Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes has become the leading container orchestration platform for organizations adopting open source solutions to manage, scale, and automate application deployment. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform for managing, automating, and scaling containerized applications. What is Kubernetes?

Open Source 192

Open Source Storage Analytics Innovation 192

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability.

Storage 88

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 88

DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. KVM functions as a type 1 hypervisor, delivering performance similar to hardware—an edge over type 2 hypervisors.

Virtualization 117

Virtualization Hardware Open Source Storage 117

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These are just some of the topics being showcased at Perform 2023 in Las Vegas. Perform 2023 news At Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, the headliner theme is IT automation. What’s more, organizations are no longer concerned only about application performance and sales numbers. We’ll post news here as it happens!

Efficiency 275

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 275

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. Who can benefit from DLV? and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28

AWS 95

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 95

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

In this post, we are going to compare the performance and pricing of DigitalOcean PostgreSQL vs. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL to help you determine the best PostgreSQL hosting service on DigitalOcean. On average, ScaleGrid provides over 30% more storage vs. DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL at the same affordable price. Compare Pricing. Single Node.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. Compare Pricing. DigitalOcean. Instance Type. Medium: 4 vCPUs. Medium: 4 vCPUs.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

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. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform. What is Kubernetes? What is OpenShift? Ease of use.

Open Source 206

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System 206

DZone

JULY 29, 2019

One of the top trending open-source data storage that responds to most of the use cases is Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a distributed data storage and search engine with fault-tolerance and high availability capabilities. To make the best use of its search feature, Elasticsearch needs to be configured properly.

Big Data 157

Big Data Government Open Source Storage 157

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This architecture offers rich data management and analytics features (taken from the data warehouse model) on top of low-cost cloud storage systems (which are used by data lakes). This decoupling ensures the openness of data and storage formats, while also preserving data in context. This technique is called schema-on-write.

Artificial Intelligence 267

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Storage Architecture 267

DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The load testing for the database needs to be conducted usually so that the impact on the system can be monitored in different scenarios, such as query language rule optimization, storage engine parameter adjustment, etc. The operating system in this article is the x86 CentOS 7.8.

Testing 240

Testing Operating System Storage Performance 240

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

With siloed data sources, heterogeneous data types—including metrics, traces, logs, user behavior, business events, vulnerabilities, threats, lifecycle events, and more—and increasing tool sprawl, it’s next to impossible to offer users real-time access to data in a unified, contextualized view. Addressing security requirements.

Analytics 194

Analytics Processing Transportation Storage 194

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

MySQL and PostgreSQL are the top two open source relational databases in the world, and Redis is the top key-value database. The open source model is not only popular with the developer market, but also enterprise companies looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce spend.

Availability 227

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

AWS AppFabric ingests and normalizes audit logs from SaaS applications and delivers them to an Amazon Simple storage service (Amazon S3) bucket in an organization’s AWS account. Notebooks are a perfect tool to understand and perform an in-depth analysis of AWS AppFabric logs, thanks to the powerful Dynatrace query language, DQL.

AWS 245

AWS Analytics Government Monitoring 245

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I developed many batch and real-time data pipelines using open source technologies for AOL Advertising and eBay. These cultural points resonated with me most: freedom and responsibility, high bar for performance, and no hiring of brilliant jerks. Moreover, its petabyte scale also brings unique engineering challenges.

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Joe Brockmeier gave a talk on this topic earlier this year at Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver – “ Are Containers Ready for Production Databases ?” Q3: What performance issues, if any, does Kubernetes introduce? Kubernetes performance is heavily influenced by the underlying hardware.

Open Source 83

Open Source Hardware Storage Database 83

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. Block compression can improve performance by allowing data to be read and written in smaller chunks.

Storage 106

Storage Network Open Source Latency 106

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

OpenTelemetry is an open source framework that provides agents, APIs, and SDKs that automatically instrument, generate, and gather telemetry data. It also provides tools and integrations with popular open source projects, including Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Jaeger, and Prometheus, among others.

Open Source 195

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics 195

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Problems include provisioning and deployment; load balancing; securing interactions between containers; configuration and allocation of resources such as networking and storage; and deprovisioning containers that are no longer needed. Originally created by Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF as an open source project.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 185

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2021

The complexity of such deployments has accelerated with the adoption of emerging, open-source technologies that generate telemetry data, which is exploding in terms of volume, speed, and cardinality. How can we optimize for performance and scalability? Extend your topology mapping to include open-source observability data.

Analytics 246

Analytics Open Source Serverless Architecture 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. Additionally, it provides index-free storage and direct analytics access to source data without requiring data rehydration. Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Analytics 190

Analytics Software Software Storage 190

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. The biggest drawbacks are that a full backup can be time-consuming, and they require a significant amount of storage space. Therefore, it’s not the ideal choice if there are time or storage limitations.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

Serverless 108

Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 108

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There are many things I love about it – PL/ PG SQL, smart defaults, replication (that actually works out of the box), and an active and vibrant open source community. Hopefully we can generate enough interest in the open source community to prioritize these features.

Database 184

Database Open Source Storage Servers 184

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For good performance, the filter blocks are cached in the RocksDB block cache and normally stay there since they are accessed frequently. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB. In most cases a bitmap of a few hundred bytes is sufficient.

Storage 125

Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 125

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. As the two first graduates of the open source project incubator, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Kubernetes and Prometheus are usually deployed together. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 177

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 177

DZone

JANUARY 8, 2020

Prometheus is an open-source system monitoring and alerting toolkit. Data related to monitoring is stored in RAM and LevelDB nevertheless data can be stored to other storage systems such as ElasticSearch, InfluxDb, and others, [link]. Watch out for your self-destructing apps!

Monitoring 179

Monitoring Open Source Storage Systems 179

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. As such, you save on storage space and data transfer in case of cloud setups. It’s time for the release roundup!

Open Source 82

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 82