Architectural considerations for high-volume streaming data on GCP

Streaming data plays a pivotal role in applications and industries where real-time information powers monitoring and analysis in high-stakes industries like finance, healthcare, manufacturing, e-commerce, and other data-driven businesses. Cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP), excel at processing and analyzing vast, fast-growing data. GCP's scalability, cost-effectiveness, managed services, global…

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How we Built a 19 PiB Logging Platform with ClickHouse and Saved Millions

Table of Contents # Introduction Choosing ClickHouse The scale of the problem ClickHouse Cloud infrastructure Building on top of ClickHouse Cloud Understanding your users Some early design decisions Choosing OpenTelemetry (OTel) Architectural overview Ingest processing Schema Enhancing Grafana Cross-region querying Performance and cost Looking forward Conclusion Introduction # We believe…

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SafetyDetectives: An Interview-With-Costa-Tsaousis

In a recent conversation with SafetyDetectives, Costa Tsaousis, CEO and founder of Netdata, shares insights into the inception and evolution of Netdata, a game-changing monitoring solution. With a background in fintech and a passion for real-time data processing, Tsaousis was driven to create Netdata in response to the significant gaps…

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World Backup Day – Top tips to protect your passwords

Blog World Backup Day - Top tips to protect your passwords On World Backup Day, we remember how important it is to backup our data. Perhaps that is your treasured digital photographs, or the novel you’ve been writing for the past several years. In almost every case, it means backing…

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Portainer and Docker 26

On the 20th of March 2024, version 26.0.0 of Docker was released. There are a number of changes in this release to be aware of, with one in particular causing issues with older versions of Portainer. Version 2.20.3 of Portainer, now available, includes fixes for the known incompatibilities with Docker 26, and we plan to add full support for Docker 26 in our next LTS release (2.21), due in a few months time.

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Maximize database performance with Oracle Exadata and Oracle Linux

Text Size 100%: - + Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Exadata) is an engineered system that delivers the ideal platform for running Oracle Database workloads at an optimal cost. Its scale-out architecture integrates the latest processors, intelligent storage servers, cutting-edge caching technologies, and advanced networking features. Customers can harness unique hardware and software…

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