Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. Most Popular PostgreSQL VACUUM Strategies.

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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. Nearly every vendor at Kubecon and every person we spoke to had some form of a multi-cloud requirement or strategy.

Cloud 83

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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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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. What is Prometheus? Observability engineering success!

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Percona

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We discussed how roles can inherit permissions from other roles, simplifying access control in your database. Access control: Tailor access permissions for child roles based on their inheritance, ensuring a granular and secure access control strategy. But what if you need to discover which roles inherit from a specific role?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

AWS speaker: Aditi Suresh, Customer speaker: Brian Rowe SUS205: Slowing down deforestation by using AI, ML, and open source data Organizations worldwide are developing solutions to evaluate, monitor, or predict land use and cover change in order to identify potential carbon credit projects, deforestation trends, and future wildfire risk areas.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. 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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Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at MySQL and related conferences, and regularly posts on the Percona Database Performance Blog. Register Now.

Architecture 42

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 42

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. One way to verify a column’s number of distinct values is by querying the pg_stats view in our database. Tune the random_page_cost parameter. Tune the effective_cache_size parameter. Next is the table definition.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006.

Open Source 43

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” But 18% already have applications in production. 54% of AI users expect AI’s biggest benefit will be greater productivity.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. With this batch style approach, several issues have surfaced like data movement is tightly coupled with database tables, database schema is not an exact mapping of business data model, and data being stale given it is not real time etc.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Triggering repairs at any time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Triggering repairs at any time.

Database 197

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It has become a de facto standard for perceptual quality measurements within Netflix and, thanks to its open-source nature , throughout the video industry. For example, VQS relies on the Netflix Media Database (NMDB) to store and index the quality scores, while the Reloaded system uses a mix of non-queryable data models and files.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171