InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down. Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3.

Storage 135

Storage Scalability Database Technology 135

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Ten years on: How Netflix completed a historic cloud migration with AWS Amazon Fleet Management: Meet the Man Who Keeps Amazon Servers Running, No Matter What | Amazon Web Services ADS Framework at Palantir Building a SOCless detection team Lessons Learned in Detection Engineering Engineering Trade-Offs and The Netflix API Re-Architecture Evolving (..)

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more companies move away from traditional on-premises data centers, they enter into an era where scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness become possible through various services offered by different providers in the market today. This ensures the highest level of protection for data stored in these databases on the cloud.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. In this blog post, I’ll dig into MySQL query optimization and show how MySQL uses indexes in cases of queries using sorting and limiting. Here, we will look through a case study with an example.

Efficiency 100

Efficiency Database Open Source Performance 100

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. We have already seen customers successfully run HPC workloads, Hadoop-based jobs (as shown in the BackType case study), and testing simulations (as shown in the BrowserMob case study) on Spot. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Each stage has its unique challenges and potential pitfalls, as other case studies show. We realized that we needed to consider a more global and scalable solution to better serve our global audience. Its robust infrastructure, scalability, and a wide network of edge locations around the world made it a strong candidate.

Performance 75

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 75