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

Adrian Cockcroft

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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ChatGPT vs. MySQL DBA Challenge

Percona

However, it’s important to note that the optimal value may vary depending on your specific workload and hardware configuration. In general, the recommended value for innodb_thread_concurrency on a server with 10 CPUs is typically between 16 and 32. 16) and monitoring the server’s performance.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership.

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

In the European Commission’s white paper on artificial intelligence all three come together in an almost comical manner: the fear of a high-tech digital future; the need to protect oneself against it; and the complacency inherent in the belief that regulation is the solution. The dominant sentiment in modern-day Europe is anxiety.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

Failover ensures that if the primary MySQL server becomes unavailable due to hardware failure or another issue, the system seamlessly switches to a standby replica. To delve deeper into this topic and explore Percona’s recommendations for HA architecture and deployment, we invite you to download our white paper.

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