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 82

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 82

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

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

JUNE 27, 2023

Many AWS services and third party solutions use AWS S3 for log storage. Centralized log management for scalable ingestion into Grail As AWS S3 proves to be the preferred way of storing cloud logs, enterprise customers face mounting challenges in putting S3 log data to use.

AWS 198

AWS Cloud Lambda Analytics 198

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

The DevOps playbook has proven its value for many organizations by improving software development agility, efficiency, and speed. These methods improve the software development lifecycle (SDLC), but what if infrastructure deployment and management could also benefit? GitOps improves speed and scalability. What is GitOps?

DevOps 225

DevOps Infrastructure Speed Cloud 225

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. So you look at MongoDB Enterprise software, but its costly and complex licensing structure does not meet your budget goals.

Open Source 79

Open Source Database Scalability Software 79

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At Percona, we observe a growing trend among companies utilizing Kubernetes as a means to offer services to their teams, fostering expedited software delivery and driving business growth. The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

Percona

MAY 8, 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. Take a look! Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37 Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.17

Monitoring 80

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 80

Percona

JUNE 30, 2023

Percona, a leading provider of open-source database software and services, announced the general availability of Percona Operator for PostgreSQL version 2. The solution is 100% open source and automates the deployment and management of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. In version 1.x,

Availability 97

Availability Open Source Azure Hardware 97

Percona

JUNE 12, 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. Take a look! Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37.1 was released on June 5, 2023.

Open Source 86

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 86

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them.

Monitoring 199

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 199

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. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. What is Prometheus?

Metrics 178

Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 178

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now?

Availability 103

Availability Servers Database Open Source 103

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It has evolved steadily, however, during 25 years as an open source project. Another reason for PostgreSQL popularity (perhaps the biggest): It’s open source and free to use, distribute, and modify. What is PostgreSQL used for?

Open Source 82

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 82

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure. An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From data lakehouse to an analytics platform Traditionally, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. For example, development teams can use automation to increase efficiency in the software development lifecycle.

Efficiency 276

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps 276

Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Compress the audit log files to reduce the storage space occupied with log files. Encrypt the audit log files by using AES-256 encryption. Dynamically enable or disable the auditing. A server restart is not required to add or adjust existing filtering rules. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Open Source 107

Open Source Database Servers Storage 107

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. PostgreSQL software supports synchronous streaming replication, asynchronous streaming replication, and logical replication.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. With limited visibility, teams have a narrow understanding of how those decisions impact other software components and vice-versa. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

Artificial Intelligence 178

Artificial Intelligence Metrics Architecture DevOps 178

Percona

APRIL 10, 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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

Open Source 80

Open Source Servers AWS Database 80

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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. While this provides greater scalability than on-site instrumentation, it also introduces complexity. Amazon EC2.

Best Practices 211

Best Practices AWS Monitoring Serverless 211

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

But OpenShift provides comprehensive multi-tenancy features, advanced security and monitoring, integrated storage, and CI/CD pipeline management right out of the box. defaults to the Container Runtime Interface — Open Container Initiative (CRI-OCI), which is capable of handling a greater number of container nodes at scale. The result?

Monitoring 147

Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. Connection management — This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database.

Availability 82

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The output is larger than for physical backup, particularly when saved in text format, but it can be compressed on the fly depending on the software you are using. Encryption Backups have sensitive data, so it’s highly recommended to encrypt, especially for offsite storage.

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Benefits of Graviton2 Processors Best price performance for a broad range of workloads Extensive software support Enhanced security for cloud applications Available with managed AWS services Best performance per watt of energy used in Amazon EC2 Storage Continuing with the AWS example, choosing the right storage option will be key to performance.

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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. Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software.

Open Source 62

Open Source Azure Database Servers 62

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

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52