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In addition, we are working with the venture capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help startups grow in the cloud. For this, the public cloud forms the basic backend for doing all of this and our choice for all of our own digital products and customer experience is AWS." MORE
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Cloud Infrastructure Breakdown by Database. Now, let’s take a look at the cloud infrastructure setup breakdown by database management systems. Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Public cloud came in 2nd place with 36.7% MORE
This article is a chapter from my book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The cloud is always busy proactively working for you in the background. That’s how cloud services compete with each other to keep you in their ecosystem. MORE
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. When it comes to SLOs, the interests of the customer and the cloud provider are at odds, and so we end up with SLAs (Service Level Agreements) that tie SLOs to contractual agreements. From a cloud provider perspective, these are likely to be internal SLOs: the targets that the provider strives to meet, but is not contractually obligated to meet. MORE
OneAgent & cloud metrics. Virtualization can be a key player in your process’ performance, and Dynatrace has built-in integrations to bring metrics about the Cloud Infrastructure into your Dynatrace environment. Dynatrace news. MORE
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. MORE
For our MongoDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) AWS deployments that are not open to the internet, this may mean selecting an instance that is allowed to connect to the Security Group and also has VPN connectivity to the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). MORE
Kevin Stewart explores the people, processes, and cultural aspects that complement the cloud-native computing stack. Continue reading Going (cloud) native MORE
What bugs cause production cloud incidents? Last time out we looked at SLOs for cloud platforms , today we’re looking at what causes them to be broken! Microsoft is also using fuzz testing, cloud contract checking, and network configuration verification tools. Different components of cloud services interact with each other through various types of “data”, including inter-process/node messages, persistent files, and so on. MORE
Across the board, the topics cloud migration, application modernization, breaking the monolith or hybrid cloud re-platforming have been a center point in many of our discussions with our joint enterprise customers. Dynatrace news. MORE
cloud tutorial performance google load testing load balancing google cloud gcp proxysqlThere are three different ways ProxySQL can direct traffic between your application and the back-end MySQL services. Locally, on the MySQL servers. Between the MySQL servers and the application. Colocated on the application servers themselves. Without going through too much detail, each has its own limitations. MORE
Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Many of our startup customers in Africa are leveraging the AWS Cloud to grow into successful global businesses. Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! MORE
In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report, we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives. MORE
When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively. Services running in the cloud must be continuously monitored to ensure proper operation. MORE
There are many vendors in the market who provide the real devices in the cloud but Bitbar is the pioneer who started supporting XCUITest in the cloud before anyone else. In this post, we will see how we can use Bitbar Device Cloud to run our XCUITest tests on physical devices. MORE
All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Finally, provisioning our infrastructure itself is also becoming an increasingly complex task, so our data teams contribute to tools for diagnosis and automation of our cloud capacity management. MORE
Thanks to the hundreds of participants who contributed to the cloud database trends report at DeveloperWeek 2019! Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? MORE
While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear. MORE
Cloud Camp?—?September This is one of the first events I attended as we were starting to figure out our cloud transition at Netflix, and was where I first met Dave Nielsen, Reuven Cohen, Sam Charrington, and Sara Dornsife] From cloudcamp 9/30/08 Hello CloudCampers, As you probably know, CloudCampSV is taking place tonite at Sun’s Executive Briefing Center in Menlo Park. cloud-computingHistorical Archive?—?Cloud MORE
Purpose. Recently there has been some discussions around service mesh benchmark tests. We are evaluating Netifi RSocket broker, and I think it would be nice to get a sense on the performance of RSocket broker using the same Istio setup. RSocket. MORE
In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report , we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. MORE
Whether it’s a result of different teams or lines of business within the same company on separate instances, or even a merger or acquisition, you see different flavors of the multi-Jira architecture: Split across Jira server and Jira Cloud. MORE
Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser. MORE
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? MORE
We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. We doubled-down decided to use a single cloud provider for each of our environments and moved all our public cloud infrastructure to AWS. MORE
Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. That's how services built on a cloud work. MORE
Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., On the public cloud Seer’s inference times increased from 11.4ms for the 20-node private cluster setting to 54ms for the 100 server GCE setting. MORE
In order for your WordPress website to be able to access, store and retrieve the data in your MySQL database, it needs to be hosted online through a cloud computing service. Host MySQL on AWS , or MySQL on Azure with configurable instance sizes through the top two cloud providers in the world. How to Setup a #WordPress #MySQL Database in the Cloud Click To Tweet. BYOC MySQL Deployment – Host through your own cloud account. MORE
There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. If you haven't put it on your reading list, here's a tantalizing excerpt from CHAPTER 11 Managing Load by Cooper Bethea, Gráinne Sheerin, Jennifer Mace, and Ruth King with Gary Luo and Gary O’Connor. MORE
I summarized the Netflix stack and explained how we examine performance problems cloud-wide, and then how we can drill down to instances using flame graphs and other tools. For the YOW! MORE
With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? The main take-aways for me were: AWS cloud security MORE
