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Stop Being Afraid of Databases

DZone

Ensuring database reliability can be difficult. We want developers to be able to work efficiently while taking ownership of their databases. Achieving this becomes much simpler when robust database observability is in place. Our goal is to speed up development and minimize rollbacks. Lets explore how.

Database 223
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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

Azure 344
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MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

Scalegrid

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. Azure Database for MySQL: Throughput. Balanced Workloads.

Azure 299
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Catching up with OpenTelemetry in 2025

Dynatrace

Top takeaways: Key OpenTelemetry trends in 2025 Semantic Conventions ensure alignment: Semantic Conventions provide consistent telemetry data interpretation, correlation, and automation, with HTTP spans now stable and other domains like databases and messaging nearing stabilization. OpenTelemetry Collector 1.0

Tuning 310
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A New Era Has Come, and So Must Your Database Observability

DZone

Previously, our application was using one database; developers knew how it worked, and the deployment rarely happened. A single database administrator was capable of maintaining the database, optimizing the queries, and making sure things worked as expected. Cloud and microservices changed the world.

Database 288
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PyMongo Tutorial: Testing MongoDB Failover in Your Python App

Scalegrid

It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements. It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. Testing Failover Behavior.

Testing 55
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Testcontainers: Containers for Testing

DZone

I’ve always been more of a fan of unit tests than integration tests, mainly for one reason: I don’t need anything external to be able to run them. I don’t need to have a database started, an external service to connect to, or a Kafka running to be able to run the tests and therefore to be able to develop.

Testing 244