DZone

JULY 2, 2024

Speed and scalability are significant issues today, at least in the application landscape. Among the critical enablers for fast data access implementation within in-memory data stores are the game changers in recent times, which are technologies like Redis and Memcached. However, the question arises of choosing the best one. This article takes a plunge into the comparative analysis of these two cult technologies, highlights the critical performance metrics concerning scalability considerations,

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Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games 264

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in OpenSSH server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems. The CVE assigned to this vulnerability is CVE-2024-6387. The vulnerability, a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root on glibc-based Linux systems, which is a significant security risk.

AWS 218

AWS Network Traffic Servers 218

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

Recently, I encountered a task where a business was using AWS Elastic Beanstalk but was struggling to understand the system state due to the lack of comprehensive metrics in CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch only provides a few basic metrics such as CPU and Networks. However, it’s worth noting that Memory and Disk metrics are not included in the default metric collection.

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Metrics AWS Virtualization Network 234

Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2024

With the move towards cloud-native computing, having a clear understanding of your Kubernetes platform’s performance and application behavior is a requirement; having the ability to troubleshoot quickly and easily is especially important. Logging provides platform and application owners with an effective way to understand the state of their workloads by giving them a view into the inner workings of their systems.

Open Source 217

Open Source Analytics Cloud Innovation 217

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

In the summer of 2023, my team entered into a code yellow to stabilize the health of the service we own. This service powers the visualization on the dashboard product. The decision was made following high-severity incidents impacting the availability of the service. For context, the service provides aggregation data to dashboard visualizations by gathering aggregations through the data pipeline.

Best Practices 147

Best Practices Availability Code 147

Percona

JULY 2, 2024

MySQL 9.0 was released on July 1, 2024. This is an ‘Innovation’ release, which means it provides access to the latest features and improvements in MySQL technologies. Innovation releases are the opposite of the Long Term Support (LTS) releases, where stability is the top priority, and only needed security and other fixes are available.

Innovation 127

Innovation Technology Technology Availability 127

Percona

JULY 2, 2024

In this blog, we will see the concepts for analyzing WAL files, such as pg_waldump (supported versions 12 and above) and pg_walinspect (supported versions 15 and above). Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) is a standard approach to transaction logging and one of the database’s functional components. WAL is a standard method for ensuring data durability.

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Database 98