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.

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

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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.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 214

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

Data-at-rest encryption is essential for compliance with regulations that require the protection of sensitive data. It is also critical for securing sensitive data and avoiding data breaches. PostgreSQL does not natively support Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1

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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?

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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. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

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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.),

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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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?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. PMM can also show you historical data that can help you identify how long a service has been in a given state.

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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.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

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.

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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? 1 mysql mysql 9.0G

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Traffic Engineering Speed Storage 59

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store. Stream Processing: to sample or not to sample trace data?

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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.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

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.

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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.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 55

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses. pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Disaster recovery is not optional for businesses operating in the digital age.

Storage 119

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 119

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

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand. Integrating data sources and applications across multiple cloud providers brings about integration hurdles due to the different platforms involved.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Dynatrace just makes this easy—it comes out-of-the-box, no silos of data, no DIY stitching together tools, no wasted time, and no wasted resources. . Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. A Dynatrace Managed cluster may lack the necessary hardware to process all the additional incoming data.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 149

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.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. A poorly chosen shard key can lead to performance issues.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 71

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. minutes of downtime in one year.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

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.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 209

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. The alternative is to split a consistent set of data into fragments.

Traffic 122

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. You could of course create a custom device in Dynatrace and send data to it using our API or an ActiveGate extension. Visualize your synthetic monitor data.

Infrastructure 151

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 151

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades. Another benefit is cost savings associated with server and data center setup and maintenance.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Once you finally find useful identifiers, you may begin writing SQL queries against your production database to find out what went wrong. You’re joining tables, resolving status types, cross-referencing data manually with other systems, and by the end of it all you ask yourself why?

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Traffic Latency Java Google 160

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. APM-292404). APM-293415). APM-295166). APM-298915). APM-295508). APM-296578).

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The following diagram illustrates a typical workflow. What’s missing in this picture?

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IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This tight coupling means that it is not possible to achieve the following without re-encoding: A) rollout of new video quality algorithms B) maintaining the data quality of our catalog (e.g. The VQS API layer will translate the external request into VQS-specific data models. via bug fixes). The workflow is initiated.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. After many investigations I settled for T-Mobile which has an international Blackberry supplement that is $20/month for all BB mail traffic. Comments (). Syndication.

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