Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. 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.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

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 ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. Such solutions also incorporate features like disaster recovery and built-in safeguards that ensure data integrity across diverse operating systems.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

It is available for the major OS and cloud platforms (for example, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AWS, Azure, and more) and only requires the deployment of a single service to monitor its environment. We’d like to get deeper insight into the host, the underlying operating system, and any third-party services used by our application.

Metrics 176

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Expect the unexpected.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144