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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. For organizations running their own on-premises infrastructure, these costs can be prohibitive. With so many variables in modern application delivery, organizations need an always-on infrastructure to deliver continuous system availability, even under peak loads.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. Thereby streamlining their database infrastructure without any major complications or stress accompanying doing the same effectively resulting in fewer worries when setting out sail onboard!

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

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10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

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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High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance: Is FT’s 00.001% Edge in Uptime Worth the Headache?

Percona

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. Oracle infrastructure does not offer strong compatibility with open source RDBMS. Single Database Edition Costs. $0. Clustering / Replication. $0.