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.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 89

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Continuous cloud monitoring with automation provides clear visibility into the performance and availability of websites, files, applications, servers, and network resources. Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. Cloud storage monitoring.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 222

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 93

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?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. It uses a hash table to manage these pairs, divided into fixed-size buckets with linked lists for key-value storage. Data transfer technology.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. They also ensure that backup strategies adhere to industry and legal compliance requirements.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies.

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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.”

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. Key Takeaways Understanding PostgreSQL hostname is essential for successful database connections. Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security.

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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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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

Therefore, establishing a strong backup strategy is essential to ensure data security and minimize potential disruptions. A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. Looking for a MongoDB backup solution? What is a full backup?

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Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 69

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

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. for unplanned downtime, resource saturation, network intrusion. Dynatrace news. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. This failure in replication could happen due to crashes, network partitions, or other situations where failover occurs.

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Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

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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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Data Placement. System Coordination. Read/Write latency.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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 178

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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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. MySQL is one of the most popular database management systems, playing a pivotal role in the functionality and performance of web applications.

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Performance Storage Social Media Database 52

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.

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Database Servers Storage Strategy 80

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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Blockchain is a payment system supported by a distributed database or ledger that records all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. Blockchain is an innovative technology because it is a distributed ledger that becomes the data storage medium for all business-related activities.

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Blockchain Innovation Efficiency Technology 52

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. Optimizing Based On Network Usage. Cache first, then network. Let’s look at each one.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 125

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

We’ll also discuss the costs and benefits of CDNs and dedicated file storage solutions. Together, we’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. Part 3 : Models, Admin, And Harnessing The Relational Database.

Media 70

Media Cache Storage AWS 70

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Under the covers, it’s a sophisticated distributed system built on the tenets of cloud-native systems: Disaggregated (remote) storage, with read or write operations performed via RPCs, and immutable data (append only files). Procella achieves high scalability and efficiency by segregating storage (in Colossus) from compute (on Borg).

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Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The merge strategy should work differently for the mergeable and non-mergeable components, so we need a way to tell the two cases apart. Not every element in a composite data type may itself be mergeable though. Consider a map data type which may have non-mergeable keys , and mergeable values.

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C++ Storage Benchmarking Efficiency 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Database & functional migration. While most of our cloud & platform partners have their own dependency analysis tooling, most of them focus on basic dependency detection based on network connection analysis between hosts. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies.

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Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.Â

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

Modern hybrid applications typically utilize public cloud components, including content delivery networks and cloud storage. In the case that DNS monitoring finds the master server unavailable, DNS can be used to seamlessly redirect database requests to predetermined, available servers. Overcome the unexpected with managed DNS.

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Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

The US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy lays out a â??Cloud strategy which compels US federal agencies to consider Cloud Computing first as the target for their IT operations: To harness the benefits of cloud computing, we have instituted a Cloud First policy. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Cloud First.

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Interoperability with Hadoop.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Whether you're scaling storage solutions like S3 buckets, compute resources like EKS clusters, or content delivery mechanisms via CDNs, Terraform offers a streamlined approach.

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Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). Planning, planning, planning.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

It might be tempting to get into quick "low-hanging-fruits"-optimizations early on — and eventually it might be a good strategy for quick wins — but it will be very hard to keep performance a priority without planning and setting realistic, company-tailored performance goals. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet). 150ms RTT, 1.5

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Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

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