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Network devices overheat monitoring Problem to solve Monitoring our network devices is important to ensure a good quality of service for our customers. In particular, avoiding any overheat safety shutdowns is critical, even if we ensure failure resilience in our infrastructure with device redundancy. In the best scenario, if a device falls, its twin is […]
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In our previous blog post about observability, we explained how to build a comprehensive view of how your SQL workloads behave, and the many reasons why it is important to have this view. In this blog post, we will take a closer look into the four types of SQL query, and how they can impact
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Our team of database administrators used to be overwhelmed by our developers’ needs. Picture this: we had only 1.5 database admins per more than 400 tech people (DevOps, developers etc.), with only 24 hours in a day! This was a perfect use-case for observability. But what is observability, apart from a buzzword? To me, observability is
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In our tour of OVHcloud’s Internal Databases Infrastructure, we showed you what our infrastructure looks like. This post will be about SQL replication, why it matters, and how we use it at OVHcloud. Nodes are not enough: they have to work together. To do that, we rely on a feature called replication to keep data
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Today, most applications rely directly or indirectly on databases. I would even take a bet and say that a large portion of those are relational databases. At OVHcloud, we rely on several dozens of clusters hosting hundreds of databases to power thousands of applications. Most of those databases power our API, host billing information and
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