Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

Open Source 98

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 98

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. If you have a large database of user information stored on your servers, consider introducing multi-factor identification.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

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. DigitalOcean Droplets. minutes of downtime in one year.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

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 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

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.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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 99

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 99

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. mongos --configdb <configReplSetName>/<cfg1.example.net:27019>,<cfg2.example.net:27019>,<cfg3.example.net:27019>

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 216

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 216

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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. It will also allow us to redirect read/write traffic to the primary and read-only traffic to all secondaries.

Traffic 125

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 125

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 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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. You probably need an in-house Developer Experience Platform Team that knows the languages, supports the libraries, and manages the web service and database vendors.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Setting Up MySQL Replication – Step by Step: Backup Data: Before starting, create a backup of your primary database to prevent data loss during setup.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

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

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Source: “Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases These are the words of Bob Diachenko, one of the most respected cybersecurity researchers in relation to a “Meowing” attack, which destroyed between 1000-4000 databases around the world. MongoDB databases commonly exceed a terabyte of data.

Best Practices 41

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Traffic 41

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2023

The term "synthetic" is used because it does not rely on traffic generated by real clients and end-users. Canaries emulate customer behavior by following the same paths and executing the same actions, enabling continuous verification of the customer experience even when there is no actual customer traffic on the applications.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Testing Artificial Intelligence Traffic 52

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility. Please note – there is no need to restart your database servers. If your apps are deployed in a PaaS Platform, e.g:

Engineering 189

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Apica

JANUARY 18, 2023

You may have thousands of spreadsheets moving data between databases that are virtually invisible to the “latest” monitoring technology. You can monitor, tweak, and retry traffic from any application or network device, with no need to write your own code. There’s no need to hack and tweak the functionality. It just works.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Network Architecture Traffic 52

MachMetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Dynamic sites, on the other hand, are constantly making round trips to a database to update the content that a visitor is served. The next time a visitor navigates to your Blog page, a round trip is made to check the database for any new posts, and the page is built on the fly, displaying the new post. Source: CloudCannon.

Website 52

Website Speed Traffic Database 52

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

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention. The best they can usually do in real-time using general purpose tools is to filter and look for patterns of interest.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

O'Reilly Software

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

By encapsulating tasks into separate services, parts of an application can be developed independently, deployed efficiently as containers, and scaled out automatically with new instances as traffic grows. Microservice creation falls into a few distinct stages. The design stage. A programmer can then fill in the stub. The deployment stage.

Development 69

Development Retail Traffic Virtualization 69

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It helps assess how a site, web application, or API will respond to various traffic, without adding any additional infrastructure. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? It is also one of the four golden signals of monitoring, which also includes traffic, error, and saturation.

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Database & functional migration. Lift & Shift is where you basically just move physical or virtual hosts to the cloud – essentially you just run your host on somebody else’s hardware. How much traffic is sent between two processes hosting a certain service?

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The Apica LoadTest solution uses innovative technologies like monitoring nodes and load clusters to reliably deliver and sustain a large-scale load of virtual users (VUs) to Hollywood for different, realistic user scenarios all at the same time. Our experts and platform will also give your IT organizations knowledge on when and how to test.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. product: Virtual Disk. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.Â

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. MySQL determines, at startup, how many virtual CPUs are available.

Tuning 45

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 45

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Correspondingly, 3GB functions should see a 2x CPU performance improvement over 1.5GB Lambdas, but this is through doubling the number of cores the function has access to, rather than double the virtualized time-slices. Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. To make use of the services in this region, customers will use the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to organize their AWS resources.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Terraform's declarative nature makes this adaptation straightforward.‍Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40