Database Locks and Deadlocks: The Definitive Guide for Effective Operations
For a DevOps or DBA managing mission-critical environments, few problems are as pungent and misunderstood as lock contention and deadlocks. They are subtle elements that
For a DevOps or DBA managing mission-critical environments, few problems are as pungent and misunderstood as lock contention and deadlocks. They are subtle elements that
Every software engineering team has a dashboard. On it, prominently displayed, shines the sacred metric: the CPU utilization of the main database. An alert is
Your monthly cloud provider bill arrives, and the amount attributed to the managed database service (AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL) is, once again,
Creating an index is, in isolation, the highest-impact optimization an engineer can apply to a database. A single successful CREATE INDEX statement can reduce a query’s latency
The hunt for slow queries, a time-honored practice in database performance optimization, is a trap. Engineers and DBAs are trained to look for executions that
Performance degradation in distributed systems is rarely a sudden event. It is a gradual, almost imperceptible erosion, until it manifests as a chronic problem: high
The root cause of latency in distributed applications lies, in the vast majority of cases, in the data layer. Diagnosing the origin of the problem,
In the world of IT management, there is a dangerous confusion between two fundamentally different concepts: monitoring and assessment. Many organizations believe that because they
The application is slow. Transactions take a long time, reports freeze, and the user experience degrades. The first solution that comes to the minds of
A database is a complex and dynamic asset, the operational heart of any modern company. As such, it requires more than just the monitoring of