by heimdalladmin | Sep 29, 2021 | AWS
Applications with a Global footprint have multiple challenges facing them, in particular when the global application edge directly accesses databases to build custom pages for end-users such as apps using AWS Lambda@Edge. The two main challenges include availability...
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...
by heimdalladmin | May 18, 2021 | AWS
Antony Prasad Thevaraj, AWS Solutions Architect One of the primary causes of slow application performance is the inefficient interaction with the database. This can be caused by duplicate queries or an overwhelming number of queries accessing the database resulting...
by Erik Bransberg | Jul 12, 2020 | AWS, Web Scale
Background In using databases as a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments are finding unexpected problems when using DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service). One of these challenges is in connection. There are three areas where connection management can be a...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 17, 2019 | AWS
Companies deploy Amazon Redshift for large-scale MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data analytics. These systems apply parallel compute resources to answer queries quickly. However, there are still application performance challenges: Poor application interaction...
