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. Website monitoring examines a cloud-hosted website’s processes, traffic, availability, and resource use.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

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

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.

Cloud 147

Cloud Strategy Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

Resource consumption & traffic analysis. Database & functional migration. If you want to read up on migration strategies check out my blog on 6-R Migration Strategies. What is the network traffic going to be between services we migrate and those that have to stay in the current data center?

Cloud 38

Cloud Traffic Database Network 38

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. Azure Traffic Manager. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance.

Azure 227

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 227

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

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.”

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

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

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. Automatic failover is a critical strategy to achieve this.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

One of the several deployment strategies is the blue/green deployment approach: In this method, two identical production environments work in parallel. One is the currently-running production environment receiving all user traffic (let’s say the “blue” one), the other is a clone of it (“green”), but idle.

Systems 38

Systems Traffic DevOps Database 38

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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Handling Bursty Traffic : Managing significant traffic spikes during high-demand events, such as new content launches or regional failovers. Those use cases are well served by the Netflix Atlas telemetry system.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

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

JULY 31, 2024

The crisis has emphasized the importance of having a strategy for maintaining stability and performance. All the problems, offline hosts, databases, and failing services appear in red. The problem card helped them identify the affected application and actions, as well as the expected traffic during that period.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

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.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

IT teams spend months preparing for the peak traffic they anticipate will arrive with holiday shopping. Decentralized last-mile delivery strategies such as micro-fulfillment centers complicate inventory management and order fulfillment oversight. (Though the three-second rule for page load time is often misinterpreted).

Retail 246

Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 246

DZone

AUGUST 28, 2023

If you are running a distributed system where each request talks to more than a couple of services, databases, and a queuing system, pinpointing the cause of an issue is not a trivial affair. There are a plethora of tools aiming to solve this problem to various degrees.

Strategy 100

Strategy Traffic Database Systems 100

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

In the initial stage, data consumers set up ETL pipelines directly pulling data from databases. With this batch style approach, several issues have surfaced like data movement is tightly coupled with database tables, database schema is not an exact mapping of business data model, and data being stale given it is not real time etc.

Big Data 257

Big Data Government Processing Analytics 257

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. This implies that the cost of storing traces grows linearly to the amount of data being stored.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2019

The only challenge is validating your deployment strategy and understanding whether it really provides the expected results. Are they receiving traffic? #3: Are all services connecting to the correct backend services or databases? Dynatrace’s Hotspot Analysis highlights code execution, database or service interaction hotspots.

AWS 186

AWS Database Best Practices Traffic 186

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

To keep it real, we have a load generator that creates benign traffic. With a conventional database, a query that scans millions of records would take many seconds to complete and require that we structure our queries up front. It also generates  OpenTelemetry  traces. htaccess", "/.ssh", This query scanned 2.5

Analytics 246

Analytics AWS Infrastructure Strategy 246

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Research by the Enterprise Strategy Group in 2020 shows 60% of reported breached production applications in the past 12 months involved a known and unpatched vulnerability. According to Gartner , 80% of vulnerabilities are introduced via transitive dependencies. Identifying vulnerabilities is only the first step.

Cloud 306

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 306

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. This article cuts through the complexity to showcase the tangible benefits of DBMS, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions about your data management strategies.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Scalegrid

JUNE 21, 2024

This underscores the importance of timely software upgrades and strategic planning to keep pace with advancements in database technology. Operational Risks Ensuring operational integrity is essential for the seamless functioning of any database system. Not all versions receive support, which might cause some users to feel left behind.

Database 130

Database Efficiency Strategy Tuning 130

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.)

Social Media 130

Social Media Cache Traffic Media 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Data replication strategies like full, incremental, and log-based replication are crucial for improving data availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems, while synchronous and asynchronous methods impact data consistency and system costs. By implementing data replication strategies, distributed storage systems achieve greater.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. But we can discuss common bottlenecks, how to assess them, and have a better understanding as to why proactive monitoring is so important when it comes to responding to traffic growth.

Traffic 98

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 98

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 117

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 117

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Inspired by David’s insights, I embarked on a journey to explore logical replication from a different perspective – within the realm of on-premises server databases. Also, it is a helpful method for version upgrades since the target database can run on a different (minor or major) PostgreSQL version. to PostgreSQL v15.4.

Database 103

Database Traffic C++ Servers 103

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. What is workload in cloud computing?

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

For vertical scaling, Memcached allows augmenting existing servers with additional CPU cores and memory, thereby enhancing the capacity of the caching pool to manage higher traffic volumes and larger data loads. Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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. Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

Best Practices 98

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 98