Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

These are the goals of AI observability and data observability, a key theme at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , the observability provider’s annual conference, which takes place in Las Vegas from January 29 to February 1, 2024. Join us at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , either on-site or virtuall y, to explore these themes further.

Performance 186

Performance DevOps Innovation Artificial Intelligence 186

InfoQ

OCTOBER 14, 2023

times the storage per node than before” without a price change. Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Google Storage Cloud Database 100

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 134

Storage Scalability Database Technology 134

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

As CTOs, database developers & experts, and DBAs seek more efficient, secure, and scalable cloud services solutions, DBaaS emerges as a compelling choice. This surge aligns with the 62% of companies reporting substantial data growth, underscoring the escalating need for scalable and agile database solutions.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dynatrace has developed the purpose-built data lakehouse, Grail , eliminating the need for separate management of indexes and storage. All data is readily accessible without storage tiers, such as costly solid-state drives (SSDs). No storage tiers, no archiving or retrieval from archives, and no indexing or reindexing.

Retail 237

Retail Storage Best Practices Architecture 237

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

When extended to include application security practices, DevOps becomes DevSecOps and includes security-focused criteria, such as security by design and making security a critical release criterion. When data storage strategies become problematic to DevOps maturity Data warehouse-based approaches add cost and time to analytics projects.

DevOps 184

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 184

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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

InfoQ

JUNE 26, 2023

Microsoft has recently unveiled several new features for Azure Cosmos DB to enhance cost efficiency, boost performance, and increase elasticity. These features are burst capacity, hierarchical partition keys, serverless container storage of 1 TB, and priority-based execution. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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Azure Serverless Performance Storage 85

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

Monitoring 98

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 98

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

InfoQ

JULY 7, 2023

Facundo Agriel dives into the architecture of Magic Pocket, some early key design patterns, and the challenges of operating such a system at this scale. By Facundo Agriel

Systems 52

Systems Storage Architecture Design 52

Strategic Tech

MAY 24, 2019

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. As part of good design, we should consider the effects of changing all of these variables.

Design 45

Design Software Architecture Strategy Technology 45

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EC2 is Amazon’s Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) compute platform designed to handle any workload at scale. With EC2, Amazon manages the basic compute, storage, networking infrastructure and virtualization layer, and leaves the rest for you to manage: OS, middleware, runtime environment, data, and applications. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more companies move away from traditional on-premises data centers, they enter into an era where scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness become possible through various services offered by different providers in the market today.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. VoltDB is a distributed in-memory database that is designed to power real-time intelligent decisions on fast moving streaming data. The post Scalable MicroService Architecture appeared first on VoltDB. Problem solved, right?

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

There are further requirements for high performance in the following: Telecom: vEPC or 5G Core. VoltDB is a distributed in-memory database that is designed to power real-time intelligent decisions on fast moving streaming data. The post Scalable MicroService Architecture appeared first on VoltDB. Problem solved, right?

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 was released.

Open Source 79

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 79

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

InfoQ

JUNE 16, 2023

Datadog created a dedicated data ingestion architecture offering exactly-once semantics for their third-generation event store, Husky. The event-driven architecture (EDA) can accommodate bursts in traffic in the multi-tenant platform with reasonable ingestion latency and acceptable operational costs. By Rafal Gancarz

Architecture 55

Architecture Scalability Latency Traffic 55

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation. In addition, MariaDB provides optimal scalability options, making it ideal for growing workloads. Contact us to learn more!

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The auto-increment feature, which generates unique values for primary key columns, is an integral part of the database’s design. MySQL 8’s solution MySQL 8 addresses the auto-increment counter loss issue in the InnoDB storage engine upon server restart. Compared to MySQL 5.7, sec) Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00

Servers 110

Servers Storage Database Open Source 110

All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types. Expanding The Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM.

Cloud 129

Cloud Performance AWS Virtualization 129

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. What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

Virtualization 161

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 161

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

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.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

The design space. We group the DBMS design choices and tradeoffs into three broad categories, which result from the need for dealing with (A) external storage; (B) query executors that are spun on demand; and (C) DBMS-as-a-service offerings. Query performance. Query performance is measured from both warm and cold caches.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL has powerful and advanced features, including asynchronous replication, full-text searches of the database, and native support for JSON-style storage, key-value storage, and XML. It’s reliable, robust, feature-rich, and performant. It all helps ensure the cluster’s peak performance.

Open Source 78

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 78

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52