Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

Cache 204

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 204

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

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

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

Both MySQL and PostgreSQL do the basics very well From a high level, one relational database management system is pretty much like every other relational database management system. It does not follow the SQL Standard as closely as other databases, and some useful functions such as MERGE() are missing.

Database 119

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 119

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The lock manager (LockMgr) is designed to track partitioned and non-partitioned locks. A handful of lock types (Database, Metadata, LOGIN_STATS, …) are eligible for lock partitioning. For example: When ‘use database’ takes place the session acquires a shared lock on database.

Servers 103

Servers Database Scalability Tuning 103

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

Monitoring 98

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 98

Percona

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of your server in a production environment. Percona XtraBackup 8.1

C++ 92

C++ Open Source Servers Database 92

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages? In this case, THP is enabled.

Database 87

Database Servers Open Source C++ 87

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

When we ask SQL Server to change some aspect of a column's definition, it needs to check that the existing data is compatible with the new definition. Depending on the type of change and the configuration of the database, an ALTER COLUMN command will need to perform one of the following actions: Change metadata in system tables only.

Servers 63

Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

It should be noted that while the technical aspects of the upgrade process are beyond the scope of this blog post, it is crucial to create a testing environment to verify the upgrade before proceeding to upgrade your production servers, particularly with MySQL 8.

Open Source 89

Open Source Best Practices Servers Database 89

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Find more information in the Telemetry on Percona Server for MySQL document.

Open Source 79

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 79

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. 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.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

Percona

MAY 16, 2023

As a database administrator, have you ever been in a situation when your database confronted a brute force attack? The connection control plugin library allows administrators to introduce an increasing delay in the server response to connections after a designated number of consecutive unsuccessful login attempts.

Servers 118

Servers Database Monitoring Testing 118

Percona

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As MySQL database administrators, we are well aware of the significance of implementing a primary key within a table. Primary keys play an indispensable role in sound database design by uniquely identifying individual rows and significantly enhancing data retrieval, manipulation, and overall system performance.

Database 99

Database Engineering Best Practices Open Source 99

Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The auto-increment feature, which generates unique values for primary key columns, is an integral part of the database’s design. this enhancement ensures that the maximum auto-increment counter value persists between server restarts, providing enhanced consistency and reliability in data management. Compared to MySQL 5.7,

Servers 110

Servers Storage Database Open Source 110

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

Here’s the update: Improve architectural design to eliminate SSO bottleneck risk [In progress] Security and access are critical aspects of our architecture, and as such, there are many areas we’re looking to improve. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

Social Media 130

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Scalegrid

JUNE 18, 2019

In this blog, we’ll show you how to connect to a MongoDB server configured with self-signed certificates for SSL using both the Ruby MongoDB driver and the popular Object-Document-Mapper (ODM) mongoid. servers.mongodirector.com:27017/test?replicaSet=RS-example-0&ssl=true" The user's database roles. for this example.

C++ 100

C++ Servers Database Network 100

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! has hours of system design content. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! has hours of system design content. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! has hours of system design content. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. Make sure you design the data types correctly while planning for the future growth of the table. ibd -rw-r --.

Open Source 87

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 87

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

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. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. PostgreSQL’s Tuneable Parameters. shared_buffer.

Tuning 55

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 55

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Most recently, in StackOverflow’s 2022 Stack Developer Survey , PostgreSQL took a slight lead over MySQL (46.48% to 45.68%) as the most popular database platform among professional developers. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Database security is crucial to protecting sensitive information stored in a database. A critical aspect is authentication, which refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to access the database. PostgreSQL server authentication refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to connect to the PostgreSQL server.

Database 123

Database Servers Testing Programming 123

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

Recently, we performed a database engine major version upgrade in one of our customers’ environments from MySQL 5.7.26 To begin with, we upgraded all the database nodes from 5.7.26 Physical backups are being taken using Percona XtraBackup (PXB) so it does not lock the database during the backup. With MySQL 5.7, –lock-ddl.

Database 73

Database Servers Open Source Engineering 73

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

DECEMBER 9, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Testlodge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

API testing focuses on what’s known as the business layer of the application, meaning the testing methods will be entirely different compared to the standard GUI testing. It will also act as a flag (true/false), on which the Presentation layer or the Database layer will be then updated. What to Test for in APIs?

Testing 58

Testing Testing Tools Servers Code 58

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Gone are the days when automation testers had to learn coding to write test scripts. Enter codeless automation testing, which is one of the latest software trends to look out for.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Testing Analytics Mobile 52

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements. It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. Testing Failover Behavior.

Testing 55

Testing Network Database Servers 55

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As a result, it becomes increasingly important to protect the confidentiality of information to prevent data leaks and facilitate easy access to relevant data sources and tools for the related teams without having to sift through unrelated databases or environmental data. to monitor and diagnose. +50

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Metrics Monitoring Database Engineering 106