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What is infrastructure monitoring and why is it mission-critical in the new normal?

Dynatrace

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

Load balancing and replication: Scaling the database system horizontally by distributing the workload across multiple servers using techniques like connection pooling, read replicas, or implementing a primary-replica replication setup. Our blog article, Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc , can guide you through the benchmarking process.

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. An improperly configured server may not allocate sufficient resources or be optimized for the specific workload. It is a good idea to run sysbench or another benchmark tool to determine your storage throughput.

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10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. Watch webinar now!

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RPC vs. Messaging – which is faster?

Particular Software

Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. But to be fair, we also have to process the messages on the server before we can consider the messaging case to be complete.