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans. MORE
I'm happy to announce today that the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region is now open! This is our first AWS Region in the Middle East and I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to organizations of all sizes. MORE
June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif., MORE
I have been using it at my current tour through different conferences ( Devoxx , Confitura ) and meetups, ( Cloud Native , KraQA , Trojmiasto Java UG ) where I’ve promoted keptn. Prometheus is a great open source monitoring solution in the cloud-native space that gives me a lot of metrics. MORE
An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack. MORE
Cloud-based applications enjoy the unique elasticity that cloud infrastructures provide. As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Deploying an IMDG in the Cloud. MORE
So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet. Another important aspect to consider is the performance of your MySQL instances in the public cloud. MORE
Docker), and the cloud. In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate. MORE
div align="center">. This is a guest post from Ryan Averill at FraudGuard.io. At FraudGuard.io we are a team of just a few developers; all working with our customers to try to make their applications as safe as possible. MORE
Earlier this year, we provided the Dynatrace Autonomous Cloud Survey to over 100 organizations so that we could better understand what is holding companies back from taking the next steps in their cloud automation journey. Dynatrace news. MORE
Tamar Eilam offers an overview of cloud-native programming and outlines a path toward the unification of the cloud programming model. Continue reading The future of cloud-native programming MORE
Evolving to Cloud Native. Every organization has at least a phalanx or two in the “Cloud” and it is, understandably changing the way we architect our systems. This talk will explore the strategies, tools and techniques you can apply as you evolve towards a cloud native future. how to take those heritage systems to the Cloud. Full Abstract. MORE
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Scalegrid
JUNE 6, 2019
June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif.,
High Scalability
APRIL 3, 2019
In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report , we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud.
High Scalability
JUNE 27, 2019
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?
Scalegrid
APRIL 2, 2019
In this free PostgreSQL Trends Report, we break down PostgreSQL hosting use across public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud, most popular cloud providers, migration trends, database combinations with Postgres, and why PostgreSQL is preferred over popular RDBMS alternatives.
Scalegrid
JULY 8, 2019
So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure , including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance. The Best Way to Host MySQL on Azure Cloud Click To Tweet. Another important aspect to consider is the performance of your MySQL instances in the public cloud.
Dynatrace
JULY 8, 2019
While not a new concept, the term “cloud” creates a lot of confusion because it means different things to different audiences. I’ve been speaking to customers over the last few months about our new cloud architecture for Synthetic testing locations and their confusion is clear.
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
With the enormous attack surface of cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, why aren't there more security problems? How do you explain the unreasonable effectiveness of cloud security? The main take-aways for me were: AWS cloud security
DZone
MAY 30, 2019
There are many vendors in the market who provide the real devices in the cloud but Bitbar is the pioneer who started supporting XCUITest in the cloud before anyone else. In this post, we will see how we can use Bitbar Device Cloud to run our XCUITest tests on physical devices.
High Scalability
AUGUST 27, 2018
We designed Auth0 from the beginning so that it could run anywhere: on our cloud, on your cloud, or even on your own private infrastructure. We doubled-down decided to use a single cloud provider for each of our environments and moved all our public cloud infrastructure to AWS.
DZone
JUNE 17, 2019
Purpose. Recently there has been some discussions around service mesh benchmark tests. We are evaluating Netifi RSocket broker, and I think it would be nice to get a sense on the performance of RSocket broker using the same Istio setup. RSocket.
Dynatrace
MAY 16, 2019
Earlier this year, we provided the Dynatrace Autonomous Cloud Survey to over 100 organizations so that we could better understand what is holding companies back from taking the next steps in their cloud automation journey. Dynatrace news.
DZone
APRIL 30, 2019
cloud tutorial performance google load testing load balancing google cloud gcp proxysqlThere are three different ways ProxySQL can direct traffic between your application and the back-end MySQL services. Locally, on the MySQL servers. Between the MySQL servers and the application. Colocated on the application servers themselves. Without going through too much detail, each has its own limitations.
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Like an amoeba the public cloud is extending fingerlike projections to the edge in a new kind of architecture that creates a world spanning distributed infrastructure under one centralized management, billing, and security domain. That's how services built on a cloud work.
The Netflix TechBlog
MARCH 5, 2019
All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Finally, provisioning our infrastructure itself is also becoming an increasingly complex task, so our data teams contribute to tools for diagnosis and automation of our cloud capacity management.
Scalegrid
JUNE 11, 2019
Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Cloud Infrastructure Breakdown by Database. Now, let’s take a look at the cloud infrastructure setup breakdown by database management systems. Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. Public cloud came in 2nd place with 36.7%
High Scalability
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
This article is a chapter from my book Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. The cloud is always busy proactively working for you in the background. That’s how cloud services compete with each other to keep you in their ecosystem.
DZone
JUNE 20, 2019
Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser.
The Morning Paper
JUNE 20, 2019
What bugs cause production cloud incidents? Last time out we looked at SLOs for cloud platforms , today we’re looking at what causes them to be broken! Microsoft is also using fuzz testing, cloud contract checking, and network configuration verification tools. Different components of cloud services interact with each other through various types of “data”, including inter-process/node messages, persistent files, and so on.
