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 deploy the Heimdall Proxy to provide low latency performance without application changes. This blog explains how you can...
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...
by Erik Bransberg | May 18, 2021 | AWS, HA Failover, VMware Greenplum, Web Scale
Erik Brandsberg, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), delivered a highly informative and in-depth technical presentation focused on the capabilities and limitations of two widely used PostgreSQL proxies, namely Pg-Bouncer and PgPool-II. This educational session is...
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...
