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Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Once the AWS Storage Gatewayâ??s MORE
Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. As we showed last week one of the services that is growing rapidly is the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Other storage tiers may see even greater cost savings. All Things Distributed. MORE
By removing disk-based storage and the challenge of copying data in and out of memory, query speeds in SQL Server can be improved by orders of magnitude. Introduction In-memory technologies are one of the greatest ways to improve performance and combat contention in computing today. MORE
The workload could refer to anything from an increase in users, storage, or a number of transactions. A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system. MORE
RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage Peter Chen, Edward Lee, Garth Gibson, Randy Katz and David Patterson, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 26, No. MORE
With big data on the rise and data algorithms advancing, the ways in which technology has been applied to real-world challenges have grown more automated and autonomous. MORE
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. MORE
It’s really scary knowing that such corruptions are happening in the memory of our computers and servers – that is before they even reach the network and storage portions of the stack. That data must then be safely transported over a network to the storage system where it is written to disk. Well, if you’re using one of the storage protocols that lack end-to-end checksums (e.g. performance storage database checksum data corruption data safety MORE
The cohesive, albeit heterogeneous on-premises IT environments of the past have given way to a disaggregated, interdependent mélange of compute, network, and storage components, both on-premises and in the private and public clouds. In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing. MORE
For example, one well-respected vendor's standard solution is limited to 7.5TB of internal storage, and it can only scale to 30TB. big data performance data storage ssd nvme gpu ai ml MORE
As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. MORE
As the DB continues to run on the new host – the Nutanix storage detects the access patterns and “localizes” the data that the DB is accessing. Many different queries are executing in parallel, some hitting RAM cache, some hitting storage. MORE
AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Amazon Import/Export is an important tool for customers to accelerate moving large amounts of data into the AWS storage systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. MORE
Stay tuned for the next set of Synthetic Monitoring features, including, but not limited to: Credential storage. Dynatrace news. link]. Lately, we’re seeing that automation is the main focus of IT, and microservice architectures are becoming increasingly common. MORE
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today? MORE
Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. MORE
S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My Best Christmas Present â?? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. Permalink. Comments (). MORE
Does your web application make use of local storage? If so, then like many developers you may well be making the assumption that when you read from local storage, it will only contain the data that you put there. There are two basic requirements for a storage-based XSS attack. MORE
NVMe Storage Use Cases. NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. big data ai data storage ml nvme peperformance MORE
Tip: There are a number of directives that Clear-Site-Data will accept: "cookies" , "storage" , "executionContexts" , and "*" (which, naturally, means ‘all of the above’). MUST NOT store’ in this context means that the cache MUST NOT intentionally store the information in non-volatile storage, and MUST make a best-effort attempt to remove the information from volatile storage as promptly as possible after forwarding it. MORE
Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. This has been an option that customers have been asking us about for some time so we are really pleased to be able to offer this alternative storage option now. MORE
Next, select the VM size, ranging from Micro at 10GB of storage up to X4XLarge at 700GB of storage, and then your MySQL version and storage engine. WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MORE
They've posted about Anna's new superpowers in Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale : Using Anna v0 as an in-memory storage engine, we set out to address the cloud storage problems described above. Anna Paper: Eliminating Boundaries in Cloud Storage with Anna. MORE
However, this approach eventually led to storage issues. To address this storage issue for older snapshots, we’ve adapted our cleanup strategy so that monthly snapshots are now removed automatically after 6 months. Dynatrace news. MORE
External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore. MORE
However, Hive cannot access a single table directly using a single query with the data of this Hive table across different mediums of storage and different clusters. This becomes a need when the data volume grows too large to fit a single medium of storage or cluster, and also when the users need to take into account the following considerations: Storage cost, where some partitions are less important than others and can be stored on cheaper storage tiers. MORE
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans. MORE
This worked quite well for cookies but didn’t work for data stored via the Web storage API ( sessionStorage , localStorage ). Dynatrace news. MORE
Many businesses select non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage when their data-intensive applications demand fast access to data. MORE
The post View from Nutanix storage during Postgres DB benchmark appeared first on n0derunner. A quick look at how the workload is seen from the Nutanix CVM. In this example from prior post. The Linux VM running postgres has two virtual disks – one taking transaction log writes. MORE
performance monitoring apm log management log efficient log management and monitoring log management best practices log storageWhen managing cloud-native applications, it's essential to have end-to-end visibility into what's happening at any given time. This is especially true because of the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native apps, which are often deployed using ephemeral technologies like containers and serverless functions. MORE
The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb , Jim Gray and Goetz Graefe, ACM SIGMOD Record 26 (4): 63â??68, All Things Distributed. MORE
