Why Is My Cloud Database So Expensive?
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,
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,
A recent performance incident in a SQL database brought to light one of the most complex problems in data engineering: the cascading impact caused by
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
The cost of a database instance in the cloud is a direct function of the efficiency of its workload. Vertically scaling to mitigate CPU or
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