Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. The settings might not be optimal.

AWS 116

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 116

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. VA’s journey into the cloud.

Cloud 182

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 182

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 ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Serverless computing is a cloud-based, on-demand execution model where customers consume resources solely based on their application usage. The Serverless Process.

Serverless 245

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 245

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 115

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 115

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 347

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 347

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

Dynatrace is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, so it’s easy to integrate Dynatrace with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. In addition to automatic full-stack monitoring, Dynatrace provides comprehensive support for a wide range of AWS services. Dynatrace news.

Design 143

Design AWS Education Innovation 143

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. My talks on Failing Over Without Falling Over are still very relevant, but AWS did finally release a key new service that implements key parts of the architecture: AWS Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. DynamoDB Streams.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions. As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. The key question we keep getting from our customers is: How can Dynatrace help me reduce risk, move faster and achieve a better business outcome for my cloud migration project?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” And there are tools for archiving and indexing prompts for reuse, vector databases for retrieving documents that an AI can use to answer a question, and much more. We’ll say more about this later.)

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. The bigger the database, the bigger the damage from a leak. This can leave your database instances exposed and vulnerable.

Database 77

Database Servers Storage Strategy 77

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? hands freeÃ?

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Comments (). In their own words: â??With s what they had to say: â??DynamoDB

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Comments ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Performance

JANUARY 22, 2020

By their very definition, table-valued parameters are strongly-typed to a user-defined table type that must exist within the database where the call is being made. Where this really can make a difference is in cloud implementations where you are paying for more than just compute and storage resources.

Servers 55

Servers Azure Hardware Network 55

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Migration to cloud. Cloud Platform. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. The third team is the infrastructure platform team, who deal with datacenter and cloud based resources. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53