Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Without going further into the reasons for such a need, I wanted to refresh this subject in terms of overhead related to running the command on production systems. A lot has changed since then, but many production systems alive today still run with affected versions. Let’s recap how the situation has evolved over the years.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. As organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, observability data—telemetry from applications and infrastructure, including logs, metrics, and traces—and security data are converging.

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DZone

JANUARY 30, 2024

The evolution of enterprise software engineering has been marked by a series of "less" shifts — from client-server to web and mobile ("client-less"), data center to cloud ("data-center-less"), and app server to serverless.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This technique facilitates validation on multiple fronts.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now? which was released as Percona Server for MongoDB RC 7.0.2-1.

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SQL Shack

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) encrypts database files to secure your data. It also encrypts the tempdb database to secure your data in a temporary space. The process of encryption and decryption adds additional overhead to the database system.

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Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

Managing database servers involves different aspects, among which security is critical. However, we know having a “runaway” grant is always a possibility, especially in environments with a large number of servers. Fortunately, in Percona Server for MySQL , this feature is free to use. How does it work?

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Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration. 4, one key path can be used for all servers in a clustered environment. Changes introduced with Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Sometimes crucial data sharing is avoided because of compliance rules, organizational policies, or numerous security concerns. Pt-secure-collect helps in collecting, sanitizing, and encrypting data from various sources. By default, it encrypts the data and asks for the encryption password as well. shell> tar -xzvf pt.tar.gz

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data.

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Percona Community

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We will use Docker as a container engine tool and Percona Server for MySQL as a database administration tool. MySQL is a relational database management system that stores data on disk. Percona Server for MySQL is a fork of MYSQL, providing much more advanced features. Both are open source tools.

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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?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. The extension runs remotely from your Dynatrace ActiveGates and connects to your IBM i system.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 15, 2024

Syslog is the go-to protocol that delivers infrastructure administrators, network engineers, and security team logs that tell them all they need to know about their systems’ delivery, performance, availability, and security. Syslog is a protocol with clear specifications that require a dedicated syslog server.

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SQL Shack

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In this article, we will learn how we can detect which operations cause to fill up SQL Server tempdb through the dynamic management views. What is SQL Server tempdb used for? Tempdb is one of the system databases, that is used by many activities in SQL Server to temporarily store data. Such as when a […].

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

If your environment is like many others, it can often seem like your systems produce logs filled with a bunch of excess data. Since you need to access multiple components (servers, databases, network infrastructure, applications, etc.) Though it can feel like more trouble than it’s worth, sorting through logs is crucial.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Optimizing complex MySQL queries is crucial when dealing with large datasets, such as fetching data from a database containing one million records or more. Poorly optimized queries can lead to slow response times and increased load on the database server, negatively impacting user experience and system performance.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2022

Building resilient systems requires comprehensive error management. Errors could occur in any part of the system / or its ecosystem and there are different ways of handling these e.g. Datacenter - data center failure where the whole DC could become unavailable due to power failure, network connectivity failure, environmental catastrophe, etc.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

XML external entity (XXE) exploit The aXMLRPC library allows its users to connect to a server and perform RPC calls using the XML-RPC protocol over HTTP. A possibility to make this exploit successful is a man-in-the-middle attack that intercepts the connection to a legitimate server. xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE

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Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

This is further exacerbated by the fact that a significant portion of their IT budgets are allocated to maintaining outdated legacy systems. By combining AI and observability, government agencies can create more intelligent and responsive systems that are better equipped to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure. Canaries ), detection and improved KPIs.

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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. 1 mysql mysql 9.0G ibd -rw-r --.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

SIEM systems enable early detection of security threats and suspicious activities by analyzing vast amounts of log data in real time. Correlation Engine: SIEM systems analyze and correlate the collected data to identify patterns, anomalies, and potential security incidents.

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DZone

AUGUST 2, 2022

A significant feature of Chronicle Queue Enterprise is support for TCP replication across multiple servers to ensure the high availability of application infrastructure. This is the first time I have benchmarked it with a realistic example.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security. It represents either an IP address or domain name of the server, where one can find those databases located. Do check your configuration accordingly, however.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this post, we will do a walk through example of installing and configuring unixODBC and the SQL Server on Linux drivers as well as the HammerDB connection options to enable HammerDB on Linux to be able to connect to SQL Server. usr/local/unixODBC/etc/ODBCDataSources USER DATA SOURCES.: /usr/local/unixODBC/etc/odbc.ini

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. Computer operations manages the physical location of the servers — cooling, electricity, and backups — and monitors and responds to alerts.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Running Databases efficiently is crucial for business success Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that result in data loss or downtime. This makes them ideal for managing structured data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

And with Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian , all teams across the organization can understand how their specific silo operates in relation to critical systems. The unified observability and security platform presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways. This creates complexity.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

Towards federated learning at scale: system design Bonawitz et al., This is a high level paper describing Google’s production system for federated learning. Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning approach which enables training on a large corpus of decentralized data residing on devices like mobile phones.

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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.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

By seamlessly integrating observability, AI-driven insights, and data analytics, organizations can overcome common obstacles such as operational inefficiencies, performance bottlenecks, and scalability concerns. Learn to boost system reliability through proactive issue detection.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 2, 2019

I have been making the same recommendations about tempdb since I started working with SQL Server over 15 years ago, when I was working with customers running version 2000. The gist of it: create multiple data files that are sized the same, with the same auto-growth settings, enable trace flag 1118 (and maybe 1117), and reduce your tempdb use.

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