Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. Since the beginning, we created centralized monitoring and leveraged open source products, like Nagios, to create custom controls, and Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”

Design 217

Design Innovation DevOps Open Source 217

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

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

This approach can determine malicious activity and block it by monitoring the flow of data within the application, all the way from the user to the database. During the development stage, vulnerabilities can arise when developers use third-party open-source code or make an error in application logic.

Monitoring 212

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices 212

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

In addition to providing visibility for core Azure services like virtual machines, load balancers, databases, and application services, we’re happy to announce support for the following 10 new Azure services, with many more to come soon: Virtual Machines (classic ones). Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Azure Batch.

Azure 148

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 148

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. You haven’t detected that there’s a shortage of disk space on the virtualization host (or its shared storage).

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. As such, it is generally recommended to disable THP for most database workloads.

Database 87

Database Servers Open Source C++ 87

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

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 98

Cache Database Virtualization Servers 98

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Open source tools which have an open development model that allows your team to make contributions may be a better approach.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

Monitoring 200

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 200

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this scenario, message queues coordinate large numbers of microservices, which operate autonomously without the need to provision virtual machines or allocate hardware resources. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Percona

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve asynchronous replication automatic source failover when our replica is a Percona Server for MySQL (PS) and the source is a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) cluster, using virtual IP (VIP) managed by Keepalived. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Servers 86

Servers Virtualization Open Source Scalability 86

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel parameter determining how aggressively the Linux virtual machine swaps pages between memory and the swap space on the system’s disk. Therefore, disabling Transparent Huge Pages for database servers is advisable to avoid this situation. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Servers 112

Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 112

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

Programming 83

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 83

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

As a solution, teams often adopt open source observability tools like OpenTelemetry to gain situational awareness of their cloud-native environments. Open source observability tools help address cloud complexity. Using open-source tools to tame cloud complexity can lead to data silos.

Open Source 173

Open Source Metrics Cloud Tuning 173

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2020

It’s free and open source. First, create a virtual environment, named djangodev. Now to get into your virtual environment, you need to get it activated; source ~/.virtualenvs/djangodev/bin/activate. If you get any error running with source you can make use of this alternative command, ~/.virtualenvs/djangodev/bin/activate.

Virtualization 143

Virtualization Database Code Processing 143

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 Redis on Azure 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 37

Azure Cloud Open Source Virtualization 37

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important? Why would this be the case?

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

HammerDB

JULY 14, 2021

However, as the two databases diverged from a shared common codebase, this presented a challenge in that it was not possible to modify the workload for MySQL or MariaDB without also changing the other. Checking database library for MariaDB Error: failed to load mariatcl - couldn't load file "/home/HammerDB-4.2/lib/mariatcl0.1/libmariatcl0.1.so":

Testing 57

Testing C++ Virtualization Tuning 57

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. Microsoft has helped simplify things by creating multiple types of virtual machines. The various types are: General purpose – Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, small to medium databases. VM Sizing Considerations.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure 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 23

Azure Cloud Open Source Cache 23

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The work includes changes to the CHERI ISA, the C compiler, the C language runtime, the virtual memory APIs, and the CheriBSD kernel. On a context switch the kernel saves and restores user-thread register capability state, and updates virtual-physical mappings. The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. hammerdb>source innodbtest1.tcl. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16 cat innodbtest1.tcl

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc. due to unstable network connections. These network disconnections cause unnecessary delays and hinder the testing process.

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

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.”

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In classic Extract, transform, and load (ETL) model, we store entities in their corresponding application databases i.e. as rows in the relational tables. Then we perform frequent batch ETL from application databases to a data warehouse. Challenges. Obviously, ELT approach has its own challenges.

Big Data 40

Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Leigh Capili (DevAdv) demos how to launch apps from Git using Kubernetes orchestration, Ignite virtualization, and GitOps management.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Leigh Capili (DevAdv) demos how to launch apps from Git using Kubernetes orchestration, Ignite virtualization, and GitOps management.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

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. Sysdig instruments your physical and virtual machines at the OS level by installing into the Linux kernel and capturing system calls and other OS events. Kube-ops-view. Telepresence.

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. So far, their prediction seems to be spot-on.

Open Source 250

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

Azure 137

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 137

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

SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

I also started my career developing on UNIX systems with C++ and databases like Ingres. While Docker is starting up, I now decided to multi-task and download our new open-source, cross-platform tool called SQL Operations Studio. When I graduated from college, one of the first computers I ever used was a MacIntosh.

Servers 40

Servers Internet Internet Open Source 40

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Scalegrid

JANUARY 17, 2019

This open source tool has cross-platform support and actually embeds the mongo shell within its interface to provide both shell and GUI-based interaction. For AWS customers who have their deployments open to the internet, this will involve adding the identified machine’s IP address to the ScaleGrid cluster’s whitelist.

Database 178

Database Servers Open Source AWS 178