Credential storage. Dynatrace news. With the release of Dynatrace 1.175, we’ve improved the content validation capabilities of synthetic browser and clickpath monitors. The contains text content validation option now mimics the Find (Ctrl+F/Cmd+F) functionality of a web browser. MORE
Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. A Complete Storage Solution. storage that is directly accessible. MORE
Architecture Uber Data Cassandra Data Management Data Storage Data Warehouse Databook Dropwizard Gradle HDFS HIVE Infrastructure Kafka Metadata MySQL Postgres Quartz Queryparser RESTful API Uber Uber Data Knowledge Uber Engineering VerticaFrom driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data. MORE
Architecture Uber Data Apache Apache Hadoop Apache Parquet Apache Spark Big Data Data Modeling Data Warehouse Docker Engineering Hadoop Hoodie Hudi JSON Latency MySQL PostgresSQL Storage Uber EngUber is committed to delivering safer and more reliable transportation across our global markets. MORE
Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS?—?Mounting MORE
Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility? MORE
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. MORE
If you're using Azure Storage Persistence and haven't upgraded to NServiceBus 6 yet, get ready for a tremendous performance boost for your application when you do especially if you make use of sagas. MORE
The unmanaged disks are the legacy disks Azure offers where you have to setup the storage account, map your disk to the storage account, and monitor the IOPS use and limits for that storage account. Your MySQL backups will result in additional Azure data storage charges, unless you’re leveraging an all-inclusive MySQL on Azure solution like our Dedicated Hosting plans at ScaleGrid. MORE
Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 MORE
Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. A Decomposition Storage Model , George P. MORE
In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. The Apache Spark + Alluxio stack is getting quite popular particularly for the unification of data access across S3 and HDFS. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. MORE
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NVMe Storage Use Cases. NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. big data ai data storage ml nvme peperformance
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JUNE 25, 2019
It’s really scary knowing that such corruptions are happening in the memory of our computers and servers – that is before they even reach the network and storage portions of the stack. That data must then be safely transported over a network to the storage system where it is written to disk. Well, if you’re using one of the storage protocols that lack end-to-end checksums (e.g. performance storage database checksum data corruption data safety
The Netflix TechBlog
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Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS?—?Mounting
DZone
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For example, one well-respected vendor's standard solution is limited to 7.5TB of internal storage, and it can only scale to 30TB. big data performance data storage ssd nvme gpu ai ml
n0derunner
JUNE 28, 2019
The post View from Nutanix storage during Postgres DB benchmark appeared first on n0derunner. A quick look at how the workload is seen from the Nutanix CVM. In this example from prior post. The Linux VM running postgres has two virtual disks – one taking transaction log writes.
DZone
MAY 22, 2019
However, Hive cannot access a single table directly using a single query with the data of this Hive table across different mediums of storage and different clusters. This becomes a need when the data volume grows too large to fit a single medium of storage or cluster, and also when the users need to take into account the following considerations: Storage cost, where some partitions are less important than others and can be stored on cheaper storage tiers.
DZone
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With big data on the rise and data algorithms advancing, the ways in which technology has been applied to real-world challenges have grown more automated and autonomous.
High Scalability
APRIL 3, 2019
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?
All Things Distributed
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Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? s storage infrastructure. Once the AWS Storage Gatewayâ??s
Particular Software
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If you're using Azure Storage Persistence and haven't upgraded to NServiceBus 6 yet, get ready for a tremendous performance boost for your application when you do especially if you make use of sagas.
High Scalability
APRIL 16, 2019
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 20, 2012
Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. A Complete Storage Solution. storage that is directly accessible.
All Things Distributed
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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy. This has been an option that customers have been asking us about for some time so we are really pleased to be able to offer this alternative storage option now.
All Things Distributed
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Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. A Decomposition Storage Model , George P.
All Things Distributed
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RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage Peter Chen, Edward Lee, Garth Gibson, Randy Katz and David Patterson, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 26, No.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. As we showed last week one of the services that is growing rapidly is the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Other storage tiers may see even greater cost savings. All Things Distributed.
DZone
MAY 8, 2019
performance monitoring apm log management log efficient log management and monitoring log management best practices log storageWhen managing cloud-native applications, it's essential to have end-to-end visibility into what's happening at any given time. This is especially true because of the distributed and dynamic nature of cloud-native apps, which are often deployed using ephemeral technologies like containers and serverless functions.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 3, 2018
Architecture Uber Data Cassandra Data Management Data Storage Data Warehouse Databook Dropwizard Gradle HDFS HIVE Infrastructure Kafka Metadata MySQL Postgres Quartz Queryparser RESTful API Uber Uber Data Knowledge Uber Engineering VerticaFrom driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data.
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OCTOBER 17, 2018
Architecture Uber Data Apache Apache Hadoop Apache Parquet Apache Spark Big Data Data Modeling Data Warehouse Docker Engineering Hadoop Hoodie Hudi JSON Latency MySQL PostgresSQL Storage Uber EngUber is committed to delivering safer and more reliable transportation across our global markets.
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.
High Scalability
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
They've posted about Anna's new superpowers in Going Fast and Cheap: How We Made Anna Autoscale : Using Anna v0 as an in-memory storage engine, we set out to address the cloud storage problems described above. Anna Paper: Eliminating Boundaries in Cloud Storage with Anna.
All Things Distributed
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Since a few days ago this weblog serves 100% of its content directly out of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) without the need for a web server to be involved. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 17, 2011
As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.
SQL Shack
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By removing disk-based storage and the challenge of copying data in and out of memory, query speeds in SQL Server can be improved by orders of magnitude. Introduction In-memory technologies are one of the greatest ways to improve performance and combat contention in computing today.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 24, 2012
The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb , Jim Gray and Goetz Graefe, ACM SIGMOD Record 26 (4): 63â??68, All Things Distributed.
n0derunner
JULY 23, 2019
As the DB continues to run on the new host – the Nutanix storage detects the access patterns and “localizes” the data that the DB is accessing. Many different queries are executing in parallel, some hitting RAM cache, some hitting storage.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 27, 2012
S3 is not only a highly reliable and available storage service but also one of the most powerful web serving engines that exists today. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My Best Christmas Present â?? Root Domain Support for Amazon S3 Website Hosting. By Werner Vogels on 27 December 2012 12:00 PM. Permalink. Comments ().
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Does your web application make use of local storage? If so, then like many developers you may well be making the assumption that when you read from local storage, it will only contain the data that you put there. There are two basic requirements for a storage-based XSS attack.
DZone
JULY 10, 2019
In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. The Apache Spark + Alluxio stack is getting quite popular particularly for the unification of data access across S3 and HDFS. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices.
Uber Engineering
AUGUST 14, 2019
Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?
Dynatrace
AUGUST 20, 2019
Credential storage. Dynatrace news. With the release of Dynatrace 1.175, we’ve improved the content validation capabilities of synthetic browser and clickpath monitors. The contains text content validation option now mimics the Find (Ctrl+F/Cmd+F) functionality of a web browser.
Scalegrid
JULY 8, 2019
The unmanaged disks are the legacy disks Azure offers where you have to setup the storage account, map your disk to the storage account, and monitor the IOPS use and limits for that storage account. Your MySQL backups will result in additional Azure data storage charges, unless you’re leveraging an all-inclusive MySQL on Azure solution like our Dedicated Hosting plans at ScaleGrid.
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This worked quite well for cookies but didn’t work for data stored via the Web storage API ( sessionStorage , localStorage ). Dynatrace news.
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Tip: There are a number of directives that Clear-Site-Data will accept: "cookies" , "storage" , "executionContexts" , and "*" (which, naturally, means ‘all of the above’). MUST NOT store’ in this context means that the cache MUST NOT intentionally store the information in non-volatile storage, and MUST make a best-effort attempt to remove the information from volatile storage as promptly as possible after forwarding it.
All Things Distributed
JULY 7, 2011
AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. Amazon Import/Export is an important tool for customers to accelerate moving large amounts of data into the AWS storage systems. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
Scalegrid
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Next, select the VM size, ranging from Micro at 10GB of storage up to X4XLarge at 700GB of storage, and then your MySQL version and storage engine. WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today.
DZone
JUNE 12, 2019
The workload could refer to anything from an increase in users, storage, or a number of transactions. A system that has the ability to easily scale resources to meet the increasing workload without affecting the performance is known as a scalable system.
DZone
MAY 21, 2019
Many businesses select non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage when their data-intensive applications demand fast access to data.
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Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0
DZone
APRIL 26, 2019
The cohesive, albeit heterogeneous on-premises IT environments of the past have given way to a disaggregated, interdependent mélange of compute, network, and storage components, both on-premises and in the private and public clouds. In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing.
The Netflix TechBlog
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External Payload Storage External payload storage was implemented to prevent the usage of Conductor as a data persistence system and to reduce the pressure on its backend datastore.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 14, 2019
Stay tuned for the next set of Synthetic Monitoring features, including, but not limited to: Credential storage. Dynatrace news. link]. Lately, we’re seeing that automation is the main focus of IT, and microservice architectures are becoming increasingly common.
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However, this approach eventually led to storage issues. To address this storage issue for older snapshots, we’ve adapted our cleanup strategy so that monthly snapshots are now removed automatically after 6 months. Dynatrace news.
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