All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 137

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

While CPU Usage (Precise) is great for seeing how much CPU time a process is using, and why it is sitting idle, the CPU Usage (Sampled) table is the right tool for figuring out where CPU time is being spent. This means that there is no caching between RuntimeBroker.exe and this file. That is an average read of 68 bytes each time.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

desc="Time to process request at origin" NOTE: This is not a new API. Caching the base page/HTML is common, and it should have a positive impact on backend times. Key things to understand from your CDN Cache Hit/Cache Miss – Was the resource served from the edge, or did the request have to go to origin?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

It uses only one process which makes it very lightweight. If we require N parallel connections, this forks N child processes. By default, there are 32 child processes that are forked. PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. Pgpool-II defines one process per child process. Pooling modes.

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Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These are unchanging entities, served straight off the server, pre-generated, and devoid of server-side processing. They cache static content and enable lightning-fast delivery around the globe.This symbiosis reduces server load, boosts loading times, and ensures efficient content distribution.

Cache 52

Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Experienced database administrators learn to spot patterns that can lead to common problems. Monitoring vs. observability.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 216

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

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. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

Cache 129

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 129

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. Let’s look at some questions I did that a MySQL DBA usually needs to answer in an interview process. ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory.

Social Media 122

Social Media Database Servers Cache 122

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. The rationale was simple: the data I need is already in this other database, and accessing a database is easy, so I’ll just reach in and grab what I need. And data was at the heart of the problem.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching Schemes. Large preview ).

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, achieving a good LCP score is often a multi-faceted process that involves optimizing several stages of loading and rendering. HTML Processing Once a web page’s HTML file has been downloaded, the browser begins to process the contents line by line, translating code into the visual website that users interact with.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

Cache 79

Cache Latency Google Lambda 79

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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Lambda Latency Cache C++ 98

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Helios also serves as a reference architecture for how Microsoft envisions its next generation of distributed big-data processing systems being built. We push as much data processing as possible onto warehouse-scale computers and systems software. It’s limited by the laws of physics in terms of end-to-end latency.

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Cloud Big Data Latency Architecture 104

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Google already has Dremel , Mesa , Photon , F1 , PowerDrill , and Spanner , so why did they need yet another data processing system? are divided.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Caching of query results on the other hand, looks like a good business model, at large enough scale these might amount to pretty much the same thing). How’s that going to work given what we know about the throughput and latency of blockchains, and the associated mining costs?"

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching. TB of in-memory capacity in a single cluster.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. In each of the deployment models, the role of the database administrator is to make sure that SSRS is stable, dependable, and recoverable.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Think about updating a table with millions of rows that refer to another table with another million rows.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Amazon RDS offers a monthly uptime percentage SLA of 99.95% per Multi-AZ database instance. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 145

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

My key takeaways as a TL;DR: Store your data in S3 Use portable data format that gives you future flexibility to process it with multiple different systems (e.g. It is advantageous in the cloud to shut down compute resources when they are not being used, but there is then a query latency cost.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

Here is a MySQL database server (mysqld), PID 423, and measuring its working set size for 0.1 Short durations can be useful for understanding how well a WSS will fit into the CPU caches (L1/L2/L3, TLB L1/L2, etc). I just wrote [wss.pl] as a front-end to this feature. seconds (100 milliseconds): #./wss.pl Est(s) RSS(MB) PSS(MB) Ref(MB).

Cache 71

Cache Latency C++ Programming 71

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sharing is caring caching. Taiji’s routing table is a materialized representation of how user traffic at various edge nodes ought to be distributed over available data centers to balance data center utilization and minimize latency. For example, balance utilisation across all data centers, or optimise for network latency.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40