Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2024

Every hardware, software, cloud infrastructure component, container, open source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity within modern environments. Causes can run the gamut, from coding errors and database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues.

Infrastructure 205

Infrastructure Efficiency Government Transportation 205

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Extending relational query processing with ML inference , Karanasos, CIDR’10. The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). An INSERT INTO model.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 196

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. A producer creates the message, and a consumer processes it. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 195

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 195

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Although it can hardly be said that NoSQL movement brought fundamentally new techniques into distributed data processing, it triggered an avalanche of practical studies and real-life trials of different combinations of protocols and algorithms. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 179

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions and automatically manage all the computing resources required for those processes. Real-time file processing, for quickly indexing files, processing logs, and validating content. A new record entering a database table.

Lambda 178

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 178

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. In essence, it establishes permissions within a Kubernetes cluster.

Efficiency 107

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 107

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 163

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 163

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. Fault-tolerance.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a web server?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. 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. Amazon RDS replicates all databases in the source DB instance. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 123

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 123

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Think of a user login which requires your back-end systems to validate user credentials and query required user profile information from the backend databases.

Cache 195

Cache Architecture Database Government 195

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021. As well as the video, there’s a long podcast where I discuss them with Mik Kersten.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

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.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. Let’s look at some questions I did that a MySQL DBA usually needs to answer in an interview process. I adjusted my datadir in my.cnf file, but my database is not starting. What could it be?

Social Media 124

Social Media Database Servers Cache 124

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Network or connection error. Network latency. Database connectivity. Hardware resources. Processing and generating the response. Network Latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. Network Connectivity: Establish a reliable network connection between the primary and replica servers. Start the replica server’s replication process.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X 25.84 - Total 21.04 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. The bigger the database, the bigger the damage from a leak. However, this is still not ideal from a security perspective.

Database 83

Database Servers Storage Strategy 83

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

MongoDB is an important database, and this paper explains the tunable (per-operation) consistency models that MongoDB provides and how they are implemented under the covers. Microsoft have a paper describing their new recovery mechanism in Azure SQL Database , the key feature being that it can recovery in constant time.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

In databases you probably know it as stored procedures. Entry/exit in/out of V8 contexts is less expensive than hardware-based isolation mechanisms, keeping request processing latency low and throughput high. In from of them is a networking layer, and the in-memory storage layer holds the actual data.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99