by Roland Lee | Jul 6, 2020 | Azure, Web Scale
Background In using databases as a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments are finding unexpected problems in particular when using DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service). One of these challenges is in connection management. There are three areas where...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 7, 2019 | Azure, Performance, Web Scale
Caching Challenges Application-database inefficiency (e.g. repeated queries, network latency) is a primary cause of performance bottlenecks. Many use Redis to improve responsiveness. However, developers are challenged to know what to cache, what to invalidate and to...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 6, 2019 | Azure, Web Scale
Heimdall Data, a Microsoft Technology partner, offers a database proxy to improve the write-master / read replica scale in the Azure backend without application changes. Background Horizontally scaling out your SQL database (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server) involves...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 3, 2019 | Azure, HA Failover, Performance, Web Scale
One of the main causes of slow application performance is inefficient interaction between the application and database. Today, developers spend precious resources on building home grown solutions to optimize SQL performance. For IT organizations, they are dependent...
