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Simplyblock Byte – Issue 2025-01/2

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Dear Simplyblock Community,

We’re already over 6% into 2025—time truly flies! In the meantime, storage continues to sit at the heart of modern infrastructure, with innovations shaping how we manage data for databases, Kubernetes, and beyond. In our recent blogs, we revisited core principles, examining how the physics of storage directly impacts system performance. While advancements in abstraction layers surge ahead, it’s crucial to remember that performance ultimately remains tied to physical realities.

This edition offers practical insights and tools to help you evaluate and optimize your storage capabilities. Dive into the critical role of storage in database performance, explore your actual EBS usage with our new tool, and uncover the value of thin provisioning—a key strategy for storage efficiency. Don’t forget to join us next Wednesday (January 29th) at the “All in Kubernetes” event in Berlin, where Kubernetes aficionados will explore the future of Kubernetes-driven architectures, with a spotlight on stateful workloads, Big Data, and AI.

Rob Pankow, CEO, Simplyblock

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Simplyblock is proud to present the new roadshow All in Kubernetes with its first installment in Berlin on January 29th. If you are interested in Kubernetes or stateful workloads on Kubernetes and are in Berlin, there is no time to waste—join us!

  • Talk 1: Cross-Zone Network Traffix Monitoring in Kubernetes (Frederic Branczyk)
  • Talk 2: Postgres on Kubernetes: Dos and Don’ts (Chris Engelbert)

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Database Performance: Impact of Storage Limitations

When operating a database, storage is an infrastructure component with major impact on your database performance. While often an afterthought behind out-scaling, fault tolerance, and RAM usage, access latency and its limiting boundaries on database performance are crucial. They can bring higher scale at a lower cost when done right.

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We Built a Tool to Help You Understand Your Real EBS Usage

What is your actual EBS usage? How much IOPS and throughput do you use? With storage being one of the main cost factors of cloud services such as Amazon’s AWS, you should. This tool helps you right away.

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