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 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 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...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 7, 2019 | Azure, 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
Background Horizontally scaling out your SQL database (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server) involves separating the write-master from read-only servers. This allows the write server to perform more intensive operations instead of processing read queries as well....
by heimdalladmin | Jun 3, 2019 | Azure, HA Failover, 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...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 11, 2019 | AWS, Web Scale
Application developers must balance time between coding features and improving performance and scalability. Most believe that focusing on functionality and features is the priority, but features and application response times go hand-in-hand. Slow performance can...
by Erik Bransberg | Nov 21, 2018 | Other
Please view the announcement at: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/say-hello-to-25-new-aws-competency-partners-added-in-october/. We look forward to working with AWS and assisting AWS customers in an way we...
