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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. Comments (). Malo, France.

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What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Dotcom-Montior

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. To think about it another way, site reliability engineering is where the traditional IT role, or system administration role, and DevOps meet. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

As with the previous guides as an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) the examples are taken from a MySQL 8 on Linux on Intel system and the approach is the same for whatever system you are testing although some of the settings you see may be different. System Setup: CPU, Memory and I/O Configuration. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

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HammerDB Best Practice for PostgreSQL Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This post gives a HOWTO guide on system configuration for achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB PostgreSQL TPC-C test. Firstly for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for PostgreSQL OLTP performance at the time of writing. CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. CPU Configuration.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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