Uber Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Uber Engineering’s Schemaless storage system powers some of the biggest services at Uber, such as Mezzanine. Schemaless is a scalable and highly available datastore on top of MySQL ¹ clusters.

Engineering 111

Engineering Storage Scalability Availability 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps. How can organizations use AI observability to optimize AI costs? What is explainable AI?

Performance 176

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 176

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Polymorphic Data Storage. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Teams have introduced workarounds to reduce storage costs. Additionally, efforts such as lowered data retention times, two-tiered storage systems, shaky index management, sampled data, and data pipelines reduce the overall amount of stored data. Stop worrying about log data ingest and storage — start creating value instead.

Analytics 223

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 223

Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I recommend you read our previous blog, Using ClickHouse as an Analytic Extension for MySQL , from Vadim to know more about this. In this blog post, I will show you how to replicate MySQL data in real-time to ClickHouse. I am going to use the MaterializedMySQL engine for this purpose. The blog post contains the following topics.

Engineering 85

Engineering Database Servers Analytics 85

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. Storage engine compatibility Different MySQL storage engines handle.sdi files in various ways. The exact handling can vary depending on the storage engine.

Storage 91

Storage Database Engineering Open Source 91

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. IT pros need a data and analytics platform that doesn’t require sacrifices among speed, scale, and cost. What is a data lakehouse?

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 264

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

How can we optimize for performance and scalability? Operations teams can leverage the same approach to improve analytics and insights into data storage, network devices, or even the room temperatures of specific server rooms. All Dynatrace enhancements mentioned in this blog post will be available within the next 90 days.

Analytics 245

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 245

Percona

AUGUST 9, 2023

This upgrade has vastly improved the management and storage of metadata, resulting in better reliability and scalability for various database objects. In this blog post, we will explore the intricacies of MySQL 8’s Transaction Data Dictionary, its advantages, and its real-life application using practical examples.

Database 77

Database Storage Scalability Games 77

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

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

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

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Use reduction at scale requires a cultural shift, and engineers must consider the cost as they think of memory or bandwidth as another deployment KPI. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

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. Moreover, the new ALR mechanism is more precise, predictable, and explainable—just like our Davis AI causation engine. Dynatrace news. Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace CTO. Your feedback. Your input matters.

Processing 149

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 149

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). In addition, MariaDB provides optimal scalability options, making it ideal for growing workloads. Contact us to learn more!

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

In this blog, I’ll discuss the use case for replication. require_row_format, on the other hand, can be used to ensure that tables in the InnoDB storage engine use the ROW format, which is the most secure option for replication. It does this to carry out all instructions from its upstream.

Storage 85

Storage Open Source Database Engineering 85

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. Messaging systems are typically implemented as lightweight storage represented by queues or topics. – DevOps Engineer, large healthcare company. Dynatrace news.

Analytics 176

Analytics Systems DevOps Healthcare 176

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Self-hosted Kubernetes installations or services — such as Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, or the Google Kubernetes Engine — make it possible for enterprises to select and implement best-fit functions. Along with security and developer convenience features, OpenShift and Kubernetes integration takes scalability to a further level.

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

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. 1 among non-relational/document-based systems ( DB-Engines, July 2023 ). It ranks No.

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. After changing the VARCHAR column size to 200, the following is the storage requirement. MySQL, a popular database management system, offers online operations since version 5.6,

Storage 79

Storage Database Open Source Engineering 79

Uber Engineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In 2014, Uber Engineering built Schemaless , our fault-tolerant and scalable datastore, to facilitate the rapid growth of our company. For context, we deployed more than 40 Schemaless instances and many thousands of storage nodes in 2016 alone.

Code 93

Code Storage Scalability Engineering 93

Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

MySQL 8’s solution MySQL 8 addresses the auto-increment counter loss issue in the InnoDB storage engine upon server restart. To explore, let’s insert the fifth record and assess whether it adopts ID 5 or reverts to ID 3: mysql> INSERT INTO users (username) VALUES ('user5'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00

Servers 108

Servers Storage Database Open Source 108

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The headlining feature of GCP is Google’s Compute Engine , a service for creating and running virtual machines in the Google infrastructure—a direct analog to AWS’ EC2 instances and Azure’s VMs. Scalability is a major feature of GCF. appeared first on Dynatrace blog. How Google Cloud Functions works.

Google 211

Google Cloud Serverless Azure 211

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. In this blog, we will review all of the potential MySQL backup and restore strategies, the cornerstones of any application. Encryption Backups have sensitive data, so it’s highly recommended to encrypt, especially for offsite storage.

Best Practices 77

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 77

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. Fluentd is known for its flexibility and is also highly scalable, which makes it a good choice for high-volume environments.

Strategy 171

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 171

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.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. While this provides greater scalability than on-site instrumentation, it also introduces complexity. Amazon EC2. Watch demo now!

Best Practices 200

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 200

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

This blog will explore the hurdles encountered during the upgrade process and the innovative solution that saved the day. uses the Aria engine for system tables. Since Aria is a MariaDB-only engine, a direct MariaDB 10.4 > MySQL 8 ‘in-place’ upgrade is impossible for and after 10.4.

Open Source 66

Open Source Database Storage Engineering 66

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Hopefully, this blog will explain ‘why,’ and how Microsoft’s Azure Monitor is complementary to that of Dynatrace. Organic scalability of the monitoring platform with the applications. AI engine to detect anomalies and perform root-cause analysis, enabling AIOps. Do I need more than Azure Monitor?

Azure 134

Azure Artificial Intelligence Metrics Innovation 134

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. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. The Kubernetes experience.

Virtualization 158

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 158

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. 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

Tech News Gather

JUNE 16, 2023

Welcome to the Consistent Blog, your go-to resource for valuable insights and expert guidance on building a highly profitable UberEats clone. Ensure scalability and performance optimization: As your clone app gains popularity and attracts more users, scalability and performance optimization become crucial.

Social Media 52

Social Media Tuning Strategy Media 52

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the differences between the InnoDB undo log and redo log, exploring their significance and providing code examples to illustrate their usage. InnoDB Undo Log The undo log, also known as the rollback segment, is a crucial part of the InnoDB storage engine.

Database 95

Database Tuning Storage Open Source 95

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I have been a big fan of the Amazon S3 Static Website Hosting feature since its launch and this blog happily is being served from it. However I can now rely on the excellent reliability and scalability of Amazon S3 for the redirect as well. Comments ().

Website 126

Website Traffic Storage Scalability 126

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. Robert allowed me to take a couple of screenshots from their Dynatrace environment and with that, in this blog I try to explain how Dynatrace gives them MaaSS for Developers, Operators, DevOps as well as Business. Their technology stack looks like this: Spring Boot-based Microservices.

AWS 127

AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127