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. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cloud computing is a model of computing that delivers computing services over the internet, including storage, data processing, and networking. It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.

Cloud 201

Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 78

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 78

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. This code is then executed on remote servers in response to an event, such as users interacting with functional web elements. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions.

Development 255

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 255

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Software failure: Software applications can become vulnerable, or they can crash altogether.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

If you replicate from one server to the next, are you replicating what you need? Take some to check how the server is being accessed, as you do not want a project to use the root access for all queries. Third, double-check the version of the software that is in use. You want to stay up to date, or at least fairly up to date.

Database 87

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 87

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 181

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 181

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Just like shipping containers revolutionized the transportation industry, Docker containers disrupted software. A standard Docker container can run anywhere, on a personal computer (for example, PC, Mac, Linux), in the cloud, on local servers, and even on edge devices. Networking. In production, containers are easy to replicate.

Open Source 307

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 307

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

A log is a detailed, timestamped record of an event generated by an operating system, computing environment, application, server, or network device. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. “Logging” is the practice of generating and storing logs for later analysis.

Analytics 214

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 214

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 230

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 230

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a database?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system. Offsite Backups Onsite backups are kept on the same server or network as the MySQL instance. It’s renowned for its dependability, effectiveness, and simplicity.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This includes latency, which is a major determinant in evaluating the reliability and performance of your Redis® instance, CPU usage to assess how much time it spends on tasks, operations such as reading/writing data from disk or network I/O, and memory utilization (also known as memory metrics).

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Connected_slaves provides information about replication status while Used_memory tracks utilized amount of server’s total capacity. You can pick a smart selection of relevant metrics from these.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. PostgreSQL software supports synchronous streaming replication, asynchronous streaming replication, and logical replication.

Availability 82

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 82

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem. Optimizing Lambda for performance.

Lambda 183

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 183

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The net result of rapid advancements in the networking world is that inter-tier communications latency will approach the fundamental lower bound of speed-of-light propagation in the foreseeable future. RPCValet balances incoming RPC requests among the multiple cores of a server. Consider a 16-core server handling 16 requests.

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. defects) and evaluating the features of the software items.” Testing Techniques. ” In Dynamic Testing, the code is executed.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Limited toolset and features Another challenge that organizations may face when considering open source is the perception that community software versions have a limited set of features. Security and risk The question “ Is Open Source software safe?

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware 89

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Just consider the sheer number of people who stream Netflix every night!

Efficiency 99

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 99

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

VoltDB

JUNE 26, 2024

In addition to hardware and software expenses, costs also include the infrastructure needed to support these systems — like sensors, IoT devices, upgraded network capabilities, and robust cybersecurity measures.

IoT 52

IoT Analytics Artificial Intelligence Energy 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud migration is the process of transferring some or all your data, software, and operations to a cloud-based computing environment that offers unlimited scale and high availability. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little. Reduced cost.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Early web applications involved less on client-side behavior and more server-side for all its navigation, query handling, and updates. A request will be sent from the client-side and an HTTP check waits on the server port to get the message, process it, and then send back the response. Network or connection error. HTTP error.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Testlodge

JUNE 16, 2021

To secure consumer data, organizations need to make sure that their networks are updated and protected against any malicious activity. The complexity of the software being built and that billions of devices are connected with them through the internet, makes them vulnerable to security threats.

Testing 67

Testing Hardware Open Source Internet 67

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a simple example such as this, it would not necessarily be expected for the additional network traffic to be significant between the 2 approaches. However, with more complex application logic this network round trip soon becomes a key focus area for improving performance. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X performance advantage.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. The $47,500 licensing costs for Oracle Enterprise Edition is only for one CPU core, that ultimately has to be multiplied with the actual number of cores on the physical server. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

A modern commodity server can contain up to 1TB of RAM, and Lambda functions can use as little as 128MB. So you need up to 8000 functions on a server to fill the RAM (more in practice due to soft allocation). for block IO, process scheduling and memory management, and the TUN/TAP virtual network interfaces).

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps on their own are meant to slash down the time taken from building a patch to deploying it on the servers. Infrastructure as a Service is the term used for those cloud-based solutions that provide complete infrastructure to the users including all the overheads, hardware, and networking facilities. Source: Twitter.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59