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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. If you replicate from one server to the next, are you replicating what you need? Take some to check how the server is being accessed, as you do not want a project to use the root access for all queries. Welcome to 2023! First, how are your backups?

Database 87

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 87

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. Compare Costs.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

JULY 20, 2023

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.

Network 62

Network Performance Latency Servers 62

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. We help you configure your MySQL deployment to optimize your performance based on the size of your databases.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

JULY 31, 2023

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice. In the first case, all the heuristics are kept at the application layer, and the database has little or no effect on the data quality.

Database 74

Database Open Source Servers Code 74

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

It is an open-source tool suite, written in Python, for managing high availability of PostgreSQL clusters. On the first node, Patroni initializes the database, obtains the leader lock from DCS, and ensures the node is being run as the master. Standby Server Tests. Reboot the server. Master/Primary Server Tests.

Availability 277

Availability Servers Network Open Source 277

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

Here we present a list of 10 open-source Kubernetes tools to make your SRE and Ops teams more effective to achieve their service level objectives. Ark comes with an in-cluster service (Ark server) and CLI (Ark client). Ark server performs the actual backup, validates it and loads backup files in cloud object storage.

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB. We will discuss snappy and zstd for data block and zstd compression in a network. I am using PSMDB 6.0.4

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. 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.

Open Source 290

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 290

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Efficiency 99

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. It’s renowned for its dependability, effectiveness, and simplicity.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

Availability 78

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 3, 2020

Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. It’s also a good way to determine which components of the database can be enhanced or optimized to increase your efficiency and performance.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Metrics Servers Database 164

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry , the open source observability tool, has become the go-to standard for instrumenting custom applications to collect observability telemetry data. This allows us to quickly tell whether the network link may be saturated or the processor is running at its limit. And that’s where Dynatrace OneAgent comes in.

Metrics 163

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 163

Dynatrace

AUGUST 18, 2022

Security vulnerabilities are weaknesses in applications, operating systems, networks, and other IT services and infrastructure that would allow an attacker to compromise a system, steal data, or otherwise disrupt IT operations. For example, an attacker could exploit a misconfigured firewall rule to gain access to servers on your network.

Traffic 157

Traffic Java Network DevOps 157

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. Redis™, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

Azure 100

Azure Availability Open Source Virtualization 100

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. What is replication lag?

Latency 79

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 79

Scalegrid

MARCH 12, 2019

In Part II, we’re introducing you to an alternative open source tool, Replication Manager from 2ndQuadrant, to be closely followed by Part III where we dive into our third alternative, Patroni by Zalando. When a server is configured, it needs to be registered with repmgr using repmgr primary/standby register command.

Availability 147

Availability Servers Open Source Database 147

Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2019

Redis , short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May 10, 2009. Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. Redis List Use Cases.

Cache 232

Cache Ecommerce Social Media Database 232

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 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

At the same time, open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, increasing the risk of application vulnerabilities. RASP capabilities aim to close the gap left by application security testing and network perimeter controls such as web application firewalls (WAFs).

Tuning 212

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 212

Official Blog - World Web Technology

AUGUST 27, 2023

It is a server-side scripting language that is highly secure, open-source, and versatile. Mostly, web servers are created with PHP. In PHP, code is directly executed on the server and generates HTML to send to the client. PHP is an open-source programming language that allows businesses to use it for free.

Development 98

Development Ecommerce Open Source Website 98

Official Blog - World Web Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

PHP is a popular server-side programming language due to its simplicity of use, vast functionality, and robust community support. PHP is also used to build and run popular social networking sites like Tumbler, Facebook, MailChimp, and Digg. Regarding command-line and server-side scripts, PHP is easy for users to understand and use.

Website 59

Website Development Open Source Database 59

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Source: “Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases These are the words of Bob Diachenko, one of the most respected cybersecurity researchers in relation to a “Meowing” attack, which destroyed between 1000-4000 databases around the world. Thankfully, LDAP can fill many of these gaps.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 40

Percona

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues.

Database 91

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 91

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Prometheus is an open-source software toolkit used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database with flexible queries and real-time alerting. It then compresses and stores them in a time-series database on a regular cadence. How to collect Prometheus metrics.

Metrics 189

Metrics Infrastructure Open Source Monitoring 189

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. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Percona

MARCH 8, 2023

Over the years of being a DBA, I had to deal with all kinds of problems in the database. Still, the users keep falling into this trap, maybe because of a poorly configured database, a change in the application components, or just because of a sudden increase of connections in the application. A lot has been written about this error.

C++ 91

C++ Database Servers Open Source 91

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes. Traces represent causally related distributed events on a distributed system, showing, for example, how a request flows from the user to the database.

Virtualization 158

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 158

Percona

JULY 27, 2023

is an evolution of the MySQL server and related software. While this is a great idea for security reasons, there will be many more posts on websites like Stackoverflow bemoaning that their old code and connector can not connect to the new version of the database. Do you have suspicious group replication servers showing up?

Servers 82

Servers Open Source Tuning Cache 82

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

There are certain situations when an agent based approach isn’t possible, such as with network or storage devices, or a very old OS. The Platform Extensions Services team is pleased to announce the open sourcing of our implementations for DNS lookups, port checks, and ping in GitHub. Platform extensions.

Infrastructure 151

Infrastructure Monitoring Open Source Traffic 151

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. And did I mention they are open source?!

Cache 96

Cache Database Virtualization Servers 96