Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. What Exactly is Greenplum? Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

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 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. The biggest drawbacks are that a full backup can be time-consuming, and they require a significant amount of storage space.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, traditional approaches to IT operations have been evolving. Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. The importance of ITOps cannot be overstated, especially as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies.

Artificial Intelligence 191

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 191

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. As data volumes rapidly increase, streamlined data storage is a top priority. Dynatrace news. Reliability.

Serverless 269

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 269

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The containerization craze has continued for enterprises, with benefits such as portability, efficiency, and scalability. Container as a service is a cloud-based service that allows companies to manage and deploy containers at scale. This, in turn, drove the creation of cloud-based services that further automated this function.

Serverless 212

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 212

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. The caching use case may be the most familiar, but in fact it’s not the primary purpose of the ephemeral storage service.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " Cloud providers count on this to ease provisioning and fault-tolerance.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.

Analytics 198

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 198

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. All of these require a lot of capital.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 web worker migration , Jeong et al., On the server side (in the edge or cloud) another Mobile Web Worker Manager component is responsible for managing pools of mobile workers. in the cloud). SoCC’19 [^1].

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Components of high availability infrastructure Multiple copies of data Data redundancy helps prevent data loss due to hardware or software failures. Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. Several recent studies have noted that trends like dark silicon have exacerbated the disparity between embodied carbon and operational carbon because energy-efficiency optimization has traded gains in the latter for increases in the former.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

In addition to that: Run up to four pgBackrest repositories Bootstrap the cluster from the existing backup through Custom Resource Azure Blob Storage support Operations Deploying complex topologies in Kubernetes is not possible without affinity and anti-affinity rules. In version 1.x, We look forward to seeing what you can do with it!

Availability 92

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 92

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. It’s essential to select an appropriate shard key to ensure even data distribution and efficient querying.

Best Practices 71

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. As with any database, developers and DBAs working with MongoDB should look at how to optimize the performance of their database, especially nowadays with cloud services, where each byte processed, transmitted, and stored costs money.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

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. If you can answer all these questions fine – if not: get your own Dynatrace Trial and start installing OneAgents.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Both of these are important as they help customer accurately gauge the economic benefits of running their applications in the cloud. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We hear a lot from Google and Microsoft about their cloud platforms, but not quite so much from the other key industry players. Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna. This VLDB’19 paper describes “ how we extended a distributed key-value store called Anna into an autoscaling, multi-tier service for the cloud.”

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. These factors meant that often when looking for database performance information, the results for a particular combination of software and hardware were not available. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There's a move to regulate cloud providers by vertically separating the services they offer. Like railroads of yore, who were not allowed to provide freight services on top of their base services, cloud providers would not be allowed to provide services on top of their base platform services. The job of a cloud is to run workloads.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. One of our first partners for the Netflix Workstations is NetFX , a cloud-based VFX platform that enables vendors, artists, and creators worldwide to collaborate on Netflix VFX content.

Entertainment 306

Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12