Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

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Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 210

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! In other words, false positives are bad but false negatives are the absolute worst!

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Despite initial investment costs, DBMS presents long-term savings and improved efficiency through automated processes, efficient query optimizations, and scalability, contributing to enhanced decision-making and end-user productivity.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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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

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Limited data availability constrains value creation. Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Additionally, efforts such as lowered data retention times, two-tiered storage systems, shaky index management, sampled data, and data pipelines reduce the overall amount of stored data.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. This surge aligns with the 62% of companies reporting substantial data growth, underscoring the escalating need for scalable and agile database solutions.

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Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 23, 2021

Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. We had to rethink everything previously known about building scalable systems. and we needed the low cost with high reliability that wasn’t readily available in storage solutions.

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Ecommerce Retail Storage Scalability 216

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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. What is FaaS?

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. Can you expand?

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems.

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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?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

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. Ingest and process with Grail.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To achieve optimal tracking results it is important to choose wisely among available tools like Prometheus or Grafana, which offer deeper insights into understanding your Redis® instances for better performance optimization. Providing them with clear insights into their system’s performance overall.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Buckets are similar to folders, a physical storage location. Debug-level logs, which also generate high volumes and have a shorter lifespan or value period than other logs, could similarly benefit from dedicated storage. Suppose a single Grail environment is central storage for pre-production and production systems.

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Artificial Intelligence Analytics Metrics Storage 258

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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. It provides a good read on the availability and latency ranges under different production conditions.

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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. Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Not available. Not available.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Database as a Service (DBaaS) providers are an alternative option that acts almost like going on a cruise ship: quick provisioning is facilitated by them, while scalability, support services, and flexibility benefit from pay-as-you-go models. They also come with some drawbacks—high costs and resources needed for successful management.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. But what is the purpose behind this model?

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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2023

Dynatrace’s collaboration with Google addresses these needs by providing simple, scalable, and innovative data acquisition for comprehensive analysis and troubleshooting. The CSI pod is mounted to application pods using an overlay file system. These CSI pods provide a unique way of solving a handful of infrastructure problems.

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Monitoring provides a clearer, more consistent picture of DevOps system performance and overall health. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. DevOps monitoring also helps teams meet their SLAs for system uptime.

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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. Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. What is an open source database?

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, its modern architecture delivers cost-effective storage and compute. As a result, teams benefit from low-cost cloud storage that provides access to all data and doesn’t require data rehydration. Further, the EdgeConnect capability allows secure connections to on-premises systems.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

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. PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine.

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