{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/priya_chakravarthi/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":""}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. Follow a few simple steps and your database cluster will be up and running in a matter of minutes. You can spin up clusters using the cloud control panel, CLI, or API.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic daily backups with point in time recovery: Data is one of the most important assets of an app, so it’s critical to backup your database. We take backups of your entire clusters automatically on a daily basis, for free. We also provide a point in time recovery for 7 days, that way if things go wrong due to human error, machine error, or some combination of both, you can easily restore the database as it was at any point in the previous 7 days. \n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic updates and access to latest MongoDB releases: You get access to MongoDB 4.4. 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Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. 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His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. 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Add a volume to your Droplet now.","spans":[{"start":23,"end":56,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/volumes"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-06-06","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"auto-format-and-mount"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Priya Chakravarthi","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":200,"height":200},"alt":"Priya Chakravarthi","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a764a7c4d900d2e77bbd3a25ad5b2a348063df40_image.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"priya_chakravarthi"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"droplets illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/da552a7e73a57ae8b974605a7ae65ccad3553db6_burstableblockstorage_blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Block Storage Volumes Gets a Performance Burst","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, we’ve been rapidly adding new products and features on our mission to simplify cloud computing, and today we're happy to announce our latest enhancement.","spans":[{"start":43,"end":68,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/2018-whats-shipping-next-on-digitalocean/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the first half of 2018, we've improved performance for Block Storage Volumes with backend upgrades that reduce cluster latency by 50% and provide new burst support for higher performance for spiky workloads.","spans":[{"start":60,"end":81,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-digitalocean-block-storage"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Burst Performance Characteristics","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Block Storage Volumes have a wide variety of use cases, like database reads and writes as well as storing logs, static assets, backups, and more. The performance expectations from a particular volume will depend on how it's used.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Database workloads, for example, need single-digit millisecond latency. Most workloads in the cloud today are bursty, however, and don't require sustained high performance at all times. Use cases like web servers, backups, and data warehousing can require higher performance due to short increases in traffic or a temporary need for more bandwidth.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To meet the need for very low latency, we upgraded Ceph to its latest version, Luminous v12.2.2, in all regions containing Block Storage. This reduced our cluster latency by 50% and provides the infrastructure you need to manage databases with Block Storage Volumes.","spans":[{"start":42,"end":136,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To support spiky workloads, we added burst support, which automatically increases Block Storage Volumes' IOPS and bandwidth rates for short periods of time (60 seconds) before returning to baseline performance to cool off (60 seconds).","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here's a summary of the burst performance characteristics, which compares a Standard Droplet (SD) plan and an Optimized Droplet (OD) plan:\nDroplet Plan\nSDODBaseline \nIOPS \n (in IOPS/volume)50007500Baseline BW\n(in MB/s)200300Burst IOPS\n (in IOPS/volume)750010000Burst BW\n(in MB/s)300350Avg Latency<10 ms<10 ms\nWe don't scale performance by the size of the volume you create, so every Block Storage Volume is configured to provide the same level of performance for your applications. However, your application needs to be written to realize these limits, and the kind of performance you get will depend on your app's configuration and a number of other parameters.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Performance and Latency Benchmarking","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To learn more about the performance you're getting, we wrote How To Benchmark DigitalOcean Volumes, which explains not only how to benchmark your volumes but also how to interpret the results.","spans":[{"start":61,"end":98,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-benchmark-digitalocean-volumes"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We then ran some of these tests internally to share the numbers and performance of our offering. You can find all the details in the tutorial, but here's a sample of results, which shows typical performance based on the queue depth (QD) of the application and the block size (on the x-axis) versus IOPS (on the y-axis).","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/2cef077b3573d7ee341b1fd93a7f67a48db4e36f_read-iops-graph.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Read IOPS graph","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":948,"height":588}},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/07699c7776781fdb0e63465d75e001ead074584d_read-throughput-graph.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Read Throughput graph","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":946,"height":580}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These graphs show that the IOPS rate increases as queue depth increases until we hit our practical IOPS cap. Smaller block sizes tend to be IOPS limited, while larger block sizes tend to be bandwidth limited.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What about latency? Most real-world customer applications won't run the same kind of workload often used as a baseline (QD = 1 4K I/O), so these graphs show latency in µsec (or microseconds) as we add load to the cluster.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/49f41fb6b09c3bfddb7bc5a99a4a520f4207a4cc_average-read-latency.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Average read latency","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":808,"height":230}},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/2a4fec7732ced832f752ea525bab70b45c2ea066_average-write-latency.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Average write latency","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":805,"height":229}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We see the same behavior in reads and writes. Because of how the backend storage stores the data, our results show that 16K has better latency at high queue depth, so we recommend you tune for 16K workloads if possible.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"What's Next?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The performance improvements aren’t the only thing we have in store. There are several QoS features and infrastructure investments in the pipeline to improve your experience of Block Storage Volumes. (Ready to get started? Create a Volume now.)","spans":[{"start":201,"end":243,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/volumes?i=3d8857"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback. Feel free to leave a comment here or reach out to us through our UserVoice.","spans":[{"start":123,"end":132,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-05-15","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"block-storage-volume-performance-burst"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Priya Chakravarthi","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":200,"height":200},"alt":"Priya Chakravarthi","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a764a7c4d900d2e77bbd3a25ad5b2a348063df40_image.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"priya_chakravarthi"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"Buildings illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b8d9443810e722690233cd99b95cbc2adecc0f15_blockstorage_ams_blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Block Storage Now Available in AMS3","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we're excited to share that Block Storage is available to Droplets in the AMS3 datacenter. With Block Storage, you can scale your storage independently of your compute and have more control over how you grow your infrastructure, enabling you to build and scale larger applications more easily. Block Storage has been a key part of our overall focus on strengthening the foundation of our platform to increase performance and enable our customers to scale.","spans":[{"start":35,"end":48,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've seen incredible engagement since our launch in July 2016. Users have created Block Storage volumes in SFO2, NYC1, NYC3, FRA1, SGP1, TOR1, BLR1, and LON1 to scale databases, take backups, store media, and much more. AMS3 is our ninth datacenter with Block Storage.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thanks to everyone who has given us feedback and used Block Storage so far. Please keep it coming. You can create your first Block Storage volume in AMS3 today!","spans":[{"start":107,"end":153,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new?distro=ubuntu&distroImage=ubuntu-16-04-x64&size=2gb®ion=ams3"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"— DigitalOcean Storage Team","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-01-09","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"block-storage-in-ams3"}}}]}}}