Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

Azure 344

Azure AWS Database Latency 344

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Regarding MySQL backups , knowing how to secure your data is crucial. Dive in to uncover the essentials of different backup types, command-line tools, and strategic practices for robust data protection. MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

These days, “Data is king,” and a lot more. Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. Any organization that uses personal and other sensitive data must have a firm, proven plan for business continuity in the event of a disaster or cyberattack.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking. What is Microsoft Hyper-V?

Efficiency 203

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 203

DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

Surprisingly, the problem isn’t widely discussed, even though it is silently causing data corruption that can directly impact our jobs, our businesses, and our security. The Error-Prone Data Trail. Let’s assume for a moment that your data survives its many passes through a system’s DRAM and emerges intact.

Storage 145

Storage Systems Transportation Network 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

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. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kubernetes was initially designed with a strong focus on stateless workloads, meaning these workloads do not need to store any persistent data. Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs).

Storage 177

Storage Database Network Metrics 177

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

As cloud and big data complexity scales beyond the ability of traditional monitoring tools to handle, next-generation cloud monitoring and observability are becoming necessities for IT teams. With agent monitoring, third-party software collects data and reports from the component that’s attached to the agent. Database monitoring.

Cloud 214

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 214

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. More in the following sub-section.)

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. We help you configure your MySQL deployment to optimize your performance based on the size of your databases.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. What is workload in cloud computing? This trend features running multiple distinct variants simultaneously, each relying on services delivered by various vendors.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

Performance 127

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 127

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

VoltDB

MARCH 21, 2024

The law of entropy clearly applies as much to tech stacks and data management as it does to closets and desk drawers. The most obvious and common way this happens is when companies try to evolve their caches into a data platform that can, for example, be used as highly available enterprise key-value stores for volatile data.

Cache 52

Cache Database Storage Availability 52

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. Key Takeaways Understanding PostgreSQL hostname is essential for successful database connections. Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., In databases you probably know it as stored procedures. Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " SoCC’19. "Narrowing

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, losing critical data can be catastrophic for any organization. As a MongoDB user, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Why are MongoDB database backups important?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Network hit from the ADS Profiler extension (4-minute range).

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Implementing a hybrid cloud solution involves careful decision-making regarding application and data placement, migration strategies, and choosing compatible cloud service providers while ensuring seamless integration and addressing security and compliance challenges. We will examine each of these elements in more detail.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Each service comes with zero-configuration, automatic instance detection, continuous data capture in context, and what’s most important – thanks to our AI engine Davis – is each service provides answers, not just data. Available Now.

AWS 262

AWS Cloud IoT Database 262

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 169

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 169

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps monitoring tools enable teams to collect, analyze, and visualize data to ensure the smooth operation of software applications and infrastructure in a DevOps environment. The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases.

DevOps 209

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 209

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

Open Source 195

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 195

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Data Placement. Data Consistency. This fact is often referred to as the CAP theorem.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. HyperScale Database. DTU Pricing Tier.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. for unplanned downtime, resource saturation, network intrusion. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years.

Infrastructure 189

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 189

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147