Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. AI models integrated into cloud systems offer flexibility, enable agile methodologies, and ensure secure systems.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. The extension runs remotely from your Dynatrace ActiveGates and connects to your IBM i system.

Monitoring 235

Monitoring Infrastructure Metrics Analytics 235

InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

Storage 107

Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 107

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable.

Storage 288

Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Without going further into the reasons for such a need, I wanted to refresh this subject in terms of overhead related to running the command on production systems. A lot has changed since then, but many production systems alive today still run with affected versions. Let’s recap how the situation has evolved over the years.

Servers 97

Servers Database Cache C++ 97

Percona

JANUARY 25, 2023

Database administrators often need to identify inactive databases and users to save resources. This can be done using various methods to determine which databases and users are frequently accessed. We can save disk space and other resources by purging inactive databases and users.

Database 97

Database C++ Servers Open Source 97

DZone

APRIL 11, 2023

Data processing in the cloud has become increasingly popular due to its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. It provides built-in connectors for various data sources such as databases, file systems, cloud storage, and more.

Azure 246

Azure Analytics Storage Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 343

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 343

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 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 73

Database Open Source Servers Code 73

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., With increasing data sizes… spreadsheets have started to break down to the point of being unusable, displaying a number of scalability problems. They often freeze during computation, and are unable to import datasets well below the size limits posed by current spreadsheet systems.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., The central idea behind multiverse databases is to push the data access and privacy rules into the database itself. With multiverse databases, each user sees a consistent “parallel universe” database containing only the data that user is allowed to see.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualization platform that manages virtual machines (VMs) on Windows-based systems. It enables multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same physical hardware and integrates closely with Windows-hosted services. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users.

Efficiency 214

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 214

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Percona

APRIL 5, 2024

PostgreSQL’s reputation as a powerful, open source database management system has been steadily rising, making it a top choice for businesses looking to upgrade or switch their database infrastructure. It is so […]

Best Practices 56

Best Practices Open Source Scalability Database 56

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Assuming that there is already a Secrets object holding all system user passwords, the concept is really simple. mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 One convenient way that I’ve found working well is the use of an external POD running the percona-toolkit. We are going to create a Job.

Database 96

Database Performance C++ Engineering 96

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

Best Practices 88

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 88

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. SREs invest significant effort in enhancing software reliability, scalability, and dependability.

Engineering 227

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 227

DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2019

App Logic for transactional systems enforces critical integrity for database web/mobile apps. It's a significant part of the system — nearly half. Architect your app logic!

Scalability 100

Scalability Mobile Database Systems 100

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

Monitoring 100

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 100

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

That’s because of the heterogeneity of the data their environments generate and the limitations of the systems they rely on to analyze this information. The sheer number of permutations can break traditional databases. There’s also a potential scalability challenge with metrics in the context of microservices architectures.

DevOps 184

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 184

High Scalability

JULY 18, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! has hours of system design content. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

MAY 4, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! has hours of system design content. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

High Scalability

JUNE 10, 2022

If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! has hours of system design content. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Scalability 100

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. data-driven business logic stays close to the data, i.e. in the database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

As the complexity of applications and systems increases, the size of the teams that work on these also increase. In these scenarios, having the system as a monolithic one inhibits the development team from being able to move forward at speed. data-driven business logic stays close to the data, i.e. in the database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB?

Availability 101

Availability Servers Database Open Source 101

O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems. Data is all-important—vital for the continued success of our businesses—but has also been seen as a massive constraint in how we design and evolve our systems. For as long as we’ve been talking about microservices, we’ve been talking about data.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

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. Additionally, there exists a message priority labeled SYSTEM, exempt from verbosity filtering.

Database 95

Database Open Source Tuning Traffic 95

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. As such, it is generally recommended to disable THP for most database workloads.

Database 89

Database Servers Open Source C++ 89

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The breadth of fully-featured services, the pay-as-you-go scalability, and the agility of cloud platforms enable organizations to expand their modern approaches to building and managing digital services in a way they can’t with on-premises apps and infrastructure. Increased scalability. Migrate databases intelligently.

Cloud 166

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 166