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Complete guide to StarRocks monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. Covers resource saturation, cluster health, and application availability alerts with PromQL expressions and runbooks.
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Analyze real-world database schema designs from companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb. Learn practical patterns for e-commerce, social media, and IoT applications.
A production guide to TimescaleDB — hypertable setup, automatic chunk management, columnar compression policies, retention policies, continuous aggregates with time_bucket(), and comparison against InfluxDB and Prometheus.
Build a MySQL CDC pipeline using binlog and Kafka — Debezium, Maxwell, or Canal — trade-offs and production setup
Reduce AWS RDS MySQL costs by 40-60% with proven optimization strategies. Learn Reserved Instance planning, right-sizing, storage optimization, and read replica strategies.
Use Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed workloads — consistency levels, partitioning, and API choices
A practical guide to database sharding strategies — hash sharding, range sharding, directory-based sharding — with trade-offs, resharding complexity, and decision criteria for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Achieve microsecond latencies at scale with Aerospike. Learn hybrid memory architecture, strong consistency, cross-datacenter replication, and use cases for AdTech and fraud detection.
A complete guide to PostgreSQL replication — streaming replication setup, logical replication for selective table sync, synchronous standby configuration, monitoring replication lag, and failover with Patroni.
A production guide to MySQL full-text search — FULLTEXT index creation, MATCH AGAINST in natural language and boolean modes, the 50% rule, InnoDB vs MyISAM FTS, combining with B-tree indexes, and comparison against Elasticsearch.
RTO and RPO drive backup decisions. This guide covers mysqldump, XtraBackup, pgBackRest, WAL archiving, S3 object lock, and the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule.
Configure PostgreSQL logical replication for selective table sync, zero-downtime upgrades, and multi-tenant setups
Optimize AWS RDS PostgreSQL costs without sacrificing performance. Learn instance sizing, storage class selection, backup strategies, and Multi-AZ optimization.
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