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

Dynatrace

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems

The Morning Paper

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

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

Scalegrid

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. The unstoppable rise of open source databases. What’s causing this massive shift? Check out the PostgreSQL vs. Oracle Infographic.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. Why HammerDB was developed.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. This allows us to know our operating environment and its capability. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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.”