High Scalability
JANUARY 28, 2019
div align="center">. This is a guest post from Ryan Averill at FraudGuard.io. At FraudGuard.io we are a team of just a few developers; all working with our customers to try to make their applications as safe as possible.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Tamar Eilam offers an overview of cloud-native programming and outlines a path toward the unification of the cloud programming model. Continue reading The future of cloud-native programming
Dynatrace
AUGUST 5, 2019
Across the board, the topics cloud migration, application modernization, breaking the monolith or hybrid cloud re-platforming have been a center point in many of our discussions with our joint enterprise customers. Dynatrace news.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Kevin Stewart explores the people, processes, and cultural aspects that complement the cloud-native computing stack. Continue reading Going (cloud) native
High Scalability
AUGUST 8, 2018
There are a lot of cool nuggets in Google's New Book: The Site Reliability Workbook. If you haven't put it on your reading list, here's a tantalizing excerpt from CHAPTER 11 Managing Load by Cooper Bethea, Gráinne Sheerin, Jennifer Mace, and Ruth King with Gary Luo and Gary O’Connor.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans.
Tasktop
APRIL 30, 2019
Whether it’s a result of different teams or lines of business within the same company on separate instances, or even a merger or acquisition, you see different flavors of the multi-Jira architecture: Split across Jira server and Jira Cloud.
Nathaniell Schutta
AUGUST 7, 2018
Evolving to Cloud Native. Every organization has at least a phalanx or two in the “Cloud” and it is, understandably changing the way we architect our systems. This talk will explore the strategies, tools and techniques you can apply as you evolve towards a cloud native future. how to take those heritage systems to the Cloud. Full Abstract.
The Morning Paper
JUNE 18, 2019
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. When it comes to SLOs, the interests of the customer and the cloud provider are at odds, and so we end up with SLAs (Service Level Agreements) that tie SLOs to contractual agreements. From a cloud provider perspective, these are likely to be internal SLOs: the targets that the provider strives to meet, but is not contractually obligated to meet.
O'Reilly Software
APRIL 30, 2018
When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively. Services running in the cloud must be continuously monitored to ensure proper operation.
Dynatrace
JULY 10, 2019
OneAgent & cloud metrics. Virtualization can be a key player in your process’ performance, and Dynatrace has built-in integrations to bring metrics about the Cloud Infrastructure into your Dynatrace environment. Dynatrace news.
Brendan Gregg
APRIL 26, 2019
I summarized the Netflix stack and explained how we examine performance problems cloud-wide, and then how we can drill down to instances using flame graphs and other tools. For the YOW!
High Scalability
APRIL 16, 2019
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II.
The Morning Paper
MAY 12, 2019
An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 12, 2018
In addition, we are working with the venture capital community, startup accelerators, and incubators to help startups grow in the cloud. For this, the public cloud forms the basic backend for doing all of this and our choice for all of our own digital products and customer experience is AWS."
Scalegrid
MARCH 4, 2019
Thanks to the hundreds of participants who contributed to the cloud database trends report at DeveloperWeek 2019! Wondering which databases are trending in 2019?
Adrian Cockcroft
DECEMBER 4, 2018
Cloud Camp?—?September This is one of the first events I attended as we were starting to figure out our cloud transition at Netflix, and was where I first met Dave Nielsen, Reuven Cohen, Sam Charrington, and Sara Dornsife] From cloudcamp 9/30/08 Hello CloudCampers, As you probably know, CloudCampSV is taking place tonite at Sun’s Executive Briefing Center in Menlo Park. cloud-computingHistorical Archive?—?Cloud
Dynatrace
JULY 11, 2019
I have been using it at my current tour through different conferences ( Devoxx , Confitura ) and meetups, ( Cloud Native , KraQA , Trojmiasto Java UG ) where I’ve promoted keptn. Prometheus is a great open source monitoring solution in the cloud-native space that gives me a lot of metrics.
O'Reilly Software
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Continue reading Accelerate application delivery with a cloud-native mindset Andrew Hately says enterprises must adopt a collaborative culture to truly exploit continuous-deployment workflows.
The Morning Paper
MAY 14, 2019
Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., On the public cloud Seer’s inference times increased from 11.4ms for the 20-node private cluster setting to 54ms for the 100 server GCE setting.
ScaleOut Software
AUGUST 19, 2014
Cloud-based applications enjoy the unique elasticity that cloud infrastructures provide. As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Deploying an IMDG in the Cloud.
All Things Distributed
JULY 30, 2019
I'm happy to announce today that the new AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region is now open! This is our first AWS Region in the Middle East and I'm excited by the opportunities the availability of hyper scale infrastructure will bring to organizations of all sizes.
Scalegrid
JANUARY 17, 2019
For our MongoDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) AWS deployments that are not open to the internet, this may mean selecting an instance that is allowed to connect to the Security Group and also has VPN connectivity to the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
All Things Distributed
APRIL 11, 2018
Docker), and the cloud. In our industry, four years is a long time, but I think we've only just started exploring how this combination of code packaging, well-designed workflows, and the cloud can reshape the ability of developers to quickly build applications and innovate.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Many of our startup customers in Africa are leveraging the AWS Cloud to grow into successful global businesses. Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa!
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