Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Summary There is a multitude of database metrics that we can collect and use to help us understand database and server resource consumption, as well as overall usage. This data can include hardware statistics, such as measures of CPU or memory consumed over time.

Metrics 66

Metrics Database Hardware Servers 66

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. You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Let’s see the results.

Cache 99

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 99

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

After some time of receiving these messages, eventually, they hit performance issues to the point that the server becomes unresponsive for a few minutes. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. After that, things went back to normal.

AWS 117

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 117

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

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. PMM monitors the MySQL uptime: show global status like 'uptime'; Indicates the amount of time (seconds) the MySQL server has been running since the last restart.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. A new record entering a database table. What is AWS Lambda? How does AWS Lambda work?

Lambda 179

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 179

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. It is also important to monitor your server’s memory usage regularly to ensure that it is not being exhausted by the buffer pool.

Social Media 119

Social Media Database Servers Cache 119

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

The agency executed one of the largest email migrations from on-premises Exchange servers to Microsoft Office 365 — moving almost 480,000 mailboxes to the cloud. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers. We started out by instrumenting 2,000 servers overnight.

Cloud 176

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 176

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A lot of people surmise that TTFB is merely time spent on the server, but that is only a small fraction of the true extent of things. TTFB isn’t just time spent on the server, it is also the time spent getting from our device to the sever and back again (carrying, that’s right, the first byte of data!). Expect closer to 75ms.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As I embark on my first PASS Summit in a few years, it is hard to contain my excitement about the newest version of SQL Server. As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features.

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 78

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 78

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

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. This can help to split large data sets into smaller ones stored in multiple servers.

Open Source 86

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 86

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 90

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

HammerDB included a graphical performance metrics view for the Oracle database only. HammerDB includes the same functionality for PostgreSQL enabling the user to drill down on database metrics in real time. include/server -I/opt/postgresql-14.1/include/internal Introducing the PostgreSQL performance metrics viewer.

Metrics 62

Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

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. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

J. Paul Reed

AUGUST 7, 2023

The “root cause” [sic] was eventually identified and it was related subtle differences in server provisioning. Even though that remediation task was pretty minor — tweaking some low-level hardware settings on each physical server and rebooting — and could have been done quickly enough, there was intense debate on whether it should be done.

Engineering 52

Engineering Hardware Games Infrastructure 52

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This is a copy of the data, on an idle server (8 cores, 64GB RAM), with plenty of disk space (well over 6TB). ALTER DATABASE OCopy ADD FILE ( name = N'CCI_8' , size = 250000 , filename = 'K:Datao_cci_8.mdf' ALTER DATABASE OCopy ADD FILE ( name = N'CCI_P_8' , size = 250000 , filename = 'K:Datao_p_8.mdf' I just took the 3.75

Database 70

Database Storage Hardware Efficiency 70

SQL Performance

JULY 3, 2019

A recent consulting engagement was focused on blocking issues inside of SQL Server that were causing delays in processing user requests from the application. Depending on which DMV you look at for SQL Server, a session can have a few different statuses. So, we had to dig in further. Understanding Session Status.

Servers 64

Servers Hardware Code Virtualization 64

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use.

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. This helps developers decide when to increase server disk space and power or whether or not using a virtual cloud server is optimal.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

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

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. Due to virtualization system-level monitoring doesn’t help much anymore and may be misleading – so getting information from application and database servers becomes very important. Traditionally monitoring was on the system level.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. Instead all of the client servers are connecting to the TP monitor.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer uses a lightweight RPC-level tracing system to collect request traces and aggregate them in a Cassandra database. When a QoS violation is predicted to occur and a culprit microservice located, Seer uses a lower level tracing infrastructure with hardware monitoring primitives to identify the reason behind the QoS violation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45