Percona

AUGUST 9, 2023

MySQL 8 brought a significant architectural transformation by replacing the traditional MyISAM-based system tables with the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD), a more efficient and reliable approach. The primary goal of the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD) is to enhance the overall performance, stability, and scalability of MySQL databases.

Database 77

Database Storage Scalability Games 77

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability.

Serverless 269

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 269

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In today’s data-driven landscape, businesses are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data volume. The data generated by applications to support operational teams has reached overwhelming proportions. This data overload also prevents customer-centric pricing models as users consider cost-effective technology platforms.

Retail 226

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture 226

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Security: Data is stored securely in the Dynatrace cloud (powered by Azure). Dynatrace captures all your data, including host and application metrics, basic-network metrics, real-user metrics, mobile metrics, cloud-infrastructure metrics, log metrics, and much more.

Azure 315

Azure Availability Hardware Innovation 315

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value. Limited data availability constrains value creation. Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes.

Analytics 223

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 223

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Across the cloud operations lifecycle, especially in organizations operating at enterprise scale, the sheer volume of cloud-native services and dynamic architectures generate a massive amount of data. Generative AI brings data quality risks But generative AI also brings risks in terms of data quality. What is causal AI?

AWS 200

AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 200

Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

In this blog, I’ll discuss the use case for replication. We want to improve our ability to replicate your data and limit replication to row-based events securely, wherein we do not have control over the source(s). PRIVILEGE CHECKS USER is helpful in multi-source replication to carefully gather data from various sources.

Storage 85

Storage Open Source Database Engineering 85

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Log management is an organization’s rules and policies for managing and enabling the creation, transmission, analysis, storage, and other tasks related to IT systems’ and applications’ log data. In cloud-native environments, there can also be dozens of additional services and functions all generating data from user-driven events.

Systems 178

Systems Cloud Analytics DevOps 178

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Data proliferation—as well as a growing need for data analysis—has accelerated. According to recent Dynatrace data, 59% of CIOs say the increasing complexity of their technology stack could soon overload their teams without a more automated approach to IT operations. Digital transformation shows no signs of slowing down.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 264

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus.

Metrics 169

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 169

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. All this data is then consumed by Dynatrace Davis® AI for more precise answers, thereby driving AIOps for cloud-native environments.

Analytics 245

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 245

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

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

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal. It can happen on an edge API system servicing customer devices, between the edge and mid-tier services, or from mid-tiers to data stores.

Traffic 339

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 339

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A common practice among DBAs and developers is to copy table data and.frm files from the data dictionary. In the case of InnoDB tablespaces, this information is incorporated into the tablespace itself, creating a fusion of metadata and data primarily to enhance performance. In MySQL 8.0, ibd files), general tablespace files (.ibd

Storage 91

Storage Database Engineering Open Source 91

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While engaging the automatic instrumentation of the Dynatrace OneAgent makes log ingestion automatic and scalable , our customers have set up multiple other log ingestion methods. One option is to install OneAgent on that syslog server, which automatically discovers, instruments and sends the log data to the Dynatrace platform.

Strategy 171

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 171

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

JULY 13, 2023

With the rise of globalization, the need to store and process multilingual data has become essential. In this blog post, we will explore utf8mb4 and its advantages in MySQL 8.0, The first two rows contain simple text data, while the third row contains an emoji. version as a game-changer. backed by practical examples.

Database 91

Database Games Open Source Engineering 91

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 122

Storage Cloud AWS Media 122

Dynatrace

JUNE 8, 2020

Meeting the requirements of a tier-0 application demands the highest level of reliability and scalability, which Dynatrace enables through extensive self-monitoring and self-healing across the entire application stack down to the infrastructure level. Access your cluster health data in Dynatrace Managed.

Software 164

Software Software Programming Metrics 164

Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

Before getting into more details about Neon functionality, we need to introduce two important concepts Neon operates with: Tenants and Data Branches. In the context of databases, a tenant’s data can be logically separated from other tenants’ data in the same database so that each tenant can only access and manage their own data.

Serverless 123

Serverless Software Architecture Virtualization Database 123

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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.

Infrastructure 189

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 189

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. Many techniques that are described below are perfectly applicable to this model.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

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.

Best Practices 77

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 77

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Observability gives developers and system operators real-time awareness of a highly distributed system’s current state based on the data it generates. Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage.

Artificial Intelligence 169

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 169

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. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These resources generate vast amounts of data in various locations, including containers, which can be virtual and ephemeral, thus more difficult to monitor. Make full use of CloudWatch data. As part of your monitoring plan, use CloudWatch to collect monitoring data from all parts of your AWS environment so you can debug any failures.

Best Practices 200

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 200

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment. PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine.

Monitoring 96

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 96

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

The world’s most scalable, automatic distributed tracing pushes the boundary once again with enhanced Adaptive Load Management. 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. . Dynatrace news. Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace CTO.

Processing 149

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 149

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.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

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.

Monitoring 188

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.

Monitoring 188

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 188

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, we’ll examine the reasons why people would seek an alternative to MongoDB Enterprise, and we’ll identify some of the most popular NoSQL alternatives. First, some stage-setting for this blog article. DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance.

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore the process of altering VARCHAR columns online, delving into insights gained while expanding the size of such columns. To kick start our journey, let’s consider a table definition that requires the expansion of a VARCHAR column named “_varchar” to accommodate more data.

Storage 79

Storage Database Open Source Engineering 79