High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

” Incredibly, this growth is largely the result of eXp Realty’s use of an online virtual world similar to Second Life. That means every employee, contractor, and the thousands of agents who work at the company show up to work—team meetings, training seminars, onboarding sessions—all inside a virtual reality campus.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Web developers or administrators did not have to worry or even consider the complexity of distributed systems of today. Do you have a database? Great, your system was ready to be deployed. Once the system was deployed, to ensure everything was running smoothly, it only took a couple of simple checks to verify.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

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 235

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 235

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. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 209

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 209

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

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 99

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 99

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Monolithic software systems employ one large codebase, which includes collections of tools, software development kits, and associated development dependencies. Because monolithic software systems employ one large codebase repository, the service becomes a massive piece of software that is labor-intensive to manage.

Architecture 209

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 209

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. Help systems meet SLAs. Increase system uptime. Lost efficiency.

DevOps 228

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 228

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 88

Database Servers Open Source C++ 88

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. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 209

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. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 208

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 208

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds. Enter graph databases. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker. This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023.

Database 70

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 70

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.

Availability 79

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 79

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. Kelsey Hightower via Twitter, 2020).

Virtualization 163

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 163

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

Architecture 96

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 96

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. The project signaled intent to support other databases as early as the 0.7.1 or later or MariaDB 10.3

Open Source 95

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 95

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. These APIs shift the complexity of building and configuring APIs from the user to the system. So, what is cloud-native architecture, exactly?

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

HammerDB

JULY 16, 2021

One of the most important concepts in analysing database performance is that of understanding scalability. When a system ‘scales’ it is able to deliver higher levels of performance proportional to the system resources available to it. In this example, we will compare MySQL 5.7.33 and MySQL 8.0.25

Virtualization 57

Virtualization Performance C++ Database 57

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. Changing the value directly influences the performance of the Linux system. Lower values reduce swapping and keep more memory pages in physical memory.

Servers 113

Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 113

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. Cloud-based development and deployment One of the main advantages of cloud-based development and deployment is scalability.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

High Scalability

MAY 18, 2021

Join your peers for this virtual experience on April 27 from 9am - 3:30pm PDT. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! has hours of system design content.

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

High Scalability

APRIL 7, 2021

Join your peers for this virtual experience on April 27 from 9am - 3:30pm PDT. If you have experience in hosting and with the WordPress stack, have worked with Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, and cutting-edge technologies, such Ansible and LXC, you should definitely check us out and apply here ! has hours of system design content.

Education 100

Education DevOps Scalability Infrastructure 100

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. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. As well, very few cases are in need to have a full system/solution to provide scalability with sharding.

Traffic 124

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 124

Percona

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Functional indexes are found in both of Percona’s relational databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, but they are probably the least used and most understood index type, aside from geospatial. MySQL’s functional indexes are implemented as hidden virtual generated columns The virtual generated column itself requires no storage.

Speed 82

Speed Virtualization Storage Open Source 82

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems. Without the overhead of establishing and maintaining on-premises servers, these systems save resources. The benefit is scalability.

Azure 177

Azure AWS DevOps Cloud 177

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. example.net:27019>,<cfg2.example.net:27019>,<cfg3.example.net:27019>

Best Practices 72

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 72

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As with the previous guides as an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) the examples are taken from a MySQL 8 on Linux on Intel system and the approach is the same for whatever system you are testing although some of the settings you see may be different. Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The headlining feature of GCP is Google’s Compute Engine , a service for creating and running virtual machines in the Google infrastructure—a direct analog to AWS’ EC2 instances and Azure’s VMs. Scalability is a major feature of GCF. Think of GCP as a suite, whereas GCF is a specialized service within it.

Google 229

Google Cloud Serverless Azure 229