Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

Best Practices 21

Best Practices Performance Systems Processing 21

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 6, 2023

Then they tried to scale it to cope with high traffic and discovered that some of the state transitions in their step functions were too frequent, and they had some overly chatty calls between AWS lambda functions and S3. His first edition in 2015 was foundational, and he updated it in 2021 with a second edition.

Serverless 145

Serverless Lambda Best Practices Traffic 145

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. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB. DigitalOcean Droplets.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. The change was obvious in the production graphs, showing a drop in write latencies: Once tested more broadly, it showed the write latencies dropped by 43%, delivering slightly better performance than on CentOS.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

Before writing a OneAgent plugin, it’s always best practice to check that the metric(s) you want to add are not already in Dynatrace. With insights from Dynatrace into network latency and utilization of your cloud resources, you can design your scaling mechanisms and save on costly CPU hours.

Java 138

Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 138

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

The fundamental principles at play include evenly distributing the workload among servers for better application performance and redirecting client requests to nearby servers to reduce latency. This includes zero-day vulnerabilities and software weaknesses that are not yet known and can be exploited without warning.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. The change was obvious in the production graphs, showing a drop in write latencies: Once tested more broadly, it showed the write latencies dropped by 43%, delivering slightly better performance than on CentOS.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

While dynamic serving provides simplicity in implementation, it imposes significant time costs due to the computational resources required to generate the pages and the latency involved in serving these pages to users at distant locations. It also reports on mobile usability, security, and best practices such as HTTPS.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. The change was obvious in the production graphs, showing a drop in write latencies: Once tested more broadly, it showed the write latencies dropped by 43%, delivering slightly better performance than on CentOS.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

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. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. These high-throughput, low-latency requirements need caching, not as a consideration, but as a best practice.

Speed 121

Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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. latency, startup, mocking, etc.) We expect these testing issues to mostly resolve as serverless gains traction and new engineering practices that make testing easier emerge.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. For high-pressure points like animation, it’s best to do nothing else where you can and the absolute minimum where you can't. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 105

Performance Cache Metrics Network 105

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. For high-pressure points like animation, it’s best to do nothing else where you can and the absolute minimum where you can't. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. For high-pressure points like animation, it’s best to do nothing else where you can and the absolute minimum where you can't. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145