Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

The immediate (working) goal and requirements of HA architecture The more immediate (and “working” goal) of an HA architecture is to bring together a combination of extensions, tools, hardware, software, etc., Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Architecture 96

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 96

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 172

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 172

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is common to see a value of “ 0″ ( or sometimes “10” ) on database servers, telling the kernel to prefer to swap to memory for better response times. 20-30% is a good general default for “dirty_ratio,” but on large-memory database servers, this can be a lot of memory.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. MongoDB distributes data across these shard servers to ensure an even distribution. What is sharding in MongoDB?

Best Practices 72

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 72

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues.

AWS 120

AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 120

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 88

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 88

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. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. Autovacuum checks for bloated tables in the database and reclaims the space for reuse.

Cloud 119

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. In general terms, to achieve HA in PostgreSQL, there must be: Redundancy: To ensure data redundancy and provide continuous performance when a primary server fails, multiple copies of the database reside in replica servers.

Availability 84

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 84

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. Regularly optimizing query structures is vital.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). To support the demands of our stakeholders we designed a Domain Specific Language (DSL) that we call an asset generation recipe.

Engineering 165

Engineering Storage Latency Entertainment 165

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. These vendors often provide integrated stacks that include the database, application server, and other components that seamlessly integrate.

Open Source 92

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 92

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e.,

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. Multicloud harnesses diverse cloud services to boost flexibility, while hybrid cloud merges public and private clouds for enhanced control. But what do these entail? And how are they distinct?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

In this blog post, I provide an in-depth introduction to MySQL Replication, answering what it is, how it works , its benefits and challenges, as well as reviewing some of the MySQL replication concepts that are part of the MySQL environment (and Percona Server for MySQL specifically). Set the server-id to a unique value.

Servers 52

Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. On the Fact Sheets page, we can save approx. With approx.

Strategy 124

Strategy Development Energy Website 124

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. the amount of data from the server to the client to achieve the same result. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

Essentially, all traffic between China and the rest of the world goes through a few national level and a handful of core level access points in different regions. The censorship and monitoring of internet have evolved from anti-virus-like and firewall software to hardware security patches for all devices that uses internet.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. By instrumenting both the client-side of a request and the server-side it’s possible to figure out wait times. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

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. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. Chip design choices and silicon economics are the defining feature of the still-growing Performance Inequality Gap. Mind The Gap.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. This eliminates the need for complex or scripted backup procedures and designated backup windows. Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

At Amazon, we also require our systems and customer solutions to be anti-fragile, and we do that by designing our systems to stand the test of time. The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection. The web servers reported timeouts. Why were the web servers overloaded? Why were there timeouts?

Innovation 113

Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

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. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

This is a fascinating paper from members of Netflix’s Resilience Engineering team describing their chaos engineering initiatives: automated controlled experiments designed to verify hypotheses about how the system should behave under gray failure conditions, and to probe for and flush out any weaknesses. Safeguards.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can’t possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world. Conclusion.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). This is one of the main reasons why content delivery networks (CDNs) exist: They place servers physically closer to the end user in order to reduce latency, and thus delay, as much as possible. and prior (a)).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

It is well hidden in the Optimization: Optimizing the MySQL Server chapter. 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. I am talking about resource groups. Currently, CPU affinity (i.e., Conclusion.

Tuning 45

Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 45

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. For a timely introduction, I recommended Kevin Schaaf’s recent talk.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68