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The latest News and Information on Databases and related technologies.

What is Dragonfly?

Discover the power of Dragonfly: Scalability, resilience, and real-time messaging. Uncover the benefits of this cutting-edge in-memory data store solution now! Dragonfly is a performant and memory-efficient drop-in replacement for Redis®, utilizing a modern multi-threaded shared-nothing architecture. That’s it! In essence, we have already captured the ambitious mission of Dragonfly.

Maximizing Cloud SQL database availability

How does Cloud SQL achieve near-zero downtime? Join Debi Cabrera as she interviews Product Manager, Rahul Deshmukh. Rahul discusses the various capabilities of Cloud SQL and the best practices to maximize business continuity for applications. Watch along and hear firsthand from the session speaker about configuring and monitoring Cloud SQL for maximum availability.

Time Series Databases (TSDBs) Explained

Time series data is becoming more prevalent across many industries. Indeed, it is no longer limited to financial data. As the need to handle time-stamped data increases, the demand for specialized databases to handle this type of data has also grown. The solution: Time series databases. In this introduction guide, we'll explain all the basics you need to know about time series databases, including what they are, how they work and are applied, and some of their benefits.

Monitor Supabase databases and Edge Functions

When cloud service providers first started popping up, many developers were “wowed” by being able to spin up and scale all kinds of infrastructure to deploy their web applications on demand. However, big-box cloud service providers are often complex to use, scaling out is expensive and default monitoring solutions are not very insightful. Besides, we are spoiled developers, and we expect things to be easy.

Comparing Performance and Resource Usage: Grafana Agent vs. Prometheus Agent Mode vs. VictoriaMetrics vmagent

Monitoring and observability are critical components of modern IT infrastructures, enabling organizations to gain insights into the performance, health, and security of their systems. Agents play a crucial role in gathering and forwarding telemetry from various sources to observability platforms.

Time Series, InfluxDB, and Vector Databases

Integrating time series data with the power of vector databases opens up a new frontier for analytics and machine learning applications. Time series data, characterized by its sequential order and timestamps, is pivotal in monitoring and forecasting across various domains, from financial markets to IoT devices. InfluxDB, a leading time series database, excels in handling such data with high efficiency and scalability.