DZone

JUNE 3, 2019

Let's imagine a web application, where for each request received, it must read some configuration data of a database. That data doesn't change usually, but the application, in each request, must connect, execute the correct instructions to read the data, pick it up from the network, etc. What would happen?

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Missing Cache Settings – Make sure you cache resources that don’t change often on the browser or use a CDN. That included web servers, app services, microservices, queues, databases, mainframe and external services.

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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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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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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. Redis, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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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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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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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Bloom, these data structures have found applications in various fields such as databases, caching, networking, and more. They effectively filter out unwanted items from extensive data sets while maintaining a small probability of false positives. Since their invention in 1970 by Burton H.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. Database queries: Pages that require data from a database will incur a cost when searching over it. Routing: If you are using a CDN—and you should be!—a

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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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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. It essentially describes the lifetime of each file you download to load your page from the network. You can see this by opening your browser and looking in the Networking tab.

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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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High Scalability

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. Redis, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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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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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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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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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

However, let’s take a step further and learn how to deploy modern qualities to PWAs, such as offline functionality, network-based optimizing, cross-device user experience, SEO capabilities, and non-intrusive notifications and requests. When developing a PWA, you can cache the application shell’s resources and assets in the browser.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

This post is about PostgreSQL, but most of the problems also apply to other database systems. The more indexes, the more the requirement of memory for effective caching. Indexes need more cache than tables Due to random writes and reads, indexes need more pages to be in the cache.

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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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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You can get summaries of your database servers, or you verify replication lag on MySQL and PostgreSQL servers. You get thirty-eight scripts that can do any manner of actions, and you will find them very valuable in your regular database work. Caches | 12.4G Caches | 12.4G Caches | 12.4G LTS (jammy) Kernel | 6.2.0-33-generic

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Redis Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

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HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. Redis™, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining rapidly changing data in back-end databases creates bottlenecks that impact responsiveness. In addition, repeatedly accessing back-end databases to serve up popular items, such as product descriptions and news stories, also adds to the bottleneck. The Solution: Distributed Caching.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Using a data-driven approach to size Azure resources, Dynatrace OneAgent captures host metrics out-of-the-box to assess CPU, memory, and network utilization on a VM host. Too much data requested from a database. Too many fine-grained services leading to network and communication overhead. Missing caching layers.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining rapidly changing data in back-end databases creates bottlenecks that impact responsiveness. In addition, repeatedly accessing back-end databases to serve up popular items, such as product descriptions and news stories, also adds to the bottleneck. The Solution: Distributed Caching.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2023

These include improving API traffic management and caching mechanisms to reduce server and network load, optimizing database queries, and adding additional compute resources, just to name some. While some of these are already done, such as adding additional compute, others require more development and testing. Hopefully never.)

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Challenges At Netflix, temporal data is continuously generated and utilized, whether from user interactions like video-play events, asset impressions, or complex micro-service network activities. Also, with Cassandra 4.x,

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The naming system that we are all most familiar with in the internet is the Domain Name System (DNS) that manages the naming of the many different entities in our global network; its most common use is to map a name to an IP address, but it also provides facilities for aliases, finding mail servers, managing security keys, and much more.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

the order of the rows on your Netflix home page, issuing content licenses when you click play, finding the Open Connect cache closest to you with the content you requested, and many more). A majority of the Netflix product features are either partially or completely dependent on one of our many micro-services (e.g.,

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. Key Takeaways Understanding PostgreSQL hostname is essential for successful database connections. Understanding the PostgreSQL Hostname Hostname is a key factor for the effective management of PostgreSQL databases and providing secure access.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While mobile devices have come a long way in terms of network and CPU speed, many of them are still significantly underpowered when compared to desktops, especially in countries where mobile connectivity is still poor. The results of some of these APIs are also cached in a CDN as appropriate. Large preview ).

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