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Scalable network infrastructure in Layer 3 with BGP
Large environments such as clouds pose demands on the network, some of which cannot be met with Layer 2 solutions. The Border Gateway Protocol jumps into the breach in Layer 3 and ensures seamlessly scalable networks.
PostgreSQL Replication Update
High availability, replication, and scaling are everyday necessities in the database world. What features does PostgreSQL offer in this context, and how good are they?
End-to-end monitoring – Measuring what the user perceives
Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.
Performance troubleshooting on Microsoft SQL Server
Use Microsoft SQL Server diagnostic tools to troubleshoot bottlenecks and other performance problems.
Software-defined wide area networks
A natural consequence of software-defined storage and software-defined data centers is the software-defined wide area network, or the Internet connections between locations and cloud services.
Grafana and time series databases
We look at database back ends for monitoring, alerting, and trending analysis in the Grafana visualization tool.
Take your pick from a variety of AWS databases
We look at the variety of databases available in Amazon Web Services – from relational, to NoSQL, to data warehouses for petabyte data volumes.
Cleaning up your Linux server
Even in the best environments, a little housekeeping is necessary.
OpenStack Trove for users, sys admins, and database admins
Trove brings DBaaS to OpenStack; however, the service needs meaningful configuration for optimum performance.
ZAP provides automated security tests in continuous integration pipelines
Despite the abundance of tools that test code and help improve the effectiveness of a continuous integration pipeline, automated security testing is much more difficult to get right than it might appear.
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