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. System Components.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. Optimize resource allocation, identify bottlenecks, and improve overall system performance.

Efficiency 216

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 216

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

Scalability 201

Scalability Big Data Hardware Internet 201

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 345

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 345

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Here are a few ways you can scale down and save: Audit your systems: Auditing your system for unused servers and eliminating those servers can reduce your cloud spend.

Database 86

Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 86

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are still looking for old-fashioned ways, like storage-level snapshots (i.e., Both your storage and Container Storage Interface (CSI) must support snapshots. AWS EBS Snapshots).

Database 70

Database Storage Open Source AWS 70

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Part I: Overview Andreas Andreakis , Falguni Jhaveri , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Mark Cho , Poorna Reddy , Tongliang Liu Overview It is a commonly observed pattern for applications to utilize multiple datastores where each is used to serve a specific need such as storing the canonical form of data (MySQL etc.), caching (Memcached etc.),

Transportation 192

Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. At the same time, log analytics can present challenges as data volumes explode, particularly in traditional environments that lack end-to-end observability solutions.

Analytics 217

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 217

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is the process of viewing, interpreting, and querying log data so developers and IT teams can quickly detect and resolve application and system issues. At the same time, log analytics can present challenges as data volumes explode, particularly in traditional environments that lack end-to-end observability solutions.

Analytics 183

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 183

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

ScaleGrid emphasizes a security-first approach, with comprehensive cloud security features for sensitive data protection, compliance adherence, and continuous improvement to protect against emerging cyber threats. As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Unlike cloning or replication, this allows you to maintain an active, point-in-time copy of your production data. This helps reduce the load on the source system. Database Dev/Test Setup.

Analytics 185

Analytics Storage Database Systems 185

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. To get a more granular look into telemetry data, many analysts rely on custom metrics using Prometheus. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 180

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 180

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

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.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A common practice among DBAs and developers is to copy table data and.frm files from the data dictionary. In the case of InnoDB tablespaces, this information is incorporated into the tablespace itself, creating a fusion of metadata and data primarily to enhance performance. In MySQL 8.0, ibd files), general tablespace files (.ibd

Storage 98

Storage Database Engineering Open Source 98

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., A typical backing store for a web application contains data for many users. The application makes queries on behalf of an authenticated user, but it is up to the application itself to make sure that the user only sees data they are entitled to see. HotOS’19.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. 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. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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

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. Unfortunately, my excitement was short lived for a couple of reasons.

Azure 96

Azure Database Tuning Network 96

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. By separating storage and compute, Neon replaces the PostgreSQL storage layer with data nodes, and compute nodes are distributed across a cluster of nodes.

Serverless 115

Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 115

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Space constraint has been an endless and painstaking process for many of us, especially in systems that have a high number of transactions and data growth exceeding hundreds of GBs in a matter of days. MySQL won’t shrink tablespace and storage won’t be released to the file system. What is partitioning?

Traffic 61

Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 61

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

To be a client systems engineer is to take joy in small endpoint automations that make your fellow employees’ day a little better. The agent also enables rotation of recovery keys after use, local storage and validation of recovery keys, and other features. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

Open Source 194

Open Source Database Servers Storage 194

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

Percona

JULY 13, 2023

With the rise of globalization, the need to store and process multilingual data has become essential. MySQL, one of the most popular relational database management systems, recognizes this need and has introduced utf8mb4 in its 8.0 The first two rows contain simple text data, while the third row contains an emoji.

Database 95

Database Games Open Source Engineering 95

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Ease of use.

Open Source 209

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 209

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., That’s hard to do in today’s blockchain systems for two reasons: Provenance can only be determined by querying and replaying all on-chain transactions, which is inefficient and an offline activity. VLDB’19.

Blockchain 55

Blockchain Efficiency Systems Storage 55

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

In InnoDB, the undo log and the redo log are two indispensable components that play a vital role in maintaining data integrity and ensuring transactional consistency. Both logs are crucial in the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties of database systems.

Database 97

Database Tuning Storage Open Source 97

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source 83

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 83

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Mergeable replicated data types – part II Kaki et al., Last time out we saw how Mergeable Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) use a bijection between the natural domain of a data type and relational sets to define merge semantics between two concurrently modified versions given their lowest common ancestor (LCA).

C++ 98

C++ Storage Benchmarking Efficiency 98

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. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 203

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 203