Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This blog post will explore some of the major challenges in database management that businesses can expect, especially when transitioning from traditional database servers. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. Your data will always be intact.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

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. Real-time file processing, for quickly indexing files, processing logs, and validating content.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 176

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2024

ProxySQL is a high-performance SQL proxy that runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process. The process monitors the daemon and restarts it in case of a crash to minimize downtime. The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers.

Traffic 106

Traffic Hardware Cache Servers 106

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

These systems are a combination of different hardware and software which have been configured to perform the desired task. Configuration testing is performed to discover the optimum combinations of software and hardware specifications that allow the system to work without flaws. Types of Configuration Testing.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

On-premises data centers invest in higher capacity servers since they provide more flexibility in the long run, while the procurement price of hardware is only one of many cost factors. Redis is an in-memory key-value store and cache that simplifies processing, storage, and interaction with data in Kubernetes environments.

Open Source 337

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 337

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results. MySQL relies heavily on the availability of hardware resources to perform at its best.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2020

However, due to special requirements and dependencies (which vary for different Linux distributions), installation on Linux servers could sometimes be tricky or require some extra knowledge. As you might already know, starting with Dynatrace version 1.193, Windows Server 2019 is supported. What’s next.

Monitoring 133

Monitoring Hardware Servers Infrastructure 133

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. A key step in digital transformation is migrating from traditional on-prem IT processes to adopting cloud services. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 161

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 161

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

Let’s look at some questions I did that a MySQL DBA usually needs to answer in an interview process. Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. Keep in mind that setting the buffer pool size too high may result in other processes on your server competing for memory, which can impact performance.

Social Media 121

Social Media Database Servers Cache 121

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. The differences across vendors and processes are increasingly well tracked as the community is starting to build carbon quantification tools for embodied carbon, e.g., Greenchip , ACT and IMEC SSTS.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Otherwise, there is a risk of repeating many of the mistakes from classical computers where, for many years, security at the hardware and architecture levels was an afterthought. With cloud-based access, anybody, including malicious users, can run their code on the real quantum computer hardware.

Architecture 72

Architecture Hardware Programming Cloud 72

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Cloud application security is a combination of policies, processes, and controls that aim to reduce the risk of exposing cloud-based applications to compromise or failure from external or internal threats. This process can delay deployments or cause developers to skip security testing completely to meet project deadlines.

Cloud 171

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 171

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The integrator and Netflix had already completed the rigorous Netflix certification process, but during the TV operator’s internal trial an executive at the company reported a serious issue: Netflix playback on his device was “stuttering.”, They supplied a script to automate the process.

Engineering 352

Engineering Code Hardware Open Source 352

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2019

To see the complete picture of all changes that have occurred across all nodes, you need to process audit logs from all nodes. Audit logs are available on individual nodes at DATASTORE_PATH/log/server. Starting with version 1.170, hardware updates are applied automatically when services are restarted. restart.

Hardware 102

Hardware Traffic Servers Monitoring 102

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. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

During upgrade or maintenance, the devices are updated either with software or hardware. They always have backups, and many servers to provide a reliable and stable environment to test. software and hardware installation upgrades wear and tear. Backups of the servers help in disaster management. Maintenance.

Cloud 96

Cloud Testing Infrastructure Internet 96

All Things Distributed

JUNE 25, 2015

No experience with speech recognition or natural language understanding is required—Amazon does all the work to hear, understand, and process the customer’s spoken request so you don’t have to. AWS Lambda runs your code only when you need it and scales with your usage, so there is no need to provision or continuously run servers.

Lambda 166

Lambda Development AWS Innovation 166

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. So, the organization sought to reduce complexity and raise production quality. Thus, the tool Chaos Monkey was born.

Engineering 218

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Most organizations are embracing DevSecOps, a term that covers processes and tooling enabling security to be integrated into the application development life cycle rather than treated as a separate process. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Note that for all tests, we used the local loopback address and port to provide the lowest possible network latency between client and server and also so we don’t have any concerns about bandwidth limitations. the amount of data from the server to the client to achieve the same result. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X client (i.e.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

If you host your own network, you have to pay for hardware, software, and security infrastructure, and you also need space to store servers and absorb the associated energy costs. In IoT applications, devices generate massive amounts of data, and organizations must be able to process it rapidly to leverage it to its full potential.

Network 52

Network IoT Wireless Infrastructure 52

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Compression: Compression is the process of restructuring the data by changing its encoding in order to store it in fewer bytes. This can help to split large data sets into smaller ones stored in multiple servers. MyRocks is shipped in Percona Server for MySQL. 1 mysql mysql 592K Dec 30 02:48 tb1.ibd ibd -rw-r --. ibd -rw-r --.

Open Source 86

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 86

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Well, to start, serverless, or serverless computing , doesn’t really mean there aren’t servers involved, because there are, rather it refers to the fact that the responsibility of having to manage, scale, provision, maintain, etc., Applications that are running continuously on a dedicated server aren’t as impacted by latency issues.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. The Sort only has 19 rows to process, so it consumes only 1ms or so. Test Environment. There is a clustered primary key index on the Id column of the dbo.Votes table.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. This process should not be confused with synthetic monitoring which gathers data through synthetic transactions such as pinging a service.

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). When it comes to latency the authors measured RTTs for four 5G base stations spread across the city, and 20 other Internet servers nationwide.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

J. Paul Reed

AUGUST 7, 2023

The “root cause” [sic] was eventually identified and it was related subtle differences in server provisioning. Even though that remediation task was pretty minor — tweaking some low-level hardware settings on each physical server and rebooting — and could have been done quickly enough, there was intense debate on whether it should be done.

Engineering 52

Engineering Hardware Games Infrastructure 52

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Automation is defined by Wikipedia as a wide range of technologies that reduce human involvement in processes. Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. Linking screenshots/logs to the reports.

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Resources can be any element i.e., hardware, software, or infrastructure which are necessary to carry out tests. This is due to the fact that the cloud enables the provisioning of test servers on demand. This also ensures unused servers are not sitting idle. Quality is everyone’s responsibility. Testsigma is highly scalable.

Cloud 59

Cloud Testing Mobile Scalability 59

SQL Performance

JULY 3, 2019

A recent consulting engagement was focused on blocking issues inside of SQL Server that were causing delays in processing user requests from the application. Depending on which DMV you look at for SQL Server, a session can have a few different statuses. So, we had to dig in further. Understanding Session Status.

Servers 64

Servers Hardware Code Virtualization 64

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

264/AVC, currently, the most ubiquitous video compression standard supported by modern devices, often in hardware. The standard specification describes in minute detail how a video bitstream should be processed in order to produce displayable video frames. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership. This option offers 68% savings over the on-premises option.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130