Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

Engineering 262

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 262

Scalegrid

AUGUST 22, 2019

In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I: PostgreSQL Automatic Failover. Patroni for PostgreSQL.

Availability 277

Availability Servers Network Testing 277

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re running SAP, you’re likely already familiar with the HANA relational database management system. However, if you’re an operations engineer who’s been tasked with migrating to HANA from a legacy database system, you’ll need to get up to speed quickly.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Database Monitoring Metrics 246

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

Open Source 147

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System 147

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. More in the following sub-section.)

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Note that the developers of the respective services need to make these metrics available by exposing them via, for example, a Prometheus endpoint that can be used by the OpenTelemetry collector to ingest them and forward them to your Dynatrace tenant. This query confirms the suspicion that a particular product might be wrong.

Metrics 246

Metrics Tuning Monitoring Availability 246

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility. Start your free trial today!

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2020

These services are responsible for core components of the Windows operating system and third-party applications. For example: To provide support, you need a remote desktop service to be available. You also require part of your infrastructure to serve an MS SQL database with MS Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

Infrastructure 222

Infrastructure Availability Monitoring Operating System 222

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013.

Open Source 244

Open Source C++ Tuning Database 244

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we will explain the Redis transactional property of scripts, what this error is about, and why we must be extra careful about it on Sentinel-managed systems that can failover. The complete information on methods to kill the script execution and related behavior are available in the documentation. Expert Tip.

Servers 239

Servers Database Availability Monitoring 239

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements. It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. Testing Failover Behavior.

Testing 55

Testing Network Database Servers 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. According to 2023 statistics, 49% of web applications use an SQL-based database , with SQL having a 75% adoption rate in the IT industry.

Database 130

Database Scalability Best Practices Blockchain 130

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

Database 139

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 139

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. They’re proven and ready-to-go.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we will explore one of the most common and useful resilience patterns in distributed systems: the circuit breaker. The circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures and improves the overall availability and performance of a system. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

Latency 264

Latency Network Database Monitoring 264

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. Why Use a GUI Tool? Top PostgreSQL GUI Tools.

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

Dynatrace’s ability to ingest metrics from all 95 AWS services will be available within the next 60 days. The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Those in the left column are readily available now, with those in the right available soon. Available Now. Coming Soon.

AWS 279

AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable.

Storage 297

Storage Cache Metrics Database 297

Percona

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

MongoDB high availability is essential to ensure reliability, customer satisfaction, and business resilience in an increasingly interconnected and always-on digital environment. Ensuring high availability for database systems introduces complexity, as databases are stateful applications.

Availability 107

Availability Database Systems 107

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. We’d like to get deeper insight into the host, the underlying operating system, and any third-party services used by our application.

Metrics 243

Metrics Database Monitoring Network 243

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Logging provides additional data but is typically viewed in isolation of a broader system context. Observability is the ability to understand a system’s internal state by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Monitoring typically provides a limited view of system data focused on individual metrics.

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 264

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. Lastly, error budgets, as the difference between a current state and the target, represent the maximum amount of time a system can fail per the contractual agreement without repercussions. Dynatrace news. Saturation.

Automotive 290

Automotive Latency Architecture Mobile 290

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Amazon SQS: The Amazon Simple Queue Service enables users to decouple and scale microservices, serverless applications, and distributed systems, reducing both IT overhead and total complexity.

Serverless 325

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 325

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 choose Percona Server for MongoDB?

Availability 120

Availability Servers Database Open Source 120

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

GenAI is prone to erratic behavior due to unforeseen data scenarios or underlying system issues. The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources.

Cache 276

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 276

Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

IBM i, formerly known as iSeries, is an operating system developed by IBM for its line of IBM i Power Systems servers. It is based on the IBM AS/400 system and is known for its reliability, scalability, and security features. Some tools demand the installation of agents on those systems and provide complex, disconnected views.

Monitoring 264

Monitoring Infrastructure Metrics Operating System 264

Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

Let’s start with a simple introductory comparison: With proprietary (closed source) database software, the public does not have access to the source code; only the company that owns it and those given access can modify it. Myth #2: Proprietary databases are better and therefore more suitable for large enterprises.

Open Source 135

Open Source Database Software Software 135

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

In PostgreSQL, vacuuming is a maintenance task that helps to optimize database performance and reclaim space. PostgreSQL and other database management systems use MVCC to ensure consistent reads and prevent data loss from concurrent updates. It is essential to run a vacuum to keep the database running smoothly periodically.

Database 140

Database Performance C++ Efficiency 140

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Over time as new key-value databases were introduced and service owners launched new use cases, we encountered numerous challenges with datastore misuse.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Designed with High Availability in mind.

Database 221

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 221

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in a given IT system. The goal of an assessment is to locate weaknesses that can be exploited to compromise systems. That said, vulnerability databases such as CVE , help identify known vulnerabilities.

Infrastructure 243

Infrastructure Open Source Virtualization Operating System 243

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Database security is crucial to protecting sensitive information stored in a database. A critical aspect is authentication, which refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to access the database. PostgreSQL server authentication refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to connect to the PostgreSQL server.

Database 138

Database Servers Testing Programming 138

Dynatrace

JULY 21, 2020

Business, finance, and administrative applications written in the common business-oriented language (COBOL) have run tirelessly on IBM Z systems since the early 1960s. Hiring mainframe programmers with COBOL skills is challenging nowadays as most of them have retired, whereas Java expertise is widely available. Dynatrace news.

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Java Database Programming Government 257