Percona

MAY 1, 2023

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. This message is normally a side effect of a storage subsystem that is not capable of keeping up with the number of writes (e.g., The settings might not be optimal.

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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.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

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

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. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

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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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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

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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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.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Defining Enterprise Cloud Security In today’s business landscape, the reliance on cloud services for data storage and processing has made enterprise cloud security a crucial factor. They seamlessly integrate with popular databases including MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, and PostgreSQL while utilizing their respective built-in security frameworks.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

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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. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB.

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

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Storage Scalability Database Technology 133

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., The central idea behind multiverse databases is to push the data access and privacy rules into the database itself. Such a design rules out an entire class of application errors, protecting private data from accidentally leaking. HotOS’19. Managing universes.

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Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. And the database is unusable until the restore is done. Our tests showed physical database restores up to 5x faster than the logical ones. The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from headaches. Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 19, 2011

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

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. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â??

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

These limits are designed to prevent ActiveGate startup process slowdown and excessive node resource usage. Configuration API for AWS and Azure supporting services. Now you can extend your observability into data acquired from an Oracle Database using SQL queries. Improved error handling for unexpected storage issues. (APM-360014).

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 79

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Several prominent South American customers have been using AWS since the early days. RAMA , a Brazilian financial services firm and AWS customer : â??The

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

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. What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

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

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

To briefly explain pgBackRest, it is an open source backup tool that takes FULL Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup for PostgreSQL databases. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan. The advanced Asia Pacific network infrastructure also makes the AWS Tokyo Region a viable low-latency option for customers from South Korea.

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AWS Cloud Games Latency 112

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

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.

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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

’ Stateless is fine until you need state, at which point the coarse-grained solutions offered by current platforms limit the kinds of application designs that work well. On the Cloudburst design teams’ wish list: A running function’s ‘hot’ data should be kept physically nearby for low-latency access.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. It is likely that the Amazon Web Services will be used by many of the participants for their compute, storage, database and other cloud resource needs.

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