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.

AWS 75

AWS Database Storage Scalability 75

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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.

Speed 84

Speed Storage AWS Azure 84

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

AWS 114

AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

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 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. AWS serverless offerings. Reliability.

Serverless 283

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 283

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

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. Logs can also be used to represent event data.

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

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

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). In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM)

Availability 80

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 80

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

The software that powers todayâ??s Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al.,

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

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. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

AWS 102

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 102

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Opening the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Today Amazon Web Services has taken another important step in serving customers worldwide: the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region is now launched. The new Singapore Region offers customers in APAC lower-latency access to AWS services. Comments ().

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61

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

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. The answer to these challenges is a new software concept called the “ real-time digital twin.”

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s not enough to just pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. The answer to these challenges is a new software concept called the “ real-time digital twin.”

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

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

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark. The answer to these challenges is a new software concept called the “ real-time digital twin.”

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. For example, you can choose the public cloud storage type – gp3, io2, etc, or set file system.

Storage 109

Storage Strategy Cloud Azure 109

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments. If you want to learn more about Route 53 visit [link] and read the blog post at the AWS Developer weblog. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. This allows for a very fine-grain control of software and data configuration. While the instance is stopped it does not accrue any usage hours and customers are only charged for the storage associated with the Amazon EBS volume. Contact Info.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

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 124

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 124

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]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Unlike other competitors in the market, the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform is purpose-built for dynamic enterprise cloud environments such as AWS, with full automation and AI at the core. Achieve full observability of all AWS services. The AWS services listed below are adding upon the services already released.

AWS 271

AWS Cloud IoT Database 271

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Under the hood, we store logical oplogs along with physical backups into the object storage. The trick is to use the oplogOnly flag, which would instruct Percona Backup for MongoDB to upload oplogs to the object storage without waiting for the logical backup. There, you can either integrate with AWS KMS or use AES-256 key.

Best Practices 95

Best Practices Storage AWS Big Data 95

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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

Open Source 89

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 89

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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.

Database 84

Database Servers Storage Strategy 84

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation. With the launch of AWS CloudFormation today another important step has been taken in making it easier for customers to deploy applications to the cloud. Creating and managing these environments was a pain that AWS CloudFormation set out to relieve. Comments ().

AWS 121

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system.

Lambda 122

Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

Percona

APRIL 10, 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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

Open Source 82

Open Source Servers AWS Database 82