DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. Security remains paramount for KVM due to testing and security updates from the open-source community.

Virtualization 117

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 117

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability. Therefore, TOAST is a storage technique used in PostgreSQL to handle large data objects such as images, videos, and audio files.

Storage 89

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 89

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2024

Unfortunately, their market prediction wasn’t correct; the cloud became more successful than IOT. New processors: Introducing new processors, including Metric Selector and Content Modifier, for selective data processing and metadata adjustment, improving data relevance and storage efficiency. What’s new in Fluent Bit 3.0

Best Practices 239

Best Practices IoT Metrics Storage 239

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 118

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. Ingest and process with Grail.

Artificial Intelligence 264

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 264

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 182

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

Today’s digital businesses run on heterogeneous and highly dynamic architectures with interconnected applications and microservices deployed via Kubernetes and other cloud-native platforms. All this data is then consumed by Dynatrace Davis® AI for more precise answers, thereby driving AIOps for cloud-native environments.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Me : Nothing special. See you in the New Year.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

DevOps enables developers to rapidly and frequently release new features and services by using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , suites of collaboration tools, and version control practices, most often with the open source Git software at its core. GitOps improves speed and scalability.

DevOps 221

DevOps Infrastructure Speed Cloud 221

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. The biggest drawbacks are that a full backup can be time-consuming, and they require a significant amount of storage space. Therefore, it’s not the ideal choice if there are time or storage limitations.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

While many organizations have embraced cloud observability to better manage their cloud environments, they may still struggle with the volume of entities that observability platforms monitor. Fluentd is an open source data collector that decouples data sources from observability tools and platforms by providing a unified logging layer.

Strategy 177

Strategy AWS Open Source Transportation 177

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Increasingly, organizations are turning to modern observability platforms to address the complexity of, and gain visibility into, cloud environments. Further, automation has become a core strategy as organizations migrate to and operate in the cloud. Security teams can identify vulnerabilities and automate remediation. Learn more.

Efficiency 272

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 272

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 was released.

Open Source 79

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 79

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. Those problems (some with shared elements) include: High cost and complicated pricing structure : Many companies say MongoDB has an expensive and complicated pricing structure ( Cloud Zero, January 2023 ).

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021.

Metrics 174

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 174

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37.1 was released on June 5, 2023.

Open Source 82

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 82

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

These challenges make AWS observability a key practice for building and monitoring cloud-native applications. Because of its matrix of cloud services across multiple environments, AWS and other multicloud environments can be more difficult to manage and monitor compared with traditional on-premises infrastructure. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 207

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 207

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. It’s time for the release roundup! Take a look! Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.17

Monitoring 76

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 76

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. Setting oom_score_adj to -800. References How MySQL 8.0.21

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. MongoDB Atlas backup: This hosted cloud service offers continuous backups or snapshots for point-in-time recovery, as well as incremental backups. The software is truly open source.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Red Hat OpenShift is a cloud-based Kubernetes platform that helps developers build applications. It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Dynatrace news. What is OpenShift? The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An open platform can address some of the challenges organizations have experienced as they move to the cloud to become more resilient and agile in the face of disruption. Conversely, an open platform can promote interoperability and innovation. As organizations continue to operate in the cloud, open technologies become critical.

Innovation 193

Innovation Software Software Cloud 193

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. In version 1.x,

Availability 93

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 93

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. What's changed ?

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources.

Artificial Intelligence 174

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 174

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Cloud provider/infrastructure layer.

Virtualization 159

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 159

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. Another reason for PostgreSQL popularity (perhaps the biggest): It’s open source and free to use, distribute, and modify. What is PostgreSQL used for?

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) supports critical business applications in your public, private, or hybrid cloud environment.

Open Source 77

Open Source Servers AWS Database 77