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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

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.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

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Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 87

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Most applications communicate with databases to, for example, pull a catalog entry or submit a new record when an order is placed. To achieve this, there must be a healthy connection between the application and the database. Application servers use connection pools to maintain connections with the databases that they communicate with.

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Traffic Performance Database Metrics 139

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Running containers : Docker Engine is a container runtime that runs in almost any environment: Mac and Windows PCs, Linux and Windows servers, the cloud, and on edge devices. What is Docker? Networking.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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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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

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

Because of Dynatrace’s Real User Monitoring (RUM) capability, and insights from our AI engine, Davis, they were able to quickly prioritize and fix the issues to ensure their employees had an optimal remote work experience. Facilitating an understanding of traffic patterns and potential traffic spikes helps maintain customer experience.

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Traffic Government Database Infrastructure 204

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Likewise, you can scale down when your application experiences decreased traffic. For example, as traffic increases, costs will too. Analyze your resource consumption and traffic patterns.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Such scans enable teams to detect SQL injection attacks that allow someone to maliciously inject code into a database query. Scanning the runtime environment of your services can help to identify unusual network traffic patterns. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) lists over 175,000 known vulnerabilities.

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Traffic Java Network DevOps 168

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. Use reduction at scale requires a cultural shift, and engineers must consider the cost as they think of memory or bandwidth as another deployment KPI.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

We started seeing signs of scale issues, like: Slowness during peak traffic moments like 12 AM UTC, leading to increased operational burden. At Netflix, the peak traffic load can be a few orders of magnitude higher than the average load. Hence, the system has to withstand bursts in traffic while still maintaining the SLO requirements.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

As Redis stores data, it supports extensive data key and string lengths, up to 512 MB, while offering complex data structures like: lists sets sorted sets hashes bitmaps These features make Redis much more than a basic caching engine; it is a versatile tool capable of supporting diverse data models. Data transfer technology.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

A service-level objective ( SLO ) is the new contract between business, DevOps, and site reliability engineers (SREs). These four dimensions apply to any layer in the technical stack, such as front-end, databases, and external services. The rows thereafter report the health of front-end, databases, and external services.

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Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 275

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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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

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. Prodicle is one of the many applications that is at the exciting intersection of connecting the world of content productions to Netflix Studio Engineering. Things got hairy.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

Analytics 216

Analytics Metrics Media Monitoring 216

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Dynatrace PurePath technology captures and analyzes transactions end to end across every tier of your application technology stack, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. Impact on disk space.

Processing 157

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 157

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. mongos --configdb <configReplSetName>/<cfg1.example.net:27019>,<cfg2.example.net:27019>,<cfg3.example.net:27019>

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

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 Traffic Manager. Azure Batch. Azure DB for PostgreSQL.

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Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 150

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.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Over the years we’ve learned from on-call engineers about the pain points of application monitoring: too many alerts, too many dashboards to scroll through, and too much configuration and maintenance. Regional traffic evacuations. A regional traffic shift means one region ends up with zero traffic while another region has double.

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 210

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

TDE is a database encryption technique that encrypts data at the column or table level, as opposed to full-disk encryption (FDE), which encrypts the entire database. For example, in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you need to create the key in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and set it in the StorageClass: apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1

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Storage AWS Cloud Database 118

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

We analyzed these processing steps to identify “boundaries” and grouped them into different domains, which in turn became the building blocks of the microservices we engineered. The results are saved to a database so they can be reused. Footnotes Formerly known as Media Cloud Engineering/MCE team. 264, AV1, etc.).

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 83

Cache Latency Traffic Database 83

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Data compression MongoDB offers various block compression methods used by the WiredTiger storage engine, like snappy, zlib, and zstd. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

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. What is workload in cloud computing? This trend features running multiple distinct variants simultaneously, each relying on services delivered by various vendors.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Network monitoring Network monitoring analyzes network traffic logs to look for anomalies such as high bandwidth usage, packet flow, and atypical patterns that might indicate a cyberattack.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 225

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system. 8 ranked database on DB-Engines with a score of 144.08. Let us take a closer look at the data types that exist in Redis. 38,094 GitHub users have starred Redis. #8

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

High Scalability

OCTOBER 5, 2018

antirez : "After 20 years as a software engineer, I've started commenting heavily. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. I used to comment sparingly. What made me change was a combination of reading the SQLite and Redis codebases" <3 false myth: code should be auto-explaining.

Internet 156

Internet Internet Scalability Software Engineering 156

High Scalability

JUNE 4, 2019

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Java Metrics Software Engineering Traffic 116