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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

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But, for a long time, you needed to be comfortable with mysqldump or other backup / restore methods to move servers or providers. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general?

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

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I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. percent availability in the event of a server, a rack of servers, or an Availability Zone failure. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

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With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. However, now with the Helsinki edge server in production, this helps further close the gap between visitors who live in Finland and the nearest KeyCDN POP they have access to. Happy content delivery!

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

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DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. How are we able to do this?

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

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