Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria that a service must meet before it is advanced to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. Now we’re happy to announce the release of Cloud Automation quality gates. What are quality gates?

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Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 242

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. Frequently Asked Questions What are the disadvantages of DBaaS?

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures.

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Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affordable, flexible and easy to use cloud platform for developers to work with. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. DigitalOcean.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances.

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Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Application modernization centers on bringing monolithic, on-premises applications — which IT teams usually update and maintain with waterfall development processes — into cloud architecture and release patterns. These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment.

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Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 229

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

DigitalOcean is a cost-effective cloud provider that caters to, and is widely adopted by the developer community. Along with many popular cloud providers, DigitalOcean also provides a Managed Databases service. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup. Benchmark Tool. PostgreSQL Version. Scaling Factor. Query Mode. Number of Clients.

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Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software automation is the practice of creating software applications to reduce or eliminate human intervention in repetitive, time-consuming IT tasks and cloud operations. It provides valuable insight into complex public, private, and hybrid cloud IT structures, systems, and frameworks. Cloud automation.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 190

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

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Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 234

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It also helps organizations keep pace with the rapid cadence of software releases and the intricacies of multi-cloud environments. This results in achieving a flawless OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks, ensuring 100% accuracy with no false positives.

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Best Practices Benchmarking Speed Infrastructure 211

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

While this may work for monolithic applications or environments with infrequent releases, this simply does not scale for today’s modern cloud-native environments that are based on microservices-based architectures where new releases occur more frequently from days to hours to minutes. Automating release validation. Want to learn more?

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DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 211

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report , we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives.

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Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. Organizations should demand an all-in-one approach to monitoring cloud platforms and supporting applications and infrastructure.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 203

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, teams should perform continuous audits to evaluate data against benchmarks and implement best practices for ensuring data quality. Modern, cloud-native architectures have many moving parts, and identifying them all is a daunting task with human effort alone.

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Government Analytics Benchmarking Storage 202

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Enforcing benchmarks in real time.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 185

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 101

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The increasing complexity of cloud-native technologies has placed unprecedented pressure on DevOps teams. The report describes the various benchmarks that constitute each stage in depth. Automation is a crucial aspect of achieving DevOps excellence. Organizations with underdeveloped automation can face detrimental consequences.

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DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation 207

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. In fact, a recent survey found that many cloud applications are vulnerable to outages , despite growing confidence in cloud platforms and services.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses. Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. Data transfer technology.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this post, we break down ScyllaDB cloud vs. on-premise deployments, most popular cloud providers, SQL and NoSQL databases used with ScyllaDB, most time-consuming management tasks, and why you should use ScyllaDB vs. Cassandra. ScyllaDB Cloud vs. ScyllaDB On-Premises. Most Popular Cloud Providers for ScyllaDB.

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Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With the state of cloud computing constantly evolving, open source software (OSS) offers a collaborative and efficient approach that is fast replacing proprietary-only code bases. Most functions in cloud-native applications are things all applications must also do. Why use open source software? Drives a culture of innovation.

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Open Source Software Software Development 193

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Here’s a brief primer on APM and how it has changed for cloud-native environments, and some tips on what to look for in modern APM solutions. In recent years, APM has expanded to encompass cloud-native environments and distributed applications composed of microservices. But what differentiates one APM offering from another?

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Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 234

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. This is how most Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPPs) operate as well as popular image scanners such as Anchore and Clair. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 252

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

Site reliability engineering (SRE) continues to gain popularity as organizations embrace hybrid cloud strategies and IT automation at scale. This trend will increase as organizations continue using third-party libraries for cloud-native application development. Dynatrace news.

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DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. 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.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2021

Cloud Migration Best Practices / Bridging the gap between legacy & cloud. Learn what it takes to define and execute a migration strategy for a low-risk, smooth transition to the cloud. This session will guide beginners through the user experience journey within Dynatrace.

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Virtualization Benchmarking Best Practices Cloud 185

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and OpenShift, help organizations accelerate innovation and drive agility. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach. Dynatrace news. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 235

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This is because AWS Lambda provides a relatively low barrier for entry into cloud computing without the need to pursue a whole lift-and-shift operation right away. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Extending existing enterprise stacks.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 185

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This is because AWS Lambda provides a relatively low barrier for entry into cloud computing without the need to pursue a whole lift-and-shift operation right away. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Extending existing enterprise stacks.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 224

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unfortunately, the performance in benchmarks is almost the same as for 4KB pages. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information. Setup I recommend starting with 2MB huge pages because it’s trivial to set up.

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C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 102