Percona

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the cloud era, however, developers and operation engineers started fully embracing automation tools making their job significantly easier. Today along with their team, we will see how pvc-autoresizer can automate storage scaling for MongoDB clusters on Kubernetes. kubectl annotate pvc --all resize.topolvm.io/storage_limit="100Gi"

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Storage Blockchain AWS Cloud 106

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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As an example, cloud-based post-production editing and collaboration pipelines demand a complex set of functionalities, including the generation and hosting of high quality proxy content. It is worth pointing out that cloud processing is always subject to variable network conditions.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

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

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 116

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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 94

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Earlier this year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in Montreal, Quebec. The AWS Cloud now operates in 40 Availability Zones within 15 geographic regions around the world, with seven more Availability Zones and three more regions coming online in China, France, and the U.K.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 155

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions.

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Media Storage Processing Cache 214

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. How do I choose which one to use?

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. Engineers often choose best-of-breed services from multiple sources to create a single application.

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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

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.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. With Amazon Web Services, the main sources from which to ingest logs—Simple Storage Service, or S3, and CloudWatch —come with an additional cost.

Traffic 221

Traffic AWS Network Cloud 221

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

In order for your WordPress website to be able to access, store and retrieve the data in your MySQL database, it needs to be hosted online through a cloud computing service. Host MySQL on AWS , or MySQL on Azure with configurable instance sizes through the top two cloud providers in the world. High Availability. Replication.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

In this blog post, you will learn: how to leverage FDE on Kubernetes with Percona Operator for PostgreSQL how to start using encrypted storage for already running cluster Prepare In most public clouds, block storage is not encrypted by default. The configuration of the storage class depends on your storage plugin.

Storage 118

Storage AWS Cloud Database 118

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Dynatrace news.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 218

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. Polymorphic Data Storage. Greenplum Advantages. Major Use Cases. The Greenplum Architecture.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

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Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

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

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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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

All Things Distributed

JUNE 26, 2016

In June 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in India. Examples of continuous sensing are found in the managed cloud platform built by Rachio on AWS IoT to enable the secure interaction of its connected devices with cloud applications/other devices.

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AWS Cloud Healthcare Blockchain 90

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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The second focused on the OTel community, with more technical talks by representatives from companies like AWS, Elastic, and more. A recurring theme was Site Reliability Engineering. Dynatrace news.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. 3: Ingest AWS Fargate logs with Fluent Bit. Let’s take this example of AWS Fargate. Ingest AWS Fargate logs with Fluent Bit.

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Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

But there are other related components and processes (for example, cloud provider infrastructure) that can cause problems in applications running on Kubernetes. Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. OneAgent and its Operator .

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Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 246

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

As an engineer, I can work anywhere with a standard laptop as long as I have an IDE and access to Stack Overflow. One of our first partners for the Netflix Workstations is NetFX , a cloud-based VFX platform that enables vendors, artists, and creators worldwide to collaborate on Netflix VFX content.

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Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

mainly because of mundane reasons related to software engineering. They know that feature engineering is critical for many models, so they want to stay in control of model inputs and feature engineering logic. Metaflow is a cloud-native framework. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 232

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Instead, it seems PostgreSQL Developers are of the opinion that encryption is a storage-level problem and is better solved on the filesystem or block device level. It does not require encryption capabilities on the storage level to provide data security. But first, where does the need for encryption really come from?

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Database Storage Government Open Source 123

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

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

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. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

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Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177