All Things Distributed

JULY 4, 2019

A few months ago, I wrote the post " Amazon Aurora ascendant: How we designed acloud-native relational database ," and now I'm excited to share some news about the people behind the service.

Systems 126

Systems Development Hardware Database 126

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. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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

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

Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before open source was available, there was little to no interoperability between computer systems. If you ran IBM hardware, then you ran IBM software, and that handy calendaring program that ran on Data General or Digital hardware/software was unavailable to you. We are instrumental in helping launch a Data on Kubernetes track.

Open Source 114

Open Source Software Software Hardware 114

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

Best Practices 89

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. You will likely need to write code to integrate systems and handle complex tasks or incoming network requests. A new record entering a database table.

Lambda 181

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 181

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

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

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

A software tester’s work life includes making sure that systems that have been designed to achieve specific results behave exactly as they should. These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. What is Configuration Testing? An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security.

Systems 47

Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

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 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. Results in CloudWatch show we were right: The reduction during the last couple of weeks is more than 50% of IOPS, which is pretty decent now, and we haven’t changed the hardware at all.

AWS 121

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 121

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 201

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 201

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 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

There’s no other competing software that can provide this level of value with minimum effort and optimal hardware utilization that can scale up to web-scale! I’d like to stress the lean approach to hardware that our customers require for running Dynatrace Managed. Support for high memory instances.

Performance 150

Performance Hardware Java Storage 150

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

VA also used Dynatrace to instrument its Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy Application, a mission-critical app with a heavily distributed database hosted in seven locations across the U.S. In the past, severe database issues seriously hurt system performance, causing delayed shipping times for prescriptions.

Cloud 179

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 179

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

Cloud 81

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 81

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. System Setup Architecture The following diagram summarizes the architecture description: Figure 1: Event-sourcing architecture of the Device Management Platform.

Latency 213

Latency Traffic Transportation Hardware 213

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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 as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

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 89

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. ChatGPT: The innodb_redo_log_capacity parameter specifies the maximum size of the InnoDB redo log buffer, which is used to store changes made to the database before they are written to disk. What could it be?

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Social Media Database Servers Cache 123

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The next layer is operating system platforms, what flavor of Linux, what version of Windows etc. This is one of the key teams that people have been talking about recently.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

However, this blog is written from the database perspective; hence, I would not prefer to dive into those scenarios as they are very high-level programming concepts. In this section, I will focus on a scenario in the PostgreSQL database that causes segmentation fault. Here, any other path can be used instead of /var/crash.

Programming 85

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 85

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. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Testlodge

MARCH 21, 2023

Black box testing focuses on the requirements to ensure the system responds as expected, according to the documentation. White box testing examines the system’s internal structure and architecture. Black box testing focuses on the requirements to ensure the system responds as expected, according to the documentation.

Testing 67

Testing Architecture Hardware Code 67

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 94

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 94

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. First, we have a shift to centrally managed systems. Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. -New Architectures (this post). – New Technologies.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Compared to web-scale platform use of ML, enterprise applications tend to be built by smaller teams with deeper domain expertise, but less deep algorithmic or systems expertise. Three big bets.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

Storage 90

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 90

J. Paul Reed

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. An action item was suggested to go back and fix the provisioning issue that “caused” the incident.

Engineering 52

Engineering Hardware Games Infrastructure 52