Read the original article at Anatomy of a Performance Review

A lot of firms come to us with a specific scalability problem. “Our user base is growing rapidly and the website is falling over!” Or they’re selling more widgets, “Our shopping cart is slowing down and we’re seeing users abandon their purchases”. These are real startup growing pains, so what to do?

We like to take a measured approach with these types of challenges, so we thought it would be helpful to run through a hypothetical scenario and see how we work.

Having trouble with scalability? Check out our 5 things toxic to scalability piece. …

Database Administration and Management is as important under MySQL as it is under other enterprise database platforms such as Oracle or SQL Server.  Be proactive with your database operations, and avoid outage or loss of your most crucial data.

• MySQL Management and administration
• MySQL Performance, Optimization & tuning
• Remote Database Management
• Database monitoring & metrics collection
• MySQL Security Auditing
• Migrating applications and data to MySQL
• Migrating MySQL to the Amazon cloud
• Migrating MySQL to Amazon RDS
• Amazon RDS management & administration
• MySQL scalability
• Amazon RDS scalability
• MySQL High Availability
• MySQL Disaster Recovery
• Database Management & replication for highly available architectures
• Database security in the cloud

…

Amazon EC2 and cloud computing offer great promise for startups to ramp up their online presence quickly.  Navigate those challenges with an strong partner.  We bring 20 years experience to the table with each new client.

• Scaling Web Applications
• MySQL High Availability in Amazon EC2
• Amazon Multi-AZ Deployments
• Amazon RDS Deployments
• Migrating to Amazon EC2
• Migrating to MySQL
• Managing Backups and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
• Horizontal Scalability of MySQL on EC2
• Horizontal Scalability on Cloud Hosted Servers
• Evaluating Cloud Providers
• Evaluating MySQL Distributions and Platforms
• Strong Customer Facing Skills
• Integrate Directly with Development Team
• Agile …

Modern internet infrastructure are complex.  Components and services are prone to failure.  Resiliency involves building redundancy, best practices and processes into your architecture to make you able to bend and not break.

• Migrating to cloud service providers
• Rearchitecting and refactoring applications to scale
• Scaling the database tier - MySQL and Oracle
• Building redundancy into every layer
• Deploying object caches - memcache
• Deploying page caches - varnish
• Migrating to Innodb - transactional storage engine
• Infrastructure design
• Infrastructure automation
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity with cloud deployments

Call or Skype us in New York City +1-212-533-6828