Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Networking.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. Besides the traditional system hardware, storage, routers, and software, ITOps also includes virtual components of the network and cloud infrastructure.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. Understanding Database Management Systems (DBMS) A Database Management System (DBMS) assists users in creating and managing databases. In a DBMS, data serves as the material which the system stores, structures, and controls.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. When delving into the networking aspect of a hybrid cloud deployment, complexities arise due to the requirement of linking or expanding existing on-premises network architectures into the cloud sphere.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

We decided to use our inventive powers to design and build a new database engine that would give database systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL reliability and performance at scale, at a level that could serve even the most demanding OLTP applications.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses. pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. In this blog post, we saw how Kubernetes and Operators can simplify your DR design.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. Because a third party manages part of the infrastructure, IT teams give up a measure of control over system architecture. Consider a monolithic application, for example, designed to perform a host of functions. But how does FaaS fit in?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. By default, each record captures a network internet protocol (IP), a destination, and the source of the traffic flow that occurs within your environment.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Note that most of the changes we’ve introduced so far and those that are detailed below are all designed to be invisible to you, taking place entirely automatically in the background. However these improvements are of critical importance for those who have been exposed to the problems that these improvements are designed to solve.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. The graphic below (Fig. 1) depicts the migration of traffic from fixed bitrates to DO encodes.

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Open Source Software Engineering Internet Internet 252

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When an application runs on a single large computing element, a single operating system can monitor every aspect of the system. Modern operating systems provide capabilities to observe and report various metrics about the applications running. The components of partitioned applications generally communicate over a network call.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a set of best practices and guidelines that help you design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable systems in the cloud. Storing frequently accessed data in faster storage, usually in-memory caching, improves data retrieval speed and overall system performance. Beyond

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. AWS Storage Gateway. AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully-managed graph database service designed for applications working with highly connected datasets. Amazon SageMaker. AWS Step Functions.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Comments ().

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. This can reduce labor costs and enhance reliability by enabling systems to self-heal. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

To make this possible, the application code should be instrumented with telemetry data for deep insights, including: Metrics to find out how the behavior of a system has changed over time. Traces help find the flow of a request through a distributed system. Logs represent event data in plain-text, structured or binary format.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Artificial intelligence can automate tasks ranging from: data analysis resource provisioning system maintenance decision-making natural language processing This not only improves accuracy and reliability but also frees up valuable time for IT teams to focus on strategic tasks, such as resource management on platforms like Google Cloud.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Visibility into system activity and behavior has become increasingly critical given organizations’ widespread use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other serverless platforms. EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. Dynatrace news. Amazon EC2.

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Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 208

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Redis Performance Indicators Redis is designed to handle high traffic and low latency with its in-memory data store and efficient data structures. These essential data points heavily influence both stability and efficiency within the system. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 25, 2020

The network latency between cluster nodes should be around 10 ms or less. Minimized cross-data center network traffic. For Premium HA, this has been extended from 10 ms latency (in the same network region) to around 100 ms network latency due to asynchronous data replication between regions.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Database: MySQL 8.0.31

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

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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. In multi-cloud and hybrid cloud models, security measures such as: Vendor compatibility Secure network integration API security enforcement Data protection are implemented.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Without data backup mechanisms, there can be data loss or system downtime. Even worse, entire operating systems can crash, also resulting in data loss. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Similarly, accidental deletion is a culprit.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 26, 2022

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The majority of SPOFs are a consequence of scale, where designs that were once adequate (excellent, even) no longer meet evolving, more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability. Can you afford that recovery time?

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

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Design Education Google Internet 54

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Choose any service, for example, the Elastic File System (EFS) service, to view the list of configured metrics.

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