Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. Since 2015, the Soldo business spend management platform has provided companies with a simple and efficient way to better spend and control company money. to be efficient and fast at what we do,” Domenella said.

Design 213

Design Innovation DevOps Open Source 213

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

In practice, a hybrid cloud operates by melding resources and services from multiple computing environments, which necessitates effective coordination, orchestration, and integration to work efficiently. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Minimizes downtime and increases efficiency.

Infrastructure 196

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 196

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. Streamlining the CI/CD process to ensure optimal efficiency. This improves the current project and paves the way for future innovation.

Engineering 222

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 222

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

One very common problem when trying to optimize a database environment is index usage. Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification.

Virtualization 78

Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 78

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Azure Batch.

Azure 146

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 146

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search. This is also known as root-cause analysis. Indexing overhead.

Analytics 211

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 211

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Getting precise root cause analysis when dealing with several layers of virtualization in a containerized world. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves. Too much data requested from a database. Reliability.

Azure 184

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 184

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. As such, it is generally recommended to disable THP for most database workloads.

Database 90

Database Servers Open Source C++ 90

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker. This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023.

Database 71

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 71

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. Developers are often strongly discouraged from holding a database connection while other operations take place.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search. This is also known as root-cause analysis. Indexing overhead.

Analytics 178

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 178

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds. Developers need efficient methods to store, traverse, and query these relationships.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

Azure 136

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 136

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Together with cloud deployment technologies, monitoring , API management, and integration technologies, microservices are an agile and efficient way to deploy large, complex enterprise applications. Additionally, typical SOA models use larger relational databases. Tips for migrating from monolithic to microservices architecture.

Architecture 196

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 196

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. These technologies can answer questions, provide customer support, or even complete transactions.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The most successful organizations know that developing and deploying strategic workloads to the cloud in an efficient and effective manner is a great place to start innovating. No need for one agent for the OS, one for the database, one for some microservice etc. A single agent per host can handle your application monitoring needs.

Innovation 149

Innovation Speed Virtualization Infrastructure 149

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. The concept is like text messaging — a feature most mobile phone users understand.

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 196

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. The concept is like text messaging — a feature most mobile phone users understand.

Monitoring 195

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 195

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. In the past, severe database issues seriously hurt system performance, causing delayed shipping times for prescriptions. Operations teams can run more efficiently.

Cloud 174

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 174

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Containers are portable, self-contained operating environments that include applications and the dependencies they need to run, such as databases, middleware, and frameworks. Cloud platforms are fully virtualized and, consequently, highly automated. The effect is to turbocharge developer collaboration, efficiency, and productivity.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel parameter determining how aggressively the Linux virtual machine swaps pages between memory and the swap space on the system’s disk. Therefore, disabling Transparent Huge Pages for database servers is advisable to avoid this situation. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Servers 115

Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 115

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Manual tasks like shutting down virtual machines in bulk or creating database backups can be error prone. Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that enables you to quickly and efficiently create automated data pipelines—without writing any code.

Azure 153

Azure Cloud Tuning Monitoring 153

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. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems, playing a pivotal role in the functionality and performance of web applications.

Performance 52

Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Citrix is a sophisticated, efficient, and highly scalable application delivery platform that is itself comprised of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of servers. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. Comparison of these metrics between VDAs characterizes load balancing efficiency.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems. Often, teams don’t have access to the underlying virtual machine, so log data can be priceless for troubleshooting,” Franczak said. “In

Azure 170

Azure AWS DevOps Cloud 170

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. Also, in the case of multi-Primary, the writes will be distributed by transaction. This is it.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

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

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Setting Up MySQL Replication – Step by Step: Backup Data: Before starting, create a backup of your primary database to prevent data loss during setup.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It is designed to run in specific environments, like Java Virtual Machine for instance. The ability to create concise and readable code databases with Scala is why it is so popular in the world of programming. The Scala language uses the actor concurrency mode, which means it is both more efficient and modern.

Java 100

Java Performance Programming Virtualization 100