Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

These rapid changes — as well as the increasing volume and variety of data created — require a new approach to observability. As the entire application shares the same computing environment, it collects all logs in the same location, and developers can gain insight from a single storage area. Read eBook now!

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Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 216

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Dynatrace just makes this easy—it comes out-of-the-box, no silos of data, no DIY stitching together tools, no wasted time, and no wasted resources. . A Dynatrace Managed cluster may lack the necessary hardware to process all the additional incoming data. All this automatically and with the same hardware. Your feedback.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 149

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, we will dive deep into WiredTiger’s Logging and Checkpoint mechanism. It’s to ensure that our data is durable after each write operation and to make it persistent and consistent without compromising the performance. The same data, in the form of pages inside the Wiredtiger cache, are also marked dirty.

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Hardware C++ Storage Cache 85

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Dynatrace can help customers monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize application performance for workloads operating on AWS Outposts, in AWS Regions, and on customer-owned hardware for a truly consistent hybrid experience.”. The post Dynatrace achieves AWS Outposts Ready designation appeared first on Dynatrace blog. What is AWS Outposts?

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

These days, “Data is king,” and a lot more. Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. Any organization that uses personal and other sensitive data must have a firm, proven plan for business continuity in the event of a disaster or cyberattack.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? With the launch of the AWS Storage Gateway our customers can now integrate their on-premises IT environment with AWSâ??s

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Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Cloud-based solutions typically aren’t a viable option or enterprises that have strict security or privacy policies that require their data to be maintained on-premise. This gives you full control over your monitoring data and the ability to scale horizontally whenever you need to. Dynatrace news. Prerequisites.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Readers of this blog surely appreciate the earlier enhancements we announced related to enterprise-scale life-cycle management of OneAgents via REST API , easier configurability of OneAgent settings , and the recent improvements to OneAgent security. Easier rollout thanks to log storage best practices.

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Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 185

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Chien’s blog post points to a paper by Bashir et al.

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Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). We’ll also look at the differences, as it’s important to know what architecture(s) will help you best meet your unique requirements for maximizing data assets and achieving continuous uptime.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Red Hat recommends lower ratios of 10 and 3 for high-performance/large-memory servers. )

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. Additionally, a message queue can smooth out spiky workloads by enabling the producers and consumers to work at a consistent pace without losing data. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 188

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. Additionally, a message queue can smooth out spiky workloads by enabling the producers and consumers to work at a consistent pace without losing data. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 188

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. Without reliable backups, the consequences of data loss can be severe.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 77

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

PMM can also show you historical data that can help you identify how long a service has been in a given state. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. and later.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

This blog is in continuation of my previous blog on the basic understanding of corruption with the subject line The Ultimate Guide to Database Corruption: Part 1 – An Overview. If you have not already gone through it, I encourage you to read it to understand data corruption. Introduction. B-tree index structure.

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Database Hardware Storage Performance 116

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM. Disk space usage Monitor the disk space usage of MySQL data files, log files, and temporary files. The point we’re making here is they are critical for MySQL Performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When it comes to Citus, successfully building out and scaling a PostgreSQL cluster across multiple nodes and even across data centers can feel, at times, to be an art form because there are so many ways of building it out. The following invocation generates almost 4GB of data.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss. Data replication : Data is continually copied from one database to another to ensure that the system remains operational even if one database fails.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Log files contain much of the data that makes a system observable: for example, records of all events that occur throughout the operating system, network devices, pieces of software, or even communication between users and application systems.

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Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 198

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

16 years ago, our founder Peter Zaitsev covered this topic and some of the points described there are still valid, and we will cover more on this blog. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. Our procurement decisions were based on trace data that was pulled from a handful of fragmented monitoring solutions.

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Google Engineering Metrics Hardware 191

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

In this blog, we will answer all of these important questions and provide a general overview comparing the two database services, Aurora vs RDS. Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. How do I choose which one to use?

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This requires an asset storage solution. Asset Storage We refer to asset storage and management simply as asset management. However, it would be cost-inefficient to leverage this same hardware for lightweight and more consistent traffic patterns that an asset management service requires.

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Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.

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Systems Hardware Storage Architecture 47

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this post, I argue that software and data interoperability, a hallmark of the modern computer ecosystem, is at the core of several widespread security problems. An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. Interoperability. Individualizing digital systems.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). Each shard stores a subset of the data and operates as an independent database.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog is the result of my investigation into column-wise tables. Online analytical processing , OLAP : Online analytical processing applications enable users to analyze multidimensional data interactively from multiple perspectives which consist of three basic analytical operations: . Columnar storage. compresses data.

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Database Analytics Storage Processing 91

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. This facilitates improved data organization, query optimization, and maintenance.

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. Nobody has time for that!

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