Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. A cloud migration strategy, however, provides technical optimization that’s also firmly rooted in the business value chain.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

While AWS EBS snapshots were mentioned the most, the likes of persistent disk snapshots on GCP, Azure-managed disk snapshots, or local storage, as well as k8s snapshot capabilities, were also playing a crucial part in the backup strategies. We want to ensure that our Community feels that this design we delivered fits their use cases.

Availability 76

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 76

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. What is Hybrid Cloud?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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 US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. Any work we can do to improve over these dimensions generates long term benefits for AWS customers. Often customers are surprised about our strategy to help them drive their costs down. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

AWS 104

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. In pursuit of this goal, we outlined following storage optimization strategies: Use cheaper Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes instead of SSD instance stores in EC2. We needed to ensure storage cost growth was sub-linear to the amount of data being stored.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28 and later v8 versions PostgreSQL: 13.10

AWS 94

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 94

All Things Distributed

JULY 3, 2011

Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall in Akihabara. I will give a keynote on enterprise migration strategies. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 67

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 67

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

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By shifting the unit of capacity we are pricing against, customers bidding strategy will directly determine whether or not they are fulfilled. To get started using Spot or for more details visit the Amazon EC2 Spot Instance web page, the AWS developer blog , and the EC2 Release Notes. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

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

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. They also ensure that backup strategies adhere to industry and legal compliance requirements.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

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.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source 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.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

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

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

Grasping the concept of Redis sharding is essential for expanding your Redis database. This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. Redis isn’t alone in utilizing sharding strategies — it’s a common concept found throughout database technologies to distribute workload efficiently.

Scalability 130

Scalability Efficiency Java Database 130

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

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 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. What is workload in cloud computing? Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It was a fascinating read, shedding light on leveraging AWS snapshots’ capabilities to avoid initial data copy within the RDS environment. Inspired by David’s insights, I embarked on a journey to explore logical replication from a different perspective – within the realm of on-premises server databases.

Database 75

Database Traffic C++ Servers 75

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The biggest challenge was aligning on this strategy across the organization. For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database. Our goal was to design a GraphQL schema that was reflective of the domain itself, not the database model.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

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 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

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

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. It also opens up the possibility for more effective use of caching strategies, potentially enhancing load times further.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Terraform is a revolution in the way we handle infrastructure.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

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. of users and 3.9% of nonusers.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

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? Polyglot Persistence Trends : Number of Databases Used & Top Combinations.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Instead, like the other articles in the Django Highlights series (see below), it’s intended as a guide for front-end developers and designers to understand other parts of the process of creating a web application. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Part 2 : Templating Saves Lines. Definitions. Media Files.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring focuses on specific metrics and measurements; application performance management is the wider discipline of developing and managing an application performance strategy. Causes can run the gamut — from coding errors to database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues. APM’s many forms.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers written by Matthew Talebi. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers written by Nataliya Sambir. But the other thing is to be able to take operational concerns into account during your design development and implementation of any technology. Attainable DevOps. Weekly Update.

DevOps 85

DevOps Metrics Systems Design 85