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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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.

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Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog post will outline the top three questions raised during the session and provide thorough responses from our team of experts. Kubernetes performance is heavily influenced by the underlying hardware. However, Kubernetes does introduce additional layers, particularly in storage and networking.

Open Source 86

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 86

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

A Dynatrace Managed cluster may lack the necessary hardware to process all the additional incoming data. This means that you’ll receive better answers from Dynatrace Davis and capture even more high-fidelity data as your hardware will be used optimally based on the newly improved ALR algorithm. Impact on disk space.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. Another aspect of microservices is how the service itself relates to the underlying hardware. Read eBook now!

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, we will dive deep into WiredTiger’s Logging and Checkpoint mechanism. ” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

Our Premium High Availability comes with the following features: Active-active deployment model for optimum hardware utilization. Save on costs for hardware and network bandwidth to optimize total cost of ownership. Dynatrace Managed Premium High Availability provides cost savings in terms of compute and storage allocations.

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Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

Since each node should have the same hardware configuration, you only need to do this once as it will then be applied to each and every node. We’re currently adding individual mount points for different storage types and separate disk setup for each of these storage types.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Some are hidden, but some are in plain sight.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 88

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

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.

Best Practices 206

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 206

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

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. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. Watch webinar now!

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 209

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Benefits of Graviton2 Processors Best price performance for a broad range of workloads Extensive software support Enhanced security for cloud applications Available with managed AWS services Best performance per watt of energy used in Amazon EC2 Storage Continuing with the AWS example, choosing the right storage option will be key to performance.

Cloud 119

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

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. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources.

Monitoring 208

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 208

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. What is fault tolerance?

Availability 79

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 79

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

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. This blog focuses on B-tree indexes and various corruption-related issues that occur with them. Introduction. B-tree index structure.

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Database Hardware Storage Programming 118

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. They include backup success rate, backup duration, recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), and backup storage utilization. error_log: Specifies the location of the MySQL error log.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge A future blog will continue my exploration into Citus by scaling out pgbench into other architectures. In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added.

Database 105

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 105

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

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

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 Healthcare 47

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?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. In this blog post, we’ll look at how Dynatrace provides you with observability throughout your application stack.

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Google Engineering Metrics Hardware 196

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. In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 88

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 108

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. Although cold storage and rehydration can mitigate high costs, it is inefficient and creates blind spots. The post Why log monitoring and log analytics matter in a hyperscale world appeared first on Dynatrace blog. ” Watch webinar now!

Analytics 218

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 218

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog is the result of my investigation into column-wise tables. The CITUS columnar extension feature set includes: Highly compressed tables: Reduces storage requirements. The complete CITUS feature set which, except for the Columnar storage component, is not covered in this blog, includes: Distributed tables.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 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. Upgrading MySQL to 8.0?

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 In 1997 Jim revisted his caculations with the help of Goetz Graefe , and it details the impact of 10 years of hardware and pricing progress. blog comments powered by Disqus. . | Permalink. Comments ().

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Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 108

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139