Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

Storage 92

Storage Engineering Database Hardware 92

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Availability solutions – Advanced backups, including physical backups and point-in-time recovery that are not available to MongoDB Community Edition.

Availability 104

Availability Servers Database Open Source 104

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 345

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 345

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. The unstoppable rise of open source databases. What’s causing this massive shift? Check out the PostgreSQL vs. Oracle Infographic.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

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. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

Availability 83

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 83

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

DZone

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Pandora launches new HTML5 site for TVs and gaming consoles, available now on PS3 and Xbox 360 ( The Next Web). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Hacker News). Java EE 7 is Final.

Java 244

Java Best Practices Google Analytics 244

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.”

Open Source 209

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 209

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

Storage 94

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 94

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Containers enable developers to package microservices or applications with the libraries, configuration files, and dependencies needed to run on any infrastructure, regardless of the target system environment. This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 188

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35 , including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features.

Availability 97

Availability Metrics Monitoring Open Source 97

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. This scenario is a thing of the past.

Artificial Intelligence 270

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 270

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder. Yes, we are committed to supporting the open-source community.

Open Source 252

Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics. I developed many batch and real-time data pipelines using open source technologies for AOL Advertising and eBay. What is your favorite project?

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

Database 92

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 92

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit for services and applications that run in containers. Prometheus components include client libraries for application code instrumentation, special-purpose exporters for popular services, and the optional Prometheus server for orchestrating service discovery and data storage.

Technology 213

Technology Technology Monitoring AWS 213

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 180

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 180

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Two styles of message queuing.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Two styles of message queuing.

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 201

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project.

Open Source 83

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 83

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. was made available on January 23, 2023. was made available on January 23, 2023. It’s time for the release roundup!

Open Source 88

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 88

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

5 among all database management systems and No. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). Taking a deeper dive, MongoDB is a system for analyzing data because documents are easily shared across multiple nodes and because of its indexing, query-on-demand, and real-time aggregation capabilities.

Open Source 80

Open Source Database Scalability Software 80

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

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The vulnerability was first reported to the Apache Foundation (an open-source project) on November 24 by security researcher Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company, after an attack was documented on December 9 and affected servers of the game Minecraft. When was the vulnerability in the Log4j 2 library discovered?

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Internet Internet Games Java 261

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. It is advisable to have a dedicated production MySQL Server that can independently claim the system resources as needed.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage. Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL. Download Percona XtraBackup

Storage 96

Storage Open Source AWS Servers 96

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

We want adopters of our technology to be able to deploy their critical open source databases and applications across any public or private cloud environment. All of the database automation for running a highly available, resilient, and secure database is built into the operator to simplify the operation and management of your clusters.

Cloud 83

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 83

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems. Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Automate as much as possible.

Best Practices 190

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 190

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads.

AWS 101

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 101

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory. Setting oom_score_adj to -800.

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. Dynatrace fully embraces OpenTelemetry.

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Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. Storage engine compatibility Different MySQL storage engines handle.sdi files in various ways. Storage engine compatibility Different MySQL storage engines handle.sdi files in various ways.

Storage 98

Storage Database Engineering Open Source 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. The Kubernetes experience.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161