Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 2 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Picture yourself enthralled by the latest episode of your beloved Netflix series, delighting in an uninterrupted, high-definition streaming experience. This is where large-scale system migrations come into play.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

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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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2020

With most employees now working from home, and the demand on e-commerce platforms hits an all-time high, applications and infrastructure are under intense pressure with new usage patterns that have never been planned for or tested against. Government agencies coping with COVID-19.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. ALTER EVENT SESSION [ ADS_Standard_Azure ] ON DATABASE. DROP EVENT sqlserver.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

Grasping the concept of Redis sharding is essential for expanding your Redis database. This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

Traditional testing and monitoring practices have long been relied upon to achieve this goal. However, the line between testing and monitoring is becoming increasingly blurred with the emergence of synthetic monitoring. The term "synthetic" is used because it does not rely on traffic generated by real clients and end-users.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

With cloud-based resources, teams can spin up infrastructure in seconds, begin testing immediately, scale up or down as needed, and easily eliminate resources that are no longer needed. In case of a spike in traffic, you can automatically spin up more resources, often in a matter of seconds. Migrate databases intelligently.

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Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 158

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are a traditional way of addressing this. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 225

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. minutes of downtime in one year. MongoDB Replica Sets.

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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

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

On the first node, Patroni initializes the database, obtains the leader lock from DCS, and ensures the node is being run as the master. For test purposes, DCS can be installed on same nodes running PostgreSQL. High Availability Test Scenarios. We conducted a few tests on PostgreSQL HA management using Patroni.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. The POC Why this POC?

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Traffic Scalability Database Servers 122

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The time and effort saved with testing and deployment are a game-changer for DevOps. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. Containers can be replicated or deleted on the fly to meet varying end-user traffic. What is Docker?

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

By Benson Ma , Alok Ahuja Introduction At Netflix, hundreds of different device types, from streaming sticks to smart TVs, are tested every day through automation to ensure that new software releases continue to deliver the quality of the Netflix experience that our customers enjoy. In this blog post, we will focus on the latter feature set.

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Latency Traffic Transportation Cloud 213

Percona

APRIL 20, 2023

TDE is a database encryption technique that encrypts data at the column or table level, as opposed to full-disk encryption (FDE), which encrypts the entire database. I will use Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2 (currently in tech preview) in my tests, but such an approach can be used with any Percona Operator.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. have adopted Kubernetes.

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Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Inspired by David’s insights, I embarked on a journey to explore logical replication from a different perspective – within the realm of on-premises server databases. Also, it is a helpful method for version upgrades since the target database can run on a different (minor or major) PostgreSQL version. to PostgreSQL v15.4.

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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.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. Figure 2: Amazon Elastic Block Storage Running relational or NoSQL databases is one of the use cases where EBS is recommended for.

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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.

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Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 93

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. micro) The tests We will have very simple test cases.

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Games Latency Traffic Cache 119

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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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

Dynatrace PurePath technology captures and analyzes transactions end to end across every tier of your application technology stack, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level. Turnkey cluster overload protection with adaptive traffic management and control. Impact on disk space.

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Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 149

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. So, it becomes very important to test for the optimal required use case before implementing it in production. Here, we are going to test snappy and zstd compression with the following configurations.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

VoltDB

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. THROUGHPUT: THE DATA HIGHWAY’S CAPACITY Throughput, on the other hand, is the highway’s capacity to handle traffic. It’s like a well-maintained highway where you can cruise without any traffic jams. No compromises.

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2023

This could be backed by a database or something as simple as a JSON file. Example: API traffic with feature flags Imagine an API endpoint that a service calls to perform an action. It has already been adopted by many feature flag vendors and adopted by some names that you might know. This action relies on an algorithm.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Even more surprisingly, websites that are marked as spam on email portals lose 95 percent of their traffic. Hence, this could cost a lot of business, due to the dwindling site traffic. The whole idea rests on creating a database of IP addresses that could be effectively harmful, malicious, or contain any unnecessary spam content.

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Monitoring Traffic Website Database 86

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

After a new build gets deployed and automated tests executed, SLIs are evaluated against their SLOs and, depending on that result, a build is considered good (promoted) or bad (rolled back). “ The app description and supporting files such as load testing scripts are on the Keptn Example GitHub. This is what this blog is all about.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 185

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 15, 2017

An interesting discussion started around a very good post Open Source Load Testing Tool Review by Ragnar Lönn. What I’m looking for primarily is functionality that supports load test automation. But I don’t think the traditional, complex load test scenario is suitable for automation.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At its core, a distributed storage system comprises three main components: a controller for managing the system’s operations, an internal datastore where information is held, and databases geared towards ensuring scalability, partitioning capabilities, and high availability for all types of data. Is NTFS a distributed file system?

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps aims to move applications more quickly into production by releasing new builds frequently — often several times per day — and incorporating constant feedback and testing, both during development and after software is deployed. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process?

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It is particularly beneficial during high-traffic periods or when serving content to a large audience.All of these benefits apply to modern applications that process user thumbnails. This increased server load can strain server resources, especially during high-traffic periods. How Can You Boost Website Performance?

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Cache Social Media Website Performance Website 52

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.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Percona

MARCH 6, 2023

If you want an answer based on detailed information about your database usage and patterns, it’s recommended to use Percona Management and Monitoring. A rule of thumb here is to configure the Redo Logs to be able to hold one hour of traffic, thus letting checkpointing perform in a smooth, less aggressive way. MB per minute ( 3.74

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