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. Here are a few critical ways in which it differs from replication: You can control how frequently the destination system syncs from source – once a week, once a day, or even less frequently.

Analytics 185

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Percona

APRIL 4, 2023

Odds are you are not using a column named Master_tls_ciphersuites , but what about Rank , System , Skip , or Lead ? Those are a lot more common and may be in your table definitions, so your upgrade process will be harder. Reserved words added to 8.0 Words that are no longer reserved in MySQL 8.0

Open Source 118

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Monitoring , by textbook definition, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and using information to track a program’s progress toward reaching its objectives and to guide management decisions. Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context.

Monitoring 216

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

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. That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

Best Practices 52

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. 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. introduces is the limitation of the downgrade process. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

Many of the Netflix Content and Studio Engineering services rely on Conductor for efficient processing of their business flows. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Adoption As of writing this blog, Conductor orchestrates 600+ workflow definitions owned by 50+ teams across Netflix.

Lambda 189

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Topology definition and entity extraction rules.

Technology 213

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

This can be changed later using the pg_checksums utility, but that will be a painful exercise on a big database. cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/postgresql-14.service. That is where all “ALTER SYSTEM SET/RESET” commands keep the information. Database level setting All options discussed so far have a global scope.

Database 105

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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. This covers the infrastructure, processes, and the application stack, including tracing, profiling, and logs.

Metrics 175

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In a world where data security is essential, enabling MongoDB SSL is critical in fortifying your database. Each section is crafted to elevate your database’s security protocol, from acquiring the necessary SSL certificates to configuring server and client connections. Direct net.ssl.PEMKeyFile to the path of your.pem file.

Servers 130

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Complex IT systems make it possible to buy your favorite pair of jeans online, pay your bills, or help you navigate. These systems produce an unimaginably huge amount of data. A single OneAgent instance can handle the monitoring of many types of entities, including servers, applications, services, databases, and more.

Metrics 167

Metrics Monitoring Network Technology 167

Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many changes and new features are brought to the system, and as part of keeping in tune with the changes and how they can impact us, we go through the changes to better understand them. The dynamic allocation might have flaws, but it’s definitely a good addition. From that, this article is born.

Metrics 104

Metrics C++ Storage Database 104

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the world of database management, ALTER TABLE operations are a crucial part of modifying database structures. MySQL, a popular database management system, offers online operations since version 5.6, sec) The alteration appears successful, and we see the table definition accordingly modified. Try ALGORITHM=COPY.

Storage 81

Storage Database Open Source Engineering 81

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

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High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

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Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

System space is at a premium i.e. it’s worth your while to manage space utilization as much as possible. Online analytical processing , OLAP : Online analytical processing applications enable users to analyze multidimensional data interactively from multiple perspectives which consist of three basic analytical operations: .

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

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Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. The redo apply phase wouldn’t make the database consistent with respect to a transaction. So, given a table_id, how do you get the table schema/definition? This phase has no concept of a row or a transaction.

Cache 87

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 87

Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While working as a DBA, we perform many regular tasks, and one of them is upgrading our database systems. There are some techniques to perform a PostgreSQL database upgrade, such as data dump and import, logical replication, or in-site upgrade using pg_upgrade. ii postgresql-11 11.18-1.pgdg20.04+1

C++ 83

C++ Open Source Database Programming 83

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Linux, for example, is the most widely used operating system to run services you use daily. Open source databases, like MySQL and PostgreSQL, are among the most widely used and popular databases for workloads large and small. WordPress, in fact, powers this blog and uses a MySQL database to store its content.)

Open Source 86

Open Source Software Software Social Media 86

Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First, we will need to install the OS with the necessary control files for the appropriate PostgreSQL version for installing pg_partman on the database. Installation of pg_partman on the database I recommend creating the schema before creating the extension to install the extension’s objects. pg_partman_bgw.dbname : Required.

Storage 102

Storage Open Source Database Efficiency 102

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

Processing 272

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 272

Testsigma

APRIL 8, 2020

BDD is a software development process that is driven by the behaviour of an application and is sometimes called as an extension of the Test Driven Development (TDD) approach. Below figure from depicts the process followed by TDD. Below figure shows the process followed by BDD: Image Source. Behavior Driven Development(BDD).

Development 96

Development Programming Testing Java 96

Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2021

Distributed tracing describes the act of following a transaction through all participating applications (tiers) and sub-systems, such as databases. All systems that support distributed tracing use some identifiers, the trace context, that is passed along with the transaction. Distributed tracing. W3C Trace Context.

Open Source 197

Open Source Monitoring Google Systems 197

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. A Trigger in MySQL is a database object that plays a pivotal role in database management.

Cache 62

Cache Database Games Healthcare 62

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You plan to use chaos engineering in your delivery process. As this led to a countless number of connections and dependencies between them, the complexity of such systems increased. Moreover, chaos engineering experiments should be designed to reveal weaknesses in systems in a planned way with the aim to make systems more robust.

Engineering 139

Engineering Cloud Monitoring Testing 139

High Scalability

JULY 15, 2021

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High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2021

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High Scalability

MARCH 18, 2021

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