InfoQ

JUNE 26, 2023

Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Azure 83

Azure Serverless Performance Storage 83

Dynatrace

APRIL 24, 2024

To help our customers confidently navigate the complexities of the cloud and innovate faster and more securely, the Dynatrace platform must be delivered reliably. Service Level Agreements (SLA) bridge your business objectives with our commitment to excellence.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. Customer data is persisted in S3 (or the equivalent services when running on Azure or GCP), and compute is handled in EC2 instances.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing. As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially.

Azure 145

Azure Traffic Virtualization Performance 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 346

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If you use AWS cloud services to build and run your applications, you may be familiar with the AWS Well-Architected framework. This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud.

AWS 251

AWS Efficiency Azure Latency 251

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 190

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” ” In recent years, cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, and Google began offering Kubernetes as part of their managed services. What is OpenShift?

Open Source 211

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 211

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity. Fetching User Feed. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database. Optimization.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

We see the growing adoption of our Percona Kubernetes Operators and the demand to migrate workloads to the cloud-native platform. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are still looking for old-fashioned ways, like storage-level snapshots (i.e., AWS EBS Snapshots).

Database 65

Database Storage Open Source AWS 65

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

DigitalOcean instance costs are also over 28% less expensive than AWS, and over 26% less than Azure, providing significant savings for companies who are struggling in this global climate.

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Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Multicloud harnesses diverse cloud services to boost flexibility, while hybrid cloud merges public and private clouds for enhanced control. What is Multi-Cloud? But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer.

Virtualization 162

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Adrian Cockcroft

APRIL 7, 2023

Sunset in Morocco — photo taken by Adrian We want to reduce carbon emissions of our compute and storage workloads, and one way of doing this is to choose a time and place where the “grid mix” of energy consumed is less carbon intensive. You can think of the spot market as the buffer capacity for a cloud provider.

Energy 52

Energy AWS Azure Cloud 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ability to define custom endpoints when using Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for backups Improved PBM Docker image to allow making physical backups with the shared mongodb data volume Updated Golang libraries that include fixes for the security vulnerability CVE-2023-39325.

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Open Source Azure Servers Programming 79

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. 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. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But every organization I talked with, that is engaged in a k8s project, told me that in order for them to truly leverage k8s as a cloud native platform you need ALL of the following “ Monitoring as a Self-Service Capabilities ” (MaaSS) which aren’t covered by any of the open source or platform offerings: K8s cluster and pod health monitoring.

AWS 128

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 128

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

In addition to that: Run up to four pgBackrest repositories Bootstrap the cluster from the existing backup through Custom Resource Azure Blob Storage support Operations Deploying complex topologies in Kubernetes is not possible without affinity and anti-affinity rules. In version 1.x,

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Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 93

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application can easily and quickly record both telemetry and analytics results for each store. In addition, the cloud service hosts aggregate analytics that can continuously complete every few seconds, avoiding the need to wait for offline results from a data lake.

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Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application can easily and quickly record both telemetry and analytics results for each store. In addition, the cloud service hosts aggregate analytics that can continuously complete every few seconds, avoiding the need to wait for offline results from a data lake.

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Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

In addition, the platform provides fast, in-memory data storage so that the application easily can keep track of both telemetry and analytics results for each store. In addition, the cloud service hosts aggregate analytics that continuously run every few seconds, avoiding the need to wait for offline results from a data lake.

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Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S,

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

What is workload in cloud computing? 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. The environments, which were previously isolated, are now working seamlessly under central control.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Make sure to read our extensive article on DBaaS Pros and Cons !

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

In general terms, in-memory computing refers to the related concepts of (a) storing fast-changing data in primary memory instead of in secondary storage and (b) employing scalable computing techniques to distribute a workload across a cluster of servers.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

In general terms, in-memory computing refers to the related concepts of (a) storing fast-changing data in primary memory instead of in secondary storage and (b) employing scalable computing techniques to distribute a workload across a cluster of servers.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

For instance, terraform-compliance can enforce that all AWS EC2 instances have specific tags defined or that all Google Cloud resources have encryption enabled. Sentinel policies are written to enforce rules such as: Requiring encryption for all Amazon S3 buckets and Azure Blob Storage containers.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 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 103

Storage Strategy Cloud Azure 103

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In recent years, function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms such as Google Cloud Functions (GCF) have gained popularity as an easy way to run code in a highly available, fault-tolerant serverless environment. What is Google Cloud Functions? Google Cloud Functions is a serverless compute service for creating and launching microservices.

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Google Cloud Serverless Azure 226

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Cloud-based solutions typically aren’t a viable option or enterprises that have strict security or privacy policies that require their data to be maintained on-premise. To give you a helping hand in such scenarios, we decided to facilitate Managed cluster deployments for major cloud platforms. Dynatrace news. Prerequisites.

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Cloud Availability Azure Google 214

Particular Software

MAY 28, 2018

You can reap the DevOps benefits of hosting your endpoints in Docker containers and use container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes on their own or through managed services like Azure Kubernetes Service or Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes. You can even run NServiceBus on a Raspberry Pi. So are we done?

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