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. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 183

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 183

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

DigitalOcean is a cost-effective cloud provider that caters to, and is widely adopted by the developer community. Along with many popular cloud providers, DigitalOcean also provides a Managed Databases service. On average, ScaleGrid provides over 30% more storage vs. DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL at the same affordable price.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

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. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations everywhere are adopting site reliability engineering (SRE) to cope with the growing complexity of hybrid and cloud-native environments. Indeed, more than 1,000 solutions are now incubating in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and modern applications comprise thousands of discrete microservices. Dynatrace news.

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Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 193

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

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affordable, flexible and easy to use cloud platform for developers to work with. MySQL Configuration Management & Tuning.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. Open source solutions are also making tracing harder.

Analytics 191

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

With these release candidate APIs available, instrumentation for web frameworks, storage clients, and much more can be built. We at Dynatrace understand the importance of contributing our expertise in enterprise-grade intelligent observability to the open source community. Stay tuned, there’s more to come!

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Open Source Software Engineering Government Java 152

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?

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 76

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cloud-native technologies and microservice architectures have shifted technical complexity from the source code of services to the interconnections between services. Observability for heterogeneous cloud-native technologies is key. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements around OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Dynatrace news.

Java 239

Java Traffic Strategy Architecture 239

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. The last number I saw was “over 20GW”, and Amazon has much better global PPA coverage, including India and China, than Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, who have very few PPAs in Asia.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It has become a de facto standard for perceptual quality measurements within Netflix and, thanks to its open-source nature , throughout the video industry. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations. In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” So we can ride that wave of publicity.)

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance. And making lists. Interested?

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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. If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa. Pipeline reliability and performance go hand in hand.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63