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

Percona

MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. But, for a long time, you needed to be comfortable with mysqldump or other backup / restore methods to move servers or providers. But WordPress brought MySQL and open source to the masses.

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Save Money in AWS RDS: Don’t Trust the Defaults

Percona

Recently I was engaged in a MySQL Performance Audit for a customer to help troubleshoot performance issues that led to downtime during periods of high traffic on their AWS RDS MySQL instances. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

All-traffic monitoring, analysis on demand—network performance management started to grow as an independent engineering discipline. Real-time network performance analysis capabilities, including SSL decryption, enabled precise reconstruction of end user application states through the analysis of network traffic.

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Proof of Concept: Horizontal Write Scaling for MySQL With Kubernetes Operator

Percona

In shard-nothing, each shard can live in a totally separate logical schema instance / physical database server/data center/continent. As illustrated above, ProxySQL allows us to set up a common entry point for the application and then redirect the traffic on the base of identified sharding keys. The POC Why this POC?

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

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Quick Data Archival in MySQL Using Partitