All Things Distributed
JULY 20, 2012
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. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. Comments (). blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.
Dotcom-Montior
OCTOBER 6, 2021
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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SQL Performance
JANUARY 23, 2020
The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waiting queries mean waiting applications and users, and no one likes to wait!
HammerDB
OCTOBER 12, 2018
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
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 21, 2022
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. as a result there were product and messaging changes.
HammerDB
OCTOBER 8, 2018
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.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 20, 2017
That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. We need mechanisms that enable the mass production of data using software and hardware capabilities. The end effect is that the complexity of the system increases, which is not efficient.
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