Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Recently, 53 Dynatracers convened in a Zoom room for 5 action-packed hours to take on our first AWS GameDay challenge, an event we participated in to help our developers accelerate their AWS certification path. What is the value of AWS training and certification?

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AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 209

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? 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. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

Public cloud spending is slowing down. Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This is businesses’ response to tough and uncertain macroeconomic conditions, where organizations scrutinize their public cloud spending to optimize and adjust. EBS gp2 storage is $0.10

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Cloud Storage AWS Database 134

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

What does strong enterprise cloud security entail, and how can you achieve it? With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure is more critical than ever. As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy. 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.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Previously, deploying and maintaining a database usually meant many burdensome chores and repetitive tasks to ensure proper functioning. In the cloud era, however, developers and operation engineers started fully embracing automation tools making their job significantly easier. kubectl annotate pvc --all resize.topolvm.io/storage_limit="100Gi"

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Storage Blockchain AWS Cloud 113

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

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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.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

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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.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

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Google Cloud Serverless Azure 221

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.

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 123

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

As Ibrar Ahmed noted in his blog post on Transparent Database Encryption (TDE). PostgreSQL is a surprising outlier when it comes to offering Transparent Database Encryption. If database files are copied or otherwise exposed in their raw form, exposure does not happen. Does PostgreSQL Need TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?

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Database Storage Government Open Source 128

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet. MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. AWS EBS Snapshots). Both your storage and Container Storage Interface (CSI) must support snapshots. Restoration is done.

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Database Storage Open Source AWS 69

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. Most Popular Cloud Providers for PostgreSQL Hosting.

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Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

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Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 110

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

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.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 343

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

TDE is a database encryption technique that encrypts data at the column or table level, as opposed to full-disk encryption (FDE), which encrypts the entire database. To enable the encryption of the storage in Kubernetes, you need to modify the StorageClass resource. apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1 apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1

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Storage AWS Cloud Database 123

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The Ohio Region is the fifth AWS region in the US. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. The pace of expansion at AWS is accelerating, and Ohio is our third region launch this year. Check out the Regional Products and Services page for the full list.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Analytics 127

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

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Dynatrace news. 3 End-to-end distributed trace including Azure Functions. New to Dynatrace?

Serverless 187

Serverless Azure Lambda AWS 187

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self-Service Capabilities ” (MaaSS) which aren’t covered by any of the open source or platform offerings: K8s cluster and pod health monitoring.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

When planning a database deployment, one of the most challenging factors to consider is the amount of space we need to dedicate to data on disk. 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. aws-ebs"} ,storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class=false

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AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 95

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.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. What's changed ?

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 21 August 2012 12:01 AM. Comments ().

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

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. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

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Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 6, 2017

When building a mobile application, there are often scenarios where you need to storage files remotely and when I say files, I don’t mean database data. For example, maybe you want to develop an image manager or photo storage solution like what Facebook and Instagram offer?

Storage 59

Storage Cloud Open Source Mobile 59

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

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. As such, you save on storage space and data transfer in case of cloud setups. It’s time for the release roundup!

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Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 87

All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

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AWS Cloud Storage Internet 96