Key Findings From the 2022 State of GraphQL Report
GraphQL, the open source query language, has been steadily growing in popularity over the past few years. The language is excellent for frontend development, as it creates a usable interface to fetch precisely the data required for the specific client at hand. You can also use it to aggregate multiple backend services and data sources. […]
Zilliz Unfurls Managed Vector Database Service
Zilliz this week made generally available a managed cloud service that can now be spun up in less than five minutes. The service is based on the company’s open source Milvus vector database. Frank Liu, director of operations for Zilliz, said the managed Zilliz Cloud service running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud will […]
Momento Launches Elastic Cloud Caching Service
Momento this week emerged from stealth to launch an elastic Serverless Cache platform that promises to improve the performance of applications running on databases deployed in the cloud while simultaneously reducing costs. Fresh from raising $15 million in seed funding, Momento CEO and co-founder Khawaja Shams said Serverless Cache gives IT teams access to a […]
Database Observability: How to Circumvent your Weakest Link
Today, IT pros field an increasing number of assets they need to monitor to secure systems and understand what’s happening in their database and applications. This is further complicated as organizations adopt hybrid IT strategies and IT pros are tasked with managing tech stacks that span across on-premises and public clouds. To cut through complexity […]
Time-Series Database Basics
There’s been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you’re monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give you valuable insights into trends and patterns. But what exactly is a time-series database, and why do you need one? This article will […]
Busting 5 Common Database Modernization Myths
Modernizing databases is one of the best ways to improve database and application performance. However, many companies are hesitant to make major changes, even if they could lead to better outcomes. Why? Because there are prevailing myths about how database modernization projects fail to deliver on expectations. Five myths, in particular, seem to hold leaders […]
Database Migration From Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 2
In part one of this blog series, we looked at our approach to migration by leveraging the Azure data factory, tuning the performance of Data Factory Pipeline, using Parquet files and increasing computing power. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the challenges encountered during the migration, cost-saving actions and our approach to data […]
SQL Server MDF to NDF Distribution
Do you have massive MDF files on your database? Have you noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying operating system? It could be that your SQL Server data files are being hammered too hard and you don’t have enough […]
Database Migration from Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 1
Technological advancements have increased the demand for enhanced infrastructure with quick deployments. Public cloud providers are constantly upgrading their policies and infrastructure to match ever-growing business requirements. This competition gives businesses the ability to choose the cloud provider(s) that best fit specific governance and cost-effectiveness needs. In this blog, we discuss migrating databases from SQL […]
Database Virtualization: Breaking Vendor Lock-In
Every enterprise is battling vendor lock-in—constantly. Ask any IT leader about what keeps them up at night and vendor lock-in is certainly near, if not at, the top of the list. And while network, storage and compute have long been democratized by virtualization, one discipline has held out as the last bastion of vendor lock-in: […]
DevSecOps for Databases: Data Masking, Cloud Backup, WAF and More
DevSecOps is everywhere. More and more organizations realize that the traditional separation between DevOps and security is wasteful and dangerous. As a result, they are rushing to integrate security into all their software development processes. Adding security to containerized applications, cloud resources and other parts of modern DevOps infrastructure is already well understood. But what […]
Neo4j Will Use Funds to Expand Managed Cloud Database
In July 2021, Neo4j announced a large round of fundraising—its largest to date. Philip Rathle talked with Alan Shimel about how the capital will be used to further Neo4j’s go-to-market strategy and what that means for DevOps professionals. The video of the conversation is below, followed by a transcript. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. […]
The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures
One way of saving time when writing code is with stored procedures; prepared SQL code that you can save so the code can be reused over and over again. Stored procedures are a powerful vehicle for speeding up your code and giving you gains in performance. Stored procedures have many benefits—they can be easily modified, […]
Couchbase Revamps DBaaS Based on Document Database
Couchbase Inc. has unfurled a revamped database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform dubbed Couchbase Capella hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Scott Anderson, senior vice president for product management for Couchbase, said that as application development continues to evolve, it’s becoming apparent more organizations prefer to have providers of databases manage those platforms on their behalf. […]
InfluxData Simplifies AppDev for Time-Series Databases
During an online InfluxDays North America 2021 Virtual Experience conference, InfluxData today expanded the capabilities of its application development tools using its Flux query language on top of its time-series database. The company has enhanced its InfluxDB Notebooks tool to enable developers to quickly set up an alert, build a task or write a Flux […]
Verica Launches Database for Sharing IT Incident Reports
Verica, a provider of an incident management platform, announced this week it is making available a database to make incident reports publicly available via a single repository. Courtney Nash, senior research analyst at Verica, said the Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) initiative is part of an effort to enable organizations to learn from outages and […]
How to Pivot and Join Time-Series Data in Flux
Merging multiple time-series in InfluxDB using Flux may seem like a daunting task. This in-depth Flux tutorial will explain how to pivot, time shift and join time series in InfluxDB. In this InfluxDB tutorial, we will show you how to create an accurate overview of multiple time series with industrial data captured in consecutive production […]
Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps
Companies have seen unprecedented change over the past year and a half, with IT teams trying to help businesses weather the storm by meeting customer demands for services and products to be delivered in new ways while adjusting to remote work. As more companies introduced hybrid approaches to their workplace, a particular trend began to […]
MongoDB’s Atlas Turns Five
In June 2021, Andrew Davidson, VP of cloud products at MongoDB, talked with Alan Shimel about MongoDB and the fifth anniversary of launching Atlas, the company’s database-as-a-service offering. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Alan Shimel: Hi, everyone. Welcome to another segment here on TechStrong […]
4 Benefits of Integrating a Language With a Database
One of the hallmarks of a truly modern programming language is the coupling of a language—for creating applications, devising algorithms and solving business problems—with an underlying database. When there is practically no separation between a database and its programming language, developers immensely increase their productivity, maximize the effectiveness of the code they write and provide […]
Google Donates Sqlcommenter to OpenTelemetry Project
Google announced today that Sqlcommenter, an open source project that provides access to an object-relational mapping (ORM) auto-instrumentation library, is being merged with OpenTelemetry, an open source project for building agent software to instrument applications. Nimesh Bhagat, a product manager for Google, said Sqlcommenter is designed to make it simpler to correlate application and database […]
The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls
The rise of hybrid IT and the accelerated adoption of cloud-native apps have evolved traditional database design, management and monitoring. Workloads are rapidly shifting to the cloud and application performance is heavily dependent on the performance of the underlying database. Meanwhile, the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to make significant changes in the last […]
DevOps Database Platforms Slash DX Bottlenecks
An enterprise with many databases and various data requirements for DevOps continuous delivery presents a problem. For example, test data provisioning is a challenge today, particularly in pre-release testing of database updates. Standard practices involve shared database environments that need to be maintained from one test to the next, slowing test cycles and generally not […]