Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

In this article, well discuss six ways to design websites for high-traffic events like product drops and sales: Compress and optimize images , Choose a scalable web host , Use a CDN , Leverage caching , Stress test websites , Refine the backend. You can also find optimization plugins or caching solutions that give you access to a CDN.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database. Microsoft Azure offers multiple ways to manage Apache Cassandra databases. It also removes the need for developers and database administrators to manage infrastructure or update database versions.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

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. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

There are many naive solutions possible for this problem for example: Write different runs in different databases. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. Instead our challenge was to implement this feature on top of Cassandra and ElasticSearch databases because that’s what Marken uses.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. Redis is a great caching solution for highly demanding applications, and there are […]. Redis is an advanced key-value store. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has the ability to persist data on disk.

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Cache Azure Benchmarking Performance 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?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Experienced database administrators learn to spot patterns that can lead to common problems.

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Monitoring Metrics DevOps Scalability 264

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Specifically, how our team uses the relationships and schemas defined within GraphQL to automatically build and maintain a search database. Each service could potentially implement its own search database, but then we would still need an aggregator. Best of all, our page can load much faster since everything is cached in Elasticsearch.

Database 246

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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Cache Cloud Performance Retail 97

Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Identifying key Redis metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis database requires active monitoring. Monitoring tools should also be considered when setting up your Redis database.

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InfoQ

JANUARY 29, 2024

RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2 billion daily API requests. The team at RevenueCat created an open-source memcache client that provides several advanced features.

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 19, 2025

But my original version was slow, because I queried the database for every page load. Of course writes were much less common than reads, so I added a caching layer for reads, and that did the trick. So I decided to write my own message board in PHP and MySQL, which better managed transactions.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

WiredTiger excels with operational databases and transactional workloads as it offers b-tree-based storage and well-ordered data structures. In-Memory Storage Engine, as the name suggests, stores data in memory for faster performance and lower latencies. It uses a filesystem cache and write-ahead log for crash recovery.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. Monitoring tools should also be considered when setting up your Redis® database.

Strategy 130

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

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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.

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Randon ASCII

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The fact that this shows up as CPU time suggests that the reads were all hitting in the system cache and the CPU time was the kernel overhead (note ntoskrnl.exe on the first sampled call stack) of grabbing data from the cache. This means that there is no caching between RuntimeBroker.exe and this file.

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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 206

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 206

VoltDB

MARCH 21, 2024

In the world of databases, data management, and data platforms, this entropy usually takes the form of a simple database or data platform that might be ideal for early use cases evolving (or rather, de volving) into an expensive and unmanageable nightmare due to operational strain from use-case gluttony. How hard can it be?

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Cache Database Storage Availability 52

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Active Memory Caching. When you want to get data that you already had quickly, you need to do caching — caching stores data that a user recently retrieved. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

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. This includes metrics such as query execution time, the number of queries executed per second, and the utilization of query cache and adaptive hash index.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Adding caching when your app is already experiencing load is not easy.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. The rationale was simple: the data I need is already in this other database, and accessing a database is easy, so I’ll just reach in and grab what I need. And data was at the heart of the problem.

Database 72

Database Cache Architecture Latency 72

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. If we expand the cache concept more, the buffer pool could be even less if the working set (hot data) is smaller.

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Social Media Database Servers Cache 145

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. Given that, there never was a single straight answer.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. By caching hot datasets, indexes, and ongoing changes, InnoDB can provide faster response times and utilize disk IO in a much more optimal way.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

There are two main types of DNS servers: authoritative servers and caching resolvers. But the real robustness of the DNS system comes through the way lookups are handled, which is what caching resolvers do. Caching techniques ensure that the DNS system doesnt get overloaded with queries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

Cloud 111

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 111

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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