Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delivers a practical roadmap for using backups and binary logs to achieve accurate MySQL recovery, detailed steps for setting up your server, and tips for managing recovery and backups effectively without overwhelming you with complexity. This isn’t merely about taking a full backup or enabling binary logging.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources.

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Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 256

Percona

JUNE 29, 2023

Before Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4 PSMDB), the best practice to create an index was doing it in a rolling manner. Many folks used to create directly on Primary, resulting in the first index being created successfully on Primary and then replicated to Secondary nodes. Starting from PSMDB 4.4,

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Servers C++ Storage Best Practices 78

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Defining Enterprise Cloud Security In today’s business landscape, the reliance on cloud services for data storage and processing has made enterprise cloud security a crucial factor. Tackling the Challenges of Cloud Security Enterprises face a unique array of challenges related to cloud security.

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SQL Performance

MAY 8, 2019

This article is the second in a series about T-SQL bugs, pitfalls and best practices. Since the reference to custid in the inner query is unqualified, SQL Server has to resolve which table the column is coming from. As for best practices that can help you avoid such bugs, there are two main ones. custid FROM dbo.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Under the hood, we store logical oplogs along with physical backups into the object storage. The trick is to use the oplogOnly flag, which would instruct Percona Backup for MongoDB to upload oplogs to the object storage without waiting for the logical backup. This is where server-side encryption comes into play.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts. ITOps vs. AIOps.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Also, thinking about write process speed & storage capacity must always come first before creating indexes as well. The reason is that every time the query is executed, the full result set is built up, then the server has to walk from the beginning of the collection to the specified offset. skip(pagesize*(n-1)).limit(pagesize)

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security. It represents either an IP address or domain name of the server, where one can find those databases located. Do check your configuration accordingly, however.

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Database Servers Storage Network 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Dynatrace has implemented several specific security controls and uses industry best practices to protect Dynatrace software components like OneAgent, ActiveGate, and Dynatrace Cluster installation packages from malicious manipulation by attackers on the way to our customers’ infrastructure.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Connected_slaves provides information about replication status while Used_memory tracks utilized amount of server’s total capacity. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. 25 Bytes, or you should plan storage roughly between 500 GB – one TB for a default 30 day retention period.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Depending on what is needed, here are some common database backup types, strategies, and considerations: Full backup vs. incremental backup: Best suited for smaller databases or those that don’t incur a lot of changes, a full backup includes a complete restore point. HA setups tend to use backup servers within the same data center.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Netflix’s internal teams strive to provide leverage by investing in easy-to-use tooling that streamlines the user experience and incorporates best practices. We tried to balance codifying some hard-learned best practices that would be generally applicable while maintaining the flexibility to support various OSS environments.

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Metrics Best Practices Strategy Design 152

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. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

This includes CDNs, proxy servers, and the like. Once the 60 seconds is up, the browser will head back to the server to revalidate the file. It means ‘do no t serve a copy from cache until you’ve revalidated it with the server and the server said you can use the cached copy’. public and private. Cache-Control: no-cache.

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Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In reality, relying solely on a replica under the primary server is not sufficient for a robust disaster recovery plan. Additional read Walter’s ultimate guide of MySQL Backup and Recovery Best Practices. Q: What is one of your favourite (and common) security worst practices?

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers. When the primary server fails, a standby server takes over as the new primary.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

AI and MLOps Kubernetes has become a new web server for many production AI workloads, focusing on facilitating the development and deployment of AI applications, including model training. This marks the end of an era of chaos, paving the way for efficiency gains, quicker innovation, and standardized practices.

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices. Increased Storage Requirements : One of the disadvantages of full backups is the increased storage requirements due to the fact that they capture a complete copy of all data and files. What is an incremental backup?

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

These policies encompass a wide range of concerns, including security best practices, data protection measures, industry regulations, privacy laws, accessibility requirements, and internal organizational policies. To enforce best practices and security measures, they implement OPA as an admission controller for Kubernetes.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 23, 2020

It is a suite of tools that help you identify the impact of specific code changes on you site not just performance-wise, but in terms of SEO, accessibility, offline support, and other best practices. When the Lighthouse CI is run, it will start a server that’s able to run the tests accordingly.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our goal with this post is to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of the steps, best practices, and pros and cons to ensure a smooth — and successful — transition to an open source database environment. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

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Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. When you have multiple copies of your data on different database servers — or even better, in different data centers worldwide — replication provides a high level of fault tolerance in case of a disaster.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The $47,500 licensing costs for Oracle Enterprise Edition is only for one CPU core, that ultimately has to be multiplied with the actual number of cores on the physical server. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. . $104,310. Comparison Overview.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters. WALs in PostgreSQL are similar to transaction log files in the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re running MongoDB on DigitalOcean in production, it’s best practices to deploy using a replica set to ensure high availability and data redundancy for your clusters. Sharding is ideal for very large data sets or high throughput deployments that require more capacity that you can get with a single server.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Testsigma

OCTOBER 16, 2020

But in the case of SaaS, the SaaSproviders are data security specialists who proactively manage and protect the clients’ servers, applications, platforms, and sensitive data. Determining whether the SaaS was deployed on a safe cloud server 2. Best Practices for Controlling Cloud Access in Your Organization.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Using SQLBCP Native/Format File vs Text File and the BOM SQL Server Bulk Copy operations (BCP.exe, OpenRowset BULK, …) have specific abilities depending on the data file format specified. The BOM is only considered when performing text file operations and applies to the entire storage format of the file. bcp.exe" BCPTest.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. The key factor is that the whole data structure resides in the same location (node), facilitating the operations.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance. You want to ensure that table lookups go to the correct partition or group of partitions.

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