High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 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.

AWS 133

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

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.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

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.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

Availability 227

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. AWS EBS Snapshots). Apart from public clouds, there are open source solutions like Ceph (rook.io But snapshots cannot provide you with the same RPO as native database mechanisms. For example, the AWS EBS snapshot is priced at $0.05/GB,

Database 65

Database Storage Open Source AWS 65

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. AWS EKS for Integration and Production. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing. Service mash insights.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. Since the beginning, we created centralized monitoring and leveraged open source products, like Nagios, to create custom controls, and Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”

Design 222

Design Innovation DevOps Open Source 222

All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2019

Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA , an AWS customer. Traditionally, rural farms have been ignored by the financial world, because they don't normally have the information required to open an account or apply for credit.

Blockchain 134

Blockchain Database Open Source AWS 134

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. Netflix made many contributions to open source projects by it’s cloud platform team.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open-source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use! resource "percona_ps" "psgr" { count = 1 instance_type = "t3.micro"

Open Source 120

Open Source AWS Scalability Servers 120

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

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Leveraging cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift in multicloud ecosystems across Amazon Web Services (AWS) , Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for faster digital transformation introduces a whole host of challenges. Native support for open-source log data frameworks, Fluentd and Logstash.

Cloud 261

Cloud Azure Analytics Open Source 261

Percona

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Recently, we released Percona Monitoring and Management 2.34 (PMM) which includes upgrades for backup and Database as a Service (DBaaS) features, and we are seeking ways to simplify PMM deployment. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Monitoring 118

Monitoring Infrastructure Open Source AWS 118

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Open source software is likewise playing a larger role in cloud computing, which brings benefits and dilemmas: bad actors have ready access to open source software and can identify new vulnerabilities to exploit. This means that attackers may have already gained access to sensitive information or compromised the system.

Cloud 192

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 192

Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

January 24, 2019 – ScaleGrid , a rising leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for Redis Clusters on their fully managed Redis hosting plans. With the introduction of Redis Clusters at ScaleGrid, Redis users can now easily create sharded clusters with a few simple clicks when setting up their databases.

Availability 113

Availability Open Source AWS DevOps 113

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

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. Install Falco in AWS EKS to gather security-relevant events from all the happenings in Unguard. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces. htaccess", "/.ssh",

Analytics 201

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 201

Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Recently, I was working with my colleagues Edwin Wang and Taras Onishchuk and found an interesting edge case involving a situation where a replica running Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , external to AWS Aurora instance version 2.10.2 (5.7-compatible), Default database: 'lab'. compatible), broke. for the UTF8MB4 character set.

Database 87

Database AWS Open Source Servers 87

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

Serverless 107

Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 107

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

If PMM’s use of CentOS 7 has prevented you from using the most popular open source monitoring and management platform, then here’s a quick-start guide that will get you going in seconds! Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Open Source 75

Open Source Metrics Monitoring Operating System 75

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

When planning a database deployment, one of the most challenging factors to consider is the amount of space we need to dedicate to data on disk. The story The case was on AWS using EKS. aws-ebs"} ,storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class=false This blog is the story of what happened, what was supposed to happen, and why.

AWS 89

AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 89

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

Last week, yet another company — HashiCorp — announced they are changing the license for the majority of their software from an Open Source License (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to a Business Source License ( BSL ). Commercial open source is going to continue being less open source.

Open Source 75

Open Source Government Software Software 75

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

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. Now why Technical Preview, you may ask?

Availability 74

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 74

DZone

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Improve AWS performance! AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments.

AWS 36

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 36

Scalegrid

MARCH 12, 2019

In Part II, we’re introducing you to an alternative open source tool, Replication Manager from 2ndQuadrant, to be closely followed by Part III where we dive into our third alternative, Patroni by Zalando. repmgr will require a dedicated database and a user with superuser privileges. Replication Manager (repmgr).

Availability 147

Availability Servers Open Source Database 147

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Traces represent causally related distributed events on a distributed system, showing, for example, how a request flows from the user to the database. For example, traces can show that requests are passed to the application server, the database gets queried, but doesn’t produce a response. Logs can also be used to represent event data.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 162

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.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Lerner, as a web-service, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix’s Open Source Software (OSS) tools. Lerner uses AWS services to store binary versions of the agents, agent configurations, and training data. Lerner uses AWS services to store binary versions of the agents, agent configurations, and training data.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 6, 2017

When building a mobile application, there are often scenarios where you need to storage files remotely and when I say files, I don’t mean database data. There are many solutions, for example you could store the files in your database as binary data, or you could store the files on the same server as your web application.

Storage 59

Storage Cloud Open Source Mobile 59