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Understanding Whether Your MongoDB Indexes Are Effective

06/09/17 One of the variables that can have a major impact on your MongoDB performance is the way you implement indexes. While it’s a good idea to use indexes in some form, you nee…

How to Tell if Your MongoDB Server Is Correctly Sized For Your Working Set

06/05/17 For MongoDB users, knowledge of working sets is critical. Understanding the interactions between your working set and physical memory can make a major difference in how yo…

Common Pitfalls When Using database/sql in Go

03/23/17 We’re huge fans of the Go language and its database access library, database/sql. As you’ve probably seen firsthand, the surface area of database/sql is pretty small, but …

Shopify Eliminates High Latency Queries From Redis and MySQL

02/11/17 As intuitive and streamlined as ecommerce technology might seem from the user’s perspective, it involves so much data that engineering ingenuity and smart database managem…

Etsy’s Use of Performance Testing in Development

02/02/17 In a recent case study, we profiled Etsy and learned about how a high-performance data platform helps keep Etsy’s global community engaged. In that study, Etsy’s engineeri…

Three Things That Differentiate Amazon Aurora From MySQL

01/27/17 It’s not always obvious what makes one database type distinct from another. What are the most significant ways Amazon Aurora is different from MySQL? Clear separators aren…

5 Tips for DBAs on Working Remotely

01/19/17 For many professionals who’ve never had the chance to try it, full-time remote work might seem like pure upside—even luxurious. On days when rush hour commutes, shared fri…

Solving MySQL Replication Lag With LOGICAL_CLOCK and Calibrated Delay

01/13/17 Preetam Jinka published a post on his personal blog examining how his engineering team had overcome a problem with MySQL replication by using a new parallelization policy …

The Virtues of a Code Slush

12/19/16 People tend to look for sturdy, expansive safety nets when facing risky situations. In database management, organizations turn to the sweeping strategy of code freezes dur…

Everyday Profiling and Calculating Query CPU

12/09/16 When you find spikes in your database’s CPU consumption, locating the cause behind those peaks can be a daunting task. Database server software doesn’t make it easy to pre…

Monitoring for Black Friday: Capacity Planning Techniques

11/23/16 In our latest webinar, Baron Schwartz talked about how to best prepare for potential traffic spikes during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Although some organizations may n…

What is ACID and How Should I Think About It As a Developer?

11/09/16 For the average reader, the phrase “expert in ACID” most likely evokes a picture of either an eminent chemist or a jolly Deadhead. However, in the world of computer scienc…