Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

ScaleGrid is a fully managed DBaaS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™, along with additional support for MongoDB® database and Greenplum® database. Along with many popular cloud providers, DigitalOcean also provides a Managed Databases service. So, which database service is right for your application? Single Node.

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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!

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Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

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. Our object storage service splits objects into many parts and stores them in S3.

Media 218

Media Storage Processing Cache 218

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

High storage costs. To make searches more manageable, teams rely on database indexing. To analyze long-term trends using traditional methods, teams must rehydrate data that resides in “cold data storage” (older data that is no longer accessible for daily operations). Search constraints.

Analytics 246

Analytics Strategy Storage Technology 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2025

Learn best practices: Get expert recommendations on building a proactive Kubernetes security automation strategy. Why add KSPM to your organizations cloud security strategy? KSPM best practices The following are some practical tips to maximize the effectiveness of your Kubernetes security posture management strategy.

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Benchmarking Best Practices DevOps Cloud 147

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. Cloud storage monitoring. Website monitoring. Virtual machine (VM) monitoring.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

Percona

APRIL 18, 2025

Remember when running databases in Kubernetes felt like a gamble? When unpredictable storage performance and complex state management made stability a constant battle? Thankfully, those days are largely behind us.

Best Practices 89

Best Practices Benchmarking Storage Strategy 89

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. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

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.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? JSON database in 9.2 It is useful to validate incoming JSON and store in the database. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns. JSONB Patterns & Antipatterns.

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

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.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model.

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Cloud Strategy Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Key Takeaways Enterprise cloud security is vital due to increased cloud adoption and the significant financial and reputational risks associated with security breaches; a multilayered security strategy that includes encryption, access management, and compliance is essential.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Strategically handle end-to-end data deletion Two key elements form the backbone of an effective deletion strategy in Dynatrace SaaS data management: retention-based and on-demand deletion. Retention-based deletion is governed by a policy outlining the duration for which data is stored in the database before it’s deleted automatically.

Storage 264

Storage Government Best Practices Media 264

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

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 10, 2020

At one point, more than 30 developers were working on it, and it had well over 300 database tables. a database, a microservice API exposed via gRPC or REST, or just a simple CSV file. One of the main advantages we also saw in having an app with clear boundaries is our testing strategy?—?the

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Architecture Transportation Java Strategy 346

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

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. Flexible Storage : The service is designed to integrate with various storage backends, including Apache Cassandra and Elasticsearch , allowing Netflix to customize storage solutions based on specific use case requirements.

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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Let’s delve deeper into how these capabilities can transform your observability strategy, starting with our new syslog support. Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. Additionally, it provides index-free storage and direct analytics access to source data without requiring data rehydration. Identify the business outcomes.

Analytics 246

Analytics Software Software Storage 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

Optimal metric storage management strategy. Dynatrace Managed metric storage management is reliable and delivers high performance. Our new solution for managing metric storage doesn’t reclaim disk space by data compaction. Impact on disk space.

Performance 191

Performance Hardware Java Storage 191

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Database & functional migration. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. In order to support these modernization strategies, it takes a more granular approach to dependency analysis as we have a more specific set of questions to answer: Which services do we actually have?

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Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

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

JUNE 9, 2023

The sheer number of permutations can break traditional databases. When data storage strategies become problematic to DevOps maturity Data warehouse-based approaches add cost and time to analytics projects. Indexless means teams have rapid access to data without the storage cost and resources needed to maintain massive indexes.

DevOps 246

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 246

Percona

MARCH 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will see how running databases on Kubernetes with Percona Operators can reduce your cloud bill when compared to using AWS RDS. year For ten instances, it will be $168,192 per year Default gp2 storage is $0.115 per GB-month, for 200 GB, it is $22.50/month EBS gp2 storage is $0.10 db.r5.4xlarge – $1.92/hour

Cloud 144

Cloud Storage AWS Database 144

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Database Latency 187

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Seamlessly report and be alerted on non-topology-related custom metrics, using Dynatrace as a metric database. Choose your monitoring strategy (i.e., Because you can now seamlessly report non-topological metrics, you can now use Dynatrace as a metric database. Seamlessly report and be alerted on topology-related custom metrics.

Metrics 246

Metrics Analytics Storage Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2024

There is no need to think about schema and indexes, re-hydration, or hot/cold storage. OpenPipeline’s high-performance filtering and preprocessing provide full ingest and storage control for the Dynatrace platform. Keep in mind that Dynatrace Grail is schema-on-read and indexless, built with scaling in mind.

Analytics 304

Analytics AWS DevOps Cloud 304

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. Preparation for PITR is crucial and involves enabling binary logging and creating a full database backup. It is important to begin with a thorough database backup to prepare for such situations.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Choosing the right database often comes down to MongoDB vs MySQL. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered. Data modeling is a critical skill for developers to manage and analyze data within these database systems effectively.

Scalability 147

Scalability Database Storage IoT 147

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

As a result, not only can you understand, for example, that someone accessed a database, but also from where they came, exactly what they accessed, and to where they exported the data–to the level that we know the exact database query statement.

Analytics 246

Analytics Metrics Database Storage 246

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Migrating Persistent Stores Stateful APIs pose unique challenges that require different strategies. This alternate migration strategy has proven effective for our systems that meet certain criteria. Our system doesn’t require strict consistency guarantees and does not use database transactions.

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Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 285