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How to overcome the cloud observability wall

Dynatrace

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. Read eBook now! 5 challenges to achieving observability at scale.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

There are also cases where although the workload and operational needs seem to best fit to one solution, there are other limiting factors that may be blockers (or at least need special handling). While RDS MySQL supports multiple storage engines with varying capabilities, not all of them are optimized for crash recovery and data durability.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

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.