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.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

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.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

If you’re evaluating container orchestration software to manage containerized applications at scale, you may be wondering about the differences between OpenShift and Kubernetes. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

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Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 215

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report found that 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. This demand for rapid innovation is propelling organizations to adopt agile methodologies and DevOps principles to deliver software more efficiently and securely. 54% reported deploying updates every two hours or less.

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DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 228

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. In this blog, we will discuss both data and network-level compression offered in MongoDB.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 108

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.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

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.

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Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

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.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Unlike other competitors in the market, the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform is purpose-built for dynamic enterprise cloud environments such as AWS, with full automation and AI at the core. The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Amazon Database Migration Service.

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AWS Cloud IoT Database 274

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news.

Infrastructure 209

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 209

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. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 209

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. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 208

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 208

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

On October 24th, the Percona Kubernetes Squad held the first Ask-me-Anything (AMA) session to address inquiries regarding the utilization of Kubernetes for database deployment. Q1: When is it appropriate to use Kubernetes for databases, and when is it not recommended? ” This talk covers this topic exactly.

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Open Source Hardware Storage Database 86

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.

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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. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Cloud 119

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An essential observability engineering tool Prometheus is an open-source telemetry database service that records and stores custom software metrics and provides a standardized interface to pull (in Prometheus terms, “scrape”) data using HTTP requests. To set the stage, let’s have a quick recap of what Prometheus is and what it does.

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 186

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

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.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 79

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice. In this case, you can be sure that Main really failed, and it is not a network split situation.

Storage 120

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 120

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices. Get started today with Percona Backup for MongoDB. What is a full backup?

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

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.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Logs can also be used to represent event data.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 163

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

AWS Certified Database – Specialty: Database specialists with deep knowledge of relational and non-relational databases and some AWS experience might want to check out this certification. However, AWS recommends getting the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate or an equivalent Associate-level cert beforehand.

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AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 218

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. And the database is unusable until the restore is done. Our tests showed physical database restores up to 5x faster than the logical ones. The speed of the physical restoration comes down to how fast we can copy (download) data from the remote storage.

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Speed Storage AWS Azure 80

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 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. The heavy lifting is deferred to the back office.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

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.

Database 80

Database Servers Storage Strategy 80

Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

Here’s the shopping cart part of the entity relationship diagram we’ll print out and keep at our desk 2 like a holy article of software design scripture: We’ve also realized that a cart has some behavior associated with it as well, operations like AddToCart() , SaveForLater() , and Checkout(). It gets worse.

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Systems Cache Strategy Database 98

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This type of backup is suitable for large, important databases that need to be recovered quickly when problems occur. Physical backups are the backups that consist of raw copies of the directories and files that store database contents. The write speed is too slow, usually a sign of IO congestion or network congestion.

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C++ Servers Storage Speed 105

All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. Comments ().

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Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 71

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. Impressive!

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52