Percona

MARCH 24, 2025

When performing backups, reducing the amount of time your server is locked can significantly improve performance and minimize disruptions. Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro introduces improvements in how DDL (Data Definition Language) locks (aka Backup Locks) are managed, allowing for reduced locking during backups.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is an ETL tool widely used for developing and managing enterprise data warehouses. Given that data warehouses handle large volumes of data, performance optimization is a key challenge for architects and DBAs.

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Percona

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At Percona, we took the time to examine this release carefully, check performance, and guarantee it works perfectly, stand-alone, and with other tools like Percona Backup for MongoDB and Percona Monitoring and Management. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Percona Server for […]

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

As organizations increasingly migrate their applications to the cloud, efficient and scalable load balancing becomes pivotal for ensuring optimal performance and high availability. Load balancing is a critical component in cloud architectures for various reasons.

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DZone

JANUARY 3, 2022

An access log is generated by the web server to log the details about the request that it has processed. While doing any performance analysis, these logs play an important role. Most people are aware of the application server log but many of them are not aware of the web server/load balancer access log.

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DZone

APRIL 19, 2023

As you know, the SQL Server on Linux is becoming mature and easy to use. Still, it does not support MMC consoles in Linux which makes the administration of the SQL Server a little bit complicated. Please note that the operations which we are performing require elevated permissions. I am using root user. So let us begin.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Efficient database scaling becomes crucial to maintain performance, ensure reliability, and manage large volumes of data. From optimizing query performance with indexing to distributing data across multiple servers with horizontal scaling, each section covers a critical aspect of database management.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Time To First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time Matt Zeunert 2025-02-12T17:00:00+00:00 2025-02-13T01:34:15+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Loading your website HTML quickly has a big impact on visitor experience. TCP: Establishing a reliable connection to the server.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. Step-by-step guide: SRE-driven performance analysis with Dynatrace. If you use your own application and it was already running before you installed the OneAgent, please restart your application and web servers.

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Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

Scalegrid

AUGUST 26, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance. Throughput.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Breaking down the benefits of OpenTelemetry histograms OpenTelemetry instrumentation automatically generates histograms for HTTP client and server request durations. It reports batch sizes and HTTP/RPC measurements of its own pipelines as histograms, providing valuable metrics for performance monitoring.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It also makes the process risky as production servers might be more exposed, leading to the need for real-time production data. This typically requires production server access, which, in most organizations, is difficult to arrange. Dynatrace servers never access, process, or store customer source code.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Benefits of Caching Improved performance: Caching eliminates the need to retrieve data from the original source every time, resulting in faster response times and reduced latency. Reduced server load: By serving cached content, the load on the server is reduced, allowing it to handle more requests and improving overall scalability.

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DZone

JULY 7, 2024

For servers using Intel CPUs that are not deployed in a multi-instance environment, it is recommended to disable the vm.zone_reclaim_mode parameter. Hardware Configuration Recommendations CPU Ensure the BIOS settings are in non-power-saving mode to prevent the CPU from throttling.

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Hardware Performance Programming Servers 258

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team. This had the effect of dramatically speeding up its performance and reducing support costs.

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Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

DZone

MAY 31, 2022

However, to tactically assess the website's performance , it needs to be measured in a well-thought-out manner. Core Web Vitals is a key performance metric that analyzes the website's performance by investigating the data and provides a strategic platform to scale up the website's user experience.

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DZone

JUNE 9, 2021

Whenever we need to do performance testing, mostly it is the APIs that come to mind. Testing the performance of an application by putting load on APIs or on servers and checking out various metrics or parameters falls under server-side performance testing.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In the recently published Gartner® “ Critic al Capabilities for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability,” Dynatrace scored highest for the IT Operations Use Case (4.15/5) This is accomplished by using service monitoring and anomaly detection for early-warning notifications of performance issues.” 5) in the Gartner report.

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Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Performance Analytics 278

DZone

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Need for the Creation of the STS Plugin From a Web Application in Tomcat The idea of having a server to manage the dataset was born during the performance tests of the income tax declaration application of the French Ministry of Public Finance in 2012.

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Servers Java Performance Testing Testing 162

Scalegrid

MARCH 10, 2025

Built and maintained by Oracle, it provides an all-in-one solution for database modeling, query execution, user administration, and performance monitoring. If youre working with MySQL on a web server and want a browser-based tool, this ones hard to beat. Its a solid choice if you want a full-featured MySQL development environment.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Live Debugger enables developers to access real-time insights from runtime environments without requiring issue reproduction or redeployments, extract debugging information without performance impact, and leverage contextual insights for rapid problem resolution.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment.

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Percona

AUGUST 26, 2024

At Percona, we have always prioritized database performance as a critical factor in selecting database technologies. Recently, we have observed a concerning trend in the community edition of MySQL, where performance appears to be declining across major releases, specifically MySQL versions 5.7,

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether you’re a seasoned IT expert or a marketing professional looking to improve business performance, understanding the data available to you is essential. With Dashboards , you can monitor business performance, user interactions, security vulnerabilities, IT infrastructure health, and so much more, all in real time.

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DZone

AUGUST 4, 2022

For the longest time, hosting static files on CDNs was the de facto standard for performance tuning website pages. The host offered browser caching advantages, better stability, and storage on fast edge servers across strategic geolocations. Not only did it have performance benefits, but it was also convenient for developers.

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Cache Tuning Storage Website 305

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Flexible Restore Points: Allows recovery to specific moments using multiple backup increments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. Before GraphQL: Monolithic Falcor API implemented and maintained by the API Team Before moving to GraphQL, our API layer consisted of a monolithic server built with Falcor. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2024

We, as users, have our data residing on someone else’s server. It mostly doesn’t matter how robust your computing device is, as everything happens on servers. However, today, the norm for computer users is to access web-based software services through a web browser. With the prevalence of web-based software, the paradigm has changed.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2025

This powerful tool can be leveraged across various environments, including production, to enhance development processes and ensure robust application performance. Performance benchmarking Performance benchmarking is one of the unresolved mysteries of software engineering. In many ways, it’s more of an art than a science.

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Benchmarking Code Open Source Engineering 147

Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

MySQL configuration variables are a set of server system variables used to configure the operation and behavior of the server. Configuration variables that can be set at run time are called Dynamic variables and those that need a MySQL server restart to take effect are called Non-Dynamic variables. and MySQL 8.0. In MySQL 5.7,

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration. These include Quality-of-Experience(QoE) measurements at the customer device level, Service-Level-Agreements (SLAs), and business-level Key-Performance-Indicators(KPIs).

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DZone

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Poorly optimized queries can lead to slow response times and increased load on the database server, negatively impacting user experience and system performance. Optimizing complex MySQL queries is crucial when dealing with large datasets, such as fetching data from a database containing one million records or more.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Dynatrace Application Performance Management (APM) has long provided multiple options for database monitoring, including deep insights into code and statements, service level visibility, connection pool monitoring, and more. Yet, most modern applications rely on proper database performance to provide users with a flawless user experience.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You can use it to visualize CPU utilization across your hosts, disk space used, server-side response time, web request/service failure rates, or any other area where you need to spot outliers immediately. This is useful for identifying performance bottlenecks and understanding the overall user experience.

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Latency Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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