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Reducing Network Latency and Improving Read Performance With CockroachDB and PolyScale.ai

DZone

PolyScale operates a global network of PoPs (Points of Presence). Think of PoPs as regional database connections. This versatility provides a cost-effective solution to reduce global network latency by bringing the database closer to the end user.

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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LinkedIn Migrates Espresso to HTTP2 and Reduces Connections by 88% and Latency by 75%

InfoQ

LinkedIn was able to dramatically improve the scalability and performance of its Espresso database by migrating it from HTTP1.1 to HTTP2, resulting in a reduction in the number of connections, latency, and garbage collection times. By Rafal Gancarz

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Resilience Pattern: Circuit Breaker

DZone

A circuit breaker is a component that monitors the health of a dependency, such as a remote service, an external API, or a database. A dependency can become unhealthy or unavailable for various reasons, such as network failures, high latency, timeouts, errors, or overload.

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Bandwidth or Latency: When to Optimise for Which

CSS Wizardry

When it comes to network performance, there are two main limiting factors that will slow you down: bandwidth and latency. Latency is defined as…. how long it takes for a bit of data to travel across the network from one node or endpoint to another. and reduction in latency. and reduction in latency.

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How To Measure the Network Impact on PostgreSQL Performance

Percona

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But let’s see what the wait events look like if the network slows down.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

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.

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