DATABASE PERFORMANCE AT SCALE IBD

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Discover critical considerations and best practices for improving database performance based on what has worked,áand failed,áacross thousands of teams and use cases in the field. This open access book provides practicaláguidance for understanding theádatabase-related opportunities, trade-offs, and traps you might encounter while trying to optimize data-intensive applications for high throughput and low latency. Whether you are building a new system from the ground up or trying to optimize an existing use caseáfor increased demand, this book covers the essentials.The book begins with a look at the many factors impacting database performance at the extreme scale that todayâÇÖs game changing applications face-or at least hope to achieve. YouâÇÖll gain insight into the performance impact of both technical and business requirements, and how those should influence your decisions around databaseáinfrastructureáand topology. The authors share an inside perspective on often-overlooked engineering details that could be constraining-or helping-your teamâÇÖs database performance. The book also covers benchmarking and monitoring practices by which to measure and validate the outcomes from the decisions that you make.The ultimate goal of the book is to help you discover new ways to optimize database performance for your teamâÇÖs specific use cases, requirements, and expectations.What You Will LearnUnderstand often overlooked factors that impact database performance at scaleRecognize data-related performance and scalability challenges associated with your project Select a database architecture thatâÇÖs suited to your workloads, use cases, and requirementsAvoid common mistakes that could impede your long-term agility and growthJumpstart teamwide adoption of best practices for optimizing database performance at scaleWho This Book Is ForIndividuals and teams looking to optimize distributed database performance for an existing project or to begin a new performance-sensitive project with a solid and scalable foundation. This will likely include software architects, database architects, and senior software engineersáwho are either experiencing or anticipating pain related to database latency and/or throughput.