Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. ScaleGrid offers a compelling alternative to hosting MySQL on AWS that offers better performance, more control, and no cloud vendor lock-in and the same price as Amazon RDS. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. Amazon RDS.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

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.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

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

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

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong.

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AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 149

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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

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 120

Database Design Cloud Storage 120

All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2019

Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA , an AWS customer. This is a technology used to build applications where multiple parties can interact through a peer-to-peer-network and record immutable transactions with no central trusted authority. A major component to the system that HARA created is blockchain.

Blockchain 134

Blockchain Database Open Source AWS 134

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. Impressive!

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Native tools, such as CloudWatch from AWS, have more extensive integrations and provide comprehensive protection for data in the cloud compared to their third-party counterparts. For example, Blumira offers a third-party solution while AWS provides its own with CloudWatch.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In these blogs, we dove deep into how the frameworks work, their setup requirements, pros and cons, and how they performed in standby server tests, primary server tests and network isolation tests (split brain scenario) to help you determine the best framework to improve the uptime for your PostgreSQL-powered applications.

Availability 187

Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

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.

Cloud 123

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 123

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? The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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 ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases.

Metrics 168

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 168

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Attack tactics describe why an attacker performs an action, for example, to get that first foothold into your network. Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. Scanned our internal network with  nmap.

Analytics 191

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 191

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Above that there’s a deployment platform such as Kubernetes or AWS Lambda. This is one of the key teams that people have been talking about recently.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 6, 2016

In November, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in South Korea. For example, Samsung Electronic Printing used AWS to deploy its Printing Apps Center in a way that didn’t require them to invest up-front capital and kept total costs quite low.

AWS 110

AWS Cloud Games Latency 110

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner. What are the benefits of a hybrid cloud?

Infrastructure 178

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 178

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This is done without downtime, but replication might introduce additional load on the primary node and the network. Regional disks Regional disks are available at Azure and Google Cloud but not yet at AWS. Right now, it is possible through creating a new storage class and applying it to the new instance group.

Storage 108

Storage Strategy Cloud Azure 108

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.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN205-R Contributing to the AWS Construct Library (repeats) Using and loving the AWS Cloud Development Kit and want to help make it better? Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN205-R Contributing to the AWS Construct Library (repeats) Using and loving the AWS Cloud Development Kit and want to help make it better? Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand. The company utilizes public cloud resources such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) for streaming purposes and maintains on-premises infrastructure for content creation and processing.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

On the “Network overview” page, `Host group` filter suggestions are now properly displayed when a management zone is selected. Fixed an issue in which database conditions in tagging and management zone configurations were evaluated incorrectly. APM-292756). APM-288329). APM-290353). APM-292404). APM-293415). APM-295166).

Operating System 227

Operating System AWS Metrics Storage 227

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The AWS Loft is all about helping you scale and grow your business by offering free AWS technical resources. The AWS Loft is all about helping you scale and grow your business by offering free AWS technical resources. Take a look at the AWS Loft homepage. What’s Happening at the AWS Loft.

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AWS Games Education Innovation 113

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Many of you know Thorsten von Eicken as the founder of Rightscale , the company that has helped numerous organizations find their way onto AWS. database replication, fault tolerance protocols) could not benefit from these advances at the network level. The lack of low-latency made that distributed systems (e.g.

Network 99

Network Latency Operating System Speed 99

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. At the same time, the common goal is to save both the network bandwidth and storage space (cost savings!) ts=$(date +%Y-%m-%d.

AWS 124

AWS Storage Database Open Source 124

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. So in case of a network failure, we’d have to retry a recent chunk rather than the whole file.

Speed 83

Speed Storage AWS Azure 83

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.

AWS 114

AWS Cloud Games Latency 114

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. It’s also a good way to determine which components of the database can be enhanced or optimized to increase your efficiency and performance.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

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.

AWS 98

AWS Cloud Storage Internet 98

All Things Distributed

JULY 16, 2012

Register for AWS re: Invent. The first annual AWS user and partner conference will be held November 27-29 at The Venetian in Las Vega. General registration opens up on July 25, 2012, however active AWS customers will get a chance to jump the line and start registering on July 20. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 85

AWS Big Data Media Storage 85

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Once you select Start analysis , Dynatrace: collects diagnostic data for the last 24 hours of the affected host or process, stores the collected diagnostic data in your Cassandra database. uploads the diagnostic data to a Dynatrace AWS S3 bucket for further analysis. Instructions for resolving the issue are included.

Monitoring 225

Monitoring AWS Database Processing 225

High Scalability

APRIL 16, 2019

Scenario 3 – Network Partition – Network Connectivity Breaks Down Between Master and Slave Nodes. This is a classical problem in any distributed system where each node thinks the other nodes are down, while in reality, only the network communication between the nodes is broken.

Availability 149

Availability Network Azure AWS 149