Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

According to a 2023 Forrester survey commissioned by Hashicorp , 61% of respondents had implemented, were expanding, or were upgrading their multi-cloud strategy. Nearly every vendor at Kubecon and every person we spoke to had some form of a multi-cloud requirement or strategy. We expect that number to rise higher in 2024.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 201

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

Availability 75

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 75

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 94

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Backup types and strategies It all begins with choosing a strategy, and that depends on factors such as the use and importance of data to your business, your recovery time objectives (RTO), and your budget. With the right backup strategy , you’ll be better able to achieve the aforementioned business continuity.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. Trace-based sampling can help you save storage costs. This can help you save money in storage costs in the long run. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability.

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AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization. Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

Best Practices 177

Best Practices Open Source Tuning Infrastructure 177

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

JANUARY 11, 2023

A fully open source tool to help with your backup needs! For the largest MongoDB clusters, the sheer amount of data impacts the backup strategy. When developing open source and free-to-use software, we look for your input. That’s why Percona has developed Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). Physical backups.

Open Source 78

Open Source Database Strategy Storage 78

Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. In this blog post, we’ll explore a technique to help your backup strategy: running pgBackRest’s expire and backup processes in parallel while utilizing custom lock-file paths.

Database 91

Database Open Source Storage Servers 91

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns. JSONB storage results in a larger storage footprint. JSONB storage does not deduplicate the key names in the JSON. If that doesn’t work, the data is moved to out-of-line storage.

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Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Tech News Gather

APRIL 10, 2023

The three pillars of this process are design, development, and implementation. The design phase decides the app’s look, feel, and major purpose. During the design phase, developers can utilize UX/UI kits or wireframes to help outline your ideas and form a framework for developing your content.

Mobile 52

Mobile Development Open Source Java 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. In this post, we’ll walk you through the best way to host MongoDB on DigitalOcean, including the best instance types to use, disk types, replication strategy, and managed service providers. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. ‍Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But OpenShift provides comprehensive multi-tenancy features, advanced security and monitoring, integrated storage, and CI/CD pipeline management right out of the box. By removing concerns around storage, security, and lifecycle management, businesses can instead focus on application development, support, and evolution. The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

AWS speaker: Aditi Suresh, Customer speaker: Brian Rowe SUS205: Slowing down deforestation by using AI, ML, and open source data Organizations worldwide are developing solutions to evaluate, monitor, or predict land use and cover change in order to identify potential carbon credit projects, deforestation trends, and future wildfire risk areas.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. Tip #5: Think wisely about your index strategy Putting some thought into your queries at the start can have a massive impact on performance over time. It provides a flexible data model allowing you to easily store unstructured data.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlike CloudFormation, which was confined to AWS resources, Terraform was designed with a multi-cloud approach in mind. significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. Being open-source, Terraform invited a vast community of developers and companies to rally around it.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Infrastructure 40

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. In the absence of a proper backup strategy, the data can be lost forever, leading to significant financial and reputational damage. Why are MongoDB database backups important?

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Download our eBook, “ Enterprise Guide to Cloud Databases ” to help you make more informed decisions and avoid costly mistakes as you develop and execute your cloud strategy. This eliminates the need for complex or scripted backup procedures and designated backup windows. Download Now What is Amazon Aurora?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

are stored in secure storage layers. Amsterdam is built on top of three storage layers. The first layer, Cassandra , is the source of truth for us. One of the first decisions when integrating with Elasticsearch is designing the indices, their settings and mappings. Net, Ruby, Perl etc.).

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Strategy Cache Analytics Storage 258

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 22, 2023

" Open Policy Agent (OPA) : OPA is an open-source policy as code framework that provides a general-purpose policy engine. Conftest : Conftest is a tool designed to enforce policies on configuration files. OPA can be integrated with a wide range of tools and systems, making it highly versatile.

AWS 52

AWS Best Practices Infrastructure Traffic 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When dealing with e-commerce at some point, you probably have heard, and perhaps used Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. Coding From Scratch.

Code 75

Code Cache Retail Mobile 75

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. Connection pooling: Minimizing connection overhead and improving response times for frequently accessed data by implementing mechanisms for connection pooling and caching strategies.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. In addition, another lesson here is that once we accept model checking is necessary, we need to design systems that are amenable to model checking.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

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. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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 ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. STPA is based on a functional control diagram of the system, and the safety constraints and requirements for each component in the design. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. when web fonts aren’t loaded yet).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. This includes both data pipeline developed using batch-driven frameworks such as Apache AirFlow, Luigi, etc.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

In this blog post, we are thrilled to share that we are open-sourcing one such tool: the Netflix Data Explorer. Users frequently had questions on how they should set up replication, create tables using an appropriate compaction strategy, and craft CQL queries.

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Metrics Best Practices Strategy Design 152

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It has become a de facto standard for perceptual quality measurements within Netflix and, thanks to its open-source nature , throughout the video industry. For example, when we design a new version of VMAF, we need to effectively roll it out throughout the entire Netflix catalog of movies and TV shows.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171