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Organizations are rapidly adopting Apache Iceberg for their data lakes because it supports petabyte-scale growth and performance with the flexibility to evolve schemas and partitions without costly rewrites. Its architecture enables modern data lake management via features like time travel and incremental processing. However, managing Iceberg datasets efficiently can become a challenge over time as […]

Allcargo Global (Allcargo) is a powerhouse in integrated logistics that drives seamless supply chain solutions through its key subsidiaries—ECU Worldwide, the world’s largest LCL consolidator with presence in over 180 countries. They offer end-to-end logistics powered by digital platforms such as ECU360, ensuring speed, visibility, and efficiency across borders. With a strong focus on innovation […]

Every day, AWS customers process millions of compressed files in Amazon S3, from small ZIP archives to multi-gigabyte datasets. While decompressing a single file is straightforward, processing thousands of files efficiently requires complex orchestration, error handling, and infrastructure management. Consider this scenario: Your organization receives over 10,000 compressed files daily from partners, ranging from 5 […]

Operational excellence isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about delivering consistent availability when customers need it most. Achieving this requires sophisticated, real-time monitoring that tracks key system metrics and storage insights, such as throughput patterns, IOPS utilization, I/O characteristics, and storage distribution. This visibility enables teams to resolve issues proactively, right-size resources, optimize workload placement, and plan […]

Organizations running mission-critical applications and databases face challenges to ensure their systems can withstand unexpected storage performance degradation. Storage latency issues can emerge unpredictably in production environments and impact the business. Although unit, integration, and regression testing ensure that systems work under normal conditions, they don’t cover unexpected failures that result in expensive outages. This […]

Organizations of all sizes run their enterprise applications and databases in the cloud. These organizations may choose to run self-managed databases on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) rather than using the fully-managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) due to internal policies, Amazon RDS service maximums, and other reasons. When running self-managed databases in the cloud, there […]

As users progress in their cloud journey, they increasingly need robust storage options that integrate natively with containers to help them increase operational efficiency, improve performance, and reduce costs. Our users are finding that using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) meets this demand by using the Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. In this post, […]

As applications scale, developers face a persistent challenge: analytical queries that slow down transactional databases, force them to copy data across multiple proprietary tools, and create disconnected data silos. For the 5 million developers building on Supabase, an open source Postgres development platform, this tension between operational and analytical workloads has become increasingly critical. The […]

Organizations face a critical challenge in data protection: how to retain ever-increasing volumes of backup data for extended periods while maintaining cost efficiency. Regulatory mandates, internal governance policies, and comprehensive disaster recovery strategies often necessitate preserving backups for months or even years. At the same time, the threat landscape continues to evolve, with sophisticated ransomware […]

PingCAP is a global company focused on developing distributed, high-performance, and auto scaling relational databases. Its flagship product, TiDB, is a popular open source databases, and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on TiDB, delivers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability for high-performance applications. Many PingCAP customers run highly latency-sensitive workloads such […]