Software

JULY 18, 2022

While Kafka can deal with high traffic volumes, the right partition strategy is a key factor and will have a major impact on the scalability and elasticity of the whole system. A message queue or message broker is a highly-optimized database for processing messages. What are message queues? But that’s where the similarities end.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Database & functional migration. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s an example from Google developers of opening a database, adding an object store, and adding an item to this store. Code My UI has some excellent code snippets available that you can use to create a skeleton screen for your PWA. Suppose you want to define a custom caching strategy. Skeleton screen examples on Code My UI.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. With Terraform's scripted infrastructure, businesses can ensure their content is always available, swiftly rerouting traffic when necessary.‍Additionally,

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Now, for the uninitiated, BSL is a “source-available” but not traditionally regarded as open-source. AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud strategy which compels US federal agencies to consider Cloud Computing first as the target for their IT operations: To harness the benefits of cloud computing, we have instituted a Cloud First policy. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. With AWSâ??s

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Starting with the purpose for the system, we can walk through all the steps that provide value to its users, see what might go wrong with each step, come up with an observability and mitigation strategy, and find ways to run chaos experiments to validate our design controls. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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