Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Best practices to consider. Website monitoring. Cloud storage monitoring.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

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.

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Database Scalability Best Practices Blockchain 130

Percona

JUNE 4, 2024

MongoDB’s flexibility and speed make it a popular database choice, but as your data grows, managing and querying massive datasets can become challenging. This is where partitioning, also known as sharding, comes to the rescue.Partitioning strategically divides your data collection into smaller, more manageable chunks.

Best Practices 107

Best Practices Scalability Performance Speed 107

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. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

DZone

MAY 23, 2019

How do you tune the Snowflake data warehouse when there are no indexes, and few options available to tune the database itself? This article summarizes the top five best practices to maximize query performance. Snowflake was designed for simplicity, with few performance tuning options.

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Best Practices Tuning Performance Database 100

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We’ll answer that question and explore cloud migration benefits and best practices for how to go through your migration smoothly. Increased scalability. From a scalability perspective, cloud providers offer computing resources as they are needed, enabling organizations to scale with demand. What is cloud migration?

Cloud 241

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 241

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

This operational component places some cognitive load on our engineers, requiring them to develop deep understanding of telemetry and alerting systems, capacity provisioning process, security and reliability best practices, and a vast amount of informal knowledge about the cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Employee training in cybersecurity best practices and maintaining up-to-date software and systems are also crucial. To manage high demand, companies should invest in scalable infrastructure , load-balancing, and load-scaling technologies. Human error Human error remains one of the leading causes of tech outages.

Software 290

Software Software Infrastructure Network 290

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Application Performance Management (APM) best practices we recommend to optimize user experience and application performance—driven initially by on-premises workloads and finite compute capacity—contribute to improved computational efficiency by reducing CPU cycles, optimizing inter-process communications, and lowering memory footprints.

Cloud 264

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 264

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Percona

APRIL 5, 2024

PostgreSQL’s reputation as a powerful, open source database management system has been steadily rising, making it a top choice for businesses looking to upgrade or switch their database infrastructure. It is so […]

Best Practices 81

Best Practices Open Source Scalability Database 81

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Open source migration can be a game-changer, offering flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Heck, typing “database migration plan” into Google and reading this blog could constitute planning. Inadequate training Transitioning to open source requires a team that understands your target database solution.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Best Practices Strategy 111

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. Reality In practice, while both these categories have equal attention, project improvements hold paramount importance for business outcomes.

Engineering 264

Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 264

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. mongos --configdb <configReplSetName>/<cfg1.example.net:27019>,<cfg2.example.net:27019>,<cfg3.example.net:27019>

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. What is the Recovery Time Objective? How do you know the backup succeeded?

Best Practices 81

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 81

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database. We engaged with them to determine graph schema best practices to best suit the needs of Studio Engineering. The schema registry is developed in-house, also in Kotlin.

Architecture 255

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 255

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

To do so we have successfully established AI-based White box load and resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace, helping identify and resolve major performance and scalability problems in recent projects before deploying to production. Our customers usually involve us 2-4 weeks before the production release.

Testing 246

Testing Open Source Metrics Infrastructure 246

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables?

Best Practices 21

Best Practices Performance Processing Systems 21

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

Microservices development is intrinsically optimized for continuous integration/continuous deployment ( CI/CD ) processes that apply agile development best practices for the rapid delivery of reliable code. Additionally, typical SOA models use larger relational databases.

Architecture 246

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 246

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 107

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 107

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To solve the challenges mentioned above and meet our rapidly evolving business needs, we re-architected the legacy SKU catalog from the ground up and partnered with the Growth Engineering team to build a scalable SKU platform. SKUDB: SKU catalog data was migrated from the metadata configuration files to a relational database.

Mobile 218

Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 218

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2023

Production Use Cases Real-Time APIs (backed by the Cassandra database) for asset metadata access don’t fit analytics use cases by data science or machine learning teams. Such clusters may have different configurations of thread pools to read and write data from database, logging levels and connection configuration with external dependencies.

Traffic 243

Traffic Media Processing Design 243

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When designing and running modern, scalable, and distributed applications, Kubernetes seems to be the solution for all your needs. Traces represent causally related distributed events on a distributed system, showing, for example, how a request flows from the user to the database. What does observability mean for Kubernetes?

Virtualization 237

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 237

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

Monitoring 117

Monitoring Scalability Database Cache 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Strategic allocation of these resources plays a crucial role in achieving scalability, cost savings, improved performance, and staying ahead of advancements in the field.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

APRIL 5, 2024

Grasping the concept of Redis sharding is essential for expanding your Redis database. This method involves splitting data over various nodes to improve the database’s efficiency. It enhances scalability and manages traffic surges, though it requires specific client support and limits multi-key operations to a single hash slot.

Scalability 130

Scalability Java Efficiency Database 130

High Scalability

DECEMBER 18, 2018

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Healthcare 122

Healthcare Best Practices DevOps Cache 122

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more companies move away from traditional on-premises data centers, they enter into an era where scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness become possible through various services offered by different providers in the market today. This ensures the highest level of protection for data stored in these databases on the cloud.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

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. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

Architecture 124

Architecture Availability Open Source Healthcare 124

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

Source: “Meowing” attack completely destroyed more than 1000 databases These are the words of Bob Diachenko, one of the most respected cybersecurity researchers in relation to a “Meowing” attack, which destroyed between 1000-4000 databases around the world. MongoDB databases commonly exceed a terabyte of data.

Best Practices 53

Best Practices Transportation Open Source Database 53

Percona

OCTOBER 16, 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. you can now use an external VictoriaMetrics database for monitoring in PMM. Take a look.

Servers 109

Servers Monitoring Open Source Scalability 109

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. 10 rows in set (0.02 order by c. 7 rows in set (0.00

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. But for those who are not so familiar, in this post, we will discuss how Kubernetes has emerged as the unsung hero in an industry where agility and scalability are critical success factors. have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 117

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

DevOps 145

DevOps Software Engineering Open Source Infrastructure 145

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Let’s review the best practices we usually follow in Managed Services before using your MySQL server in production and stage env, even for home play purposes. Therefore, disabling Transparent Huge Pages for database servers is advisable to avoid this situation. It’s a nice thing to do, but first things first.

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Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 128