by heimdalladmin | Jan 10, 2022 | AWS, Case Study
Overview FaithSocial is a first-of-its-kind digital platform connecting Christians from all over the world to enriching resources and personalized content. They were looking for a solution that could handle the growing user count accessing Amazon RDS, while reducing...
by heimdalladmin | Jan 10, 2022 | AWS, Case Study
“Heimdall’s database proxy immediately solved a scaling issue without any code changes, which is a huge plus. It was easy to set up and contains a lot of options and features to fine tune for your specific need. They also provide very quick support with...
by heimdalladmin | Dec 3, 2021 | AWS, Web Scale
By Antony Prasad Thevaraj, Solutions Architect Getting the maximum scale from your database often requires fine-tuning the application which incurs time and cost. It’s productivity that could have been used towards other strategic initiatives. The Heimdall...
by heimdalladmin | Nov 30, 2021 | AWS
This is a supplemental guide to the AWS Blog Using Amazon Aurora Global Database for Low Latency without Application Changes. It provides details on how to configure the solution suggested. Solution Setup First, we will create an Aurora Global Database with a...
by heimdalladmin | Sep 29, 2021 | AWS, Web Scale
Deploying a global application to build custom pages for end-users has availability and performance challenges. This blog discusses how you can implement the Heimdall Proxy to provide low latency performance without application changes. Amazon Aurora Global...
by heimdalladmin | Aug 17, 2021 | GCP, Web Scale
Background Horizontally scaling your SQL database involves separating the write-master from read-only servers. This allows the write server to perform dedicated write operations while read queries are offloaded to separate replicas. However, this architecture may...
by heimdalladmin | Aug 17, 2021 | GCP, Web Scale
Application-database inefficiency (e.g. repeated queries, network latency) is a primary cause of performance bottlenecks. Query caching is used to improve database responsiveness and scale. But caching is not without its challenges; knowing what to cache and when to...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 3, 2021 | Other
Background Horizontally scaling your SQL database involves separating the write-master from read-only servers. This allows the write server to perform dedicated write operations rather than processing redundant read queries. However, writing to one node and reading...
by heimdalladmin | May 29, 2021 | AWS, Web Scale
Background Many have implemented database caching to improve responsiveness. However, developers are still challenged to know what to cache, what to invalidate and how to ensure that data is up-to-date. For a race car, performance is highly dependent on the skills of...
by Erik Bransberg | May 18, 2021 | AWS, HA Failover, VMware Greenplum, Web Scale
Erik Brandsberg, CTO presented an in-depth technical presentation on the capabilities and limitations of Pg-Bouncer and PgPool-II. For Postgres operators, you will find this very educational. The Heimdal Proxy is also compared and fills in feature gaps the open source...
