Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape.

Database 93

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 93

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The evolution of cloud-native technology has been nothing short of revolutionary. As we step into 2024, the cornerstone of cloud-native technology, Kubernetes, will turn ten years old. Keynotes were focused on how Kubernetes and Cloud Native help businesses embrace the new AI era. We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. I’d even use it to manage datacenter failover or failover for other cloud vendors, as what you really need is a highly available control plane that is totally independent of your own failure modes.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. – Cloud. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Agile.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter? What is the Recovery Time Objective?

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126