This post tells how a website with a distributed database reduced online serving latency from 1.11 s to 417.7 ms, and then to 123.6 ms. We found that some lessons learned on MySQL could be applied throughout the optimization process. But when we optimize a distributed database, we need to consider more. The OSS Insight […]
Containerizing applications instead of hosting them on virtual machines is a concept that has been trending in the last few years, making container management popular. Docker sits at the heart of this transition, helping organizations seamlessly adopt containerization technology. Recently, Docker use cases can be seen across all industries, regardless of size and nature. What […]
Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C (TPC-C) benchmark test is by far the most credible and authoritative yardstick of the functionality and performance of online transaction processing databases in the database industry worldwide. On May 20, 2020, the TPC published the TPC-C benchmark test results of OceanBase — 707 million transactions per minute (tpmC), with […]
Why We Need Automated Deployments Over the last decade, there has been a paradigm shift in the way applications are written, deployed, and managed. Businesses have adopted cloud-native as their strategy for dealing with applications. As a result, applications have shifted to a microservices architecture. The deployment platforms are now managed by clouds or Kubernetes. […]
Imagine a situation where when user load increases or decreases on an application, there is no way for the application to scale out or in its resources as required. Such an application probably wouldn’t survive in today’s market thanks to Kubernetes Autoscaling, which can easily overcome such a situation with its different scaling mechanisms. Kubernetes […]
Foremost, the Oracle Cloud ERP, abbreviated as Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning includes all sorts of functions in an enterprise or organization, i.e, from account management, financial management, and project management to procurement. Likewise, Oracle entered the IT industry with its maximum used cloud-based technology based on the end-to-end Saas (Software as a service) platform […]
In a business environment, SaaS is a compelling alternative to installing software on-premises (the traditional method), which requires the creation of the server, installation of the application, and configuration. As a result, the applications are hosted on a remote cloud network that is accessible via a web browser or API, just as if they were […]
Debezium is a great tool for capturing the row-level changes that happen on a Database and streaming those changes to a broker of our choice. Since this functionality stays within the boundaries of a Database, it helps on keeping our applications simple. For example, there is no need for an application to emit events on […]
In this post, you will learn how to create an Ansible playbook. As an exercise, you will install an Apache Webserver onto two target machines and change the welcome page. 1. Introduction In the two previous Ansible posts, you learned how to setup an Ansible test environment and how to create an Ansible inventory. This post continues […]
The goal of DevOps is to increase the speed, quality, and reliability of software delivery. It is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). DevOps is often used in the context of web ops, application development, and security.