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. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 108

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware.

Efficiency 103

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 103

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? How does AWS Lambda work? Optimizing Lambda for performance.

Lambda 186

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 186

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them?

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. If you are new to no-code tools, you can check out Testsigma which is a popular open-source no-code tool Testsigma. Get Testsigma Open Source.

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this age of digital information, robust backup and recovery strategies are the pillars on which the stability of applications stands. In this blog, we will review all of the potential MySQL backup and restore strategies, the cornerstones of any application. on, you can use mysqlbinlog to stream binary logs from a remote server.

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

When you have multiple copies of your data on different database servers — or even better, in different data centers worldwide — replication provides a high level of fault tolerance in case of a disaster. This may overload the node leading to poor performance, which is the opposite of what the sharding strategy wants to solve.

Database 80

Database Servers Storage Strategy 80

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance. Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database.

Traffic 89

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 89

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In many organizations, front-end developers know exactly what common underlying problems are and what strategies should be used to fix them. Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

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

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. If you only test your own application (and if you have more than one application which one will you use for benchmarking?)

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Back-End Error Tracking Back-end, or server-side, errors include things like page exceptions and JavaScript errors. Back-end error tracking is relatively straightforward since all server-side code runs in the same place.

Strategy 67

Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. 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.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 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. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63