Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v13 versions, 14.7

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 92

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. The speed of backup also depends on allocated IOPS and type of storage since lots of read/writes would be happening during this process. Best practice tip : Use PBM to time huge backup sets.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

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. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Under the hood, we store logical oplogs along with physical backups into the object storage. The trick is to use the oplogOnly flag, which would instruct Percona Backup for MongoDB to upload oplogs to the object storage without waiting for the logical backup. There, you can either integrate with AWS KMS or use AES-256 key.

Best Practices 88

Best Practices Storage AWS Big Data 88

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is even more cumbersome when working on bare metal, as it is more difficult to add space when using this kind of solution with respect to the cloud. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

AWS 88

AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 88

All Things Distributed

MARCH 15, 2017

Amazon today announced a new program that will make it free for tens of thousands of Alexa developers to build and host most Alexa skills using Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, if developers exceed the AWS Free Tier limits, they may incur AWS usage fees each month. Apply Now > Build and Host Alexa Skills with AWS.

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AWS Development Games Lambda 116

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

These policies encompass a wide range of concerns, including security best practices, data protection measures, industry regulations, privacy laws, accessibility requirements, and internal organizational policies. Restricting access to specific AWS services based on defined IAM roles.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Storage I/O. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. File System. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Storage I/O. Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix. File System. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

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. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. As businesses grow and demand fluctuates, infrastructure needs to adapt.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I got Paul Strong involved in the EGA before I left Sun, the two competing bodies eventually merged, and Grid and Web Services evolved into Cloud Computing.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. How are your users adopting and responding to your service?

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better. Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup.

AWS 75

AWS Storage Cloud Best Practices 75

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money.

Database 77

Database Servers Storage Strategy 77

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Given that Amazon’s AWS Lambda functions are only five years old this November, anyone with more than three years of experience is a very early adopter. Serverless presents a conceptually simpler path to deploying software for those in development roles with no need to manage servers and storage. Custom tooling” ranked No.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. As we said at the time, DynamoDB was a result of 15 years of learning in the area of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. We are major users of DynamoDB. " Canon INC.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

Performance 105

Performance Cache Metrics Network 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Also check DNS Performance comparison and Cloud Peformance Comparison. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Brotli is widely supported, and many CDNs support it ( Akamai , AWS , KeyCDN , Fastly , Cloudlare , CDN77 ) and you can enable Brotli even on CDNs that don’t support it yet (with a service worker). Plus, it’s even supported on Fastly’s edge cloud.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145