Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. 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.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

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

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

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.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces.

Analytics 195

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 195

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

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

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 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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

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 76

Database Traffic C++ Servers 76

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. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

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 This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.Â

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 147

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

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. The schema registry also integrates with our CI/CD systems like Spinnaker to automatically setup cloud networking for DGSs.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Netflix operates in multiple AWS regions. in Atlas , Netflix’s in-memory dimensional time series database. We ran each combination of replay file and buffering strategy 10 times each inside containers with 2 Gbps network and 16 CPUs, recording the total time to process all the operations in the replay files.

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

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

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. AutomationCode-based systems also shine in automation.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database. Imagine a professional networking site with a database of users. Definitions.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

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. Other than these principles, there are some other design considerations to support and enable: Multi-tenancy with database and table prioritization.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Document store.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

In this role, I am leading a global team that works closely with our strategic partners such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Pivotal, Red Hat and others. Database & functional migration. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What’s in your stack?”.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Starting with the purpose for the system, we can walk through all the steps that provide value to its users, see what might go wrong with each step, come up with an observability and mitigation strategy, and find ways to run chaos experiments to validate our design controls. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Planning, planning, planning.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and eventually it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). 150ms RTT, 1.5

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Starting with the purpose for the system, we can walk through all the steps that provide value to its users, see what might go wrong with each step, come up with an observability and mitigation strategy, and find ways to run chaos experiments to validate our design controls. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Where we place boundaries impacts our ability to innovation, the quality of our UX, and execution of our strategy. It’s asking an awful lot. When I worked for a large cloud company, one team were building advertising products that allowed businesses to run ad campaigns on social media networks and feed that data back into a CRM system.

Systems 40

Systems Social Media Design Media 40

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

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. But they may back off on AI development.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108