Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

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. Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps and cloud-based computing have existed in our life for some time now. Today, we are here to talk about the successful amalgamation of DevOps and cloud-based technologies that is amazing in itself. Why Opt For Cloud-Based Solutions and DevOps? Cloud-based solutions are extremely fast when combined with DevOps.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

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

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

So while scale out has seen the majority of attention in the cloud era, it’s good to remind ourselves periodically just what we really can do on a single box or even a single thread. When used in prevention mode (IPS), this all has to happen inline over incoming traffic to block any traffic with suspicious signatures.

Servers 128

Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

It comprises a collection of interrelated data and a set of software tools that aid in the access, processing, and management of data. However, some challenges may arise when scaling a DBMS, such as improper traffic distribution, inefficient database management, and performance issues. What is the main advantage of using a database?

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. . But it is not just Dutch entrepreneurs who build their business in the cloud, also traditional Dutch enterprises are moving to the cloud to improve their agility and cost-effectiveness.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

From the software perspective, Linux players like RedHat, Ubuntu, and SUSE have already entered this market with fully supported enterprise versions of Linux for ARM. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Limited toolset and features Another challenge that organizations may face when considering open source is the perception that community software versions have a limited set of features. Security and risk The question “ Is Open Source software safe? It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. A rough guide if you don’t have any better data is that with no traffic to a system it will be 10% utilization and use 30% of peak power, 25% utilization uses 50% of peak power, and at 50% utilization it uses 75% of peak power.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. 2) Hardware limitations Disk and memory are inexpensive nowadays. An example is running MongoDB on Mesos.

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Modern web applications and pages, such as single-page applications, that put the user experience at its utmost priority are expected to be available 24/7, anywhere in the world, usable on any screen size, secure, flexible, scalable and be ready to meet traffic spikes on demand. Hardware resources. Software that’s running.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Seer is an online system that observes the behaviour of cloud applications (using the DeathStarBench microservices for the evaluation) and predicts when QoS violations may be about to occur. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., A three-tier system is a software application architecture that consists of a presentation layer, application layer, and data, or core, layer. Blockchain is a good example of this.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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. Resource consumption & traffic analysis. It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Build evolvable systems. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions. Along with data generated in the cloud, customers also have legacy data sitting in on-premises datacenters, scattered on user desktops, or stored in SAS applications. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Download Now What is Amazon Aurora?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 20, 2018

In this post, I argue that software and data interoperability, a hallmark of the modern computer ecosystem, is at the core of several widespread security problems. An alternate approach is to tie data and potentially software to specific physical instances of a digital system. Interoperability.

Hardware 47

Hardware Operating System Architecture Software 47

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

An opening scene involving a traffic jam of Viking boats and a musical number (“Love Can’t Afjord to wait”). Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. Private Clouds made of commodity hardware are perceived as the logical solution to this problem. Vikings fight zombies.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

Availability 32

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 32

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. When we observe the global CPU usage one clear difference is the increase in softirqs or software interrupts.(If sec) Now we can observe that when we used client SQL we spent 7.6X

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Thanks to cloud-based virtual servers, LoadView can send traffic to your site or application from around the world. Conclusion.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

It also uses the "minimum-viable-product" approach and relies on microservices for its software. The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection. The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection. All in all, HARTING has become faster. Taking the dread out of mistakes.

Innovation 113

Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers such as Electronic Arts, News International, SmugMug, Shazam, IMDb, Amazon Cloud Drive, and many others are using DynamoDB to power their applications. We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2019

The IBM Z platform is a range of mainframe hardware solutions that are quite frequently used in large computing shops. Typically, these shops run the z/OS operating system, but more recently, it’s not uncommon to see the Z hardware running special versions of Linux distributions. Automatic updates of all monitoring modules.

Availability 25

Availability Hardware Java Tuning 25

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In the same way that we have moved from a few big software releases a year to continuous delivery of many small changes, we need to move from annual disaster recover tests or suffering when things actually break, to continuously tested resilience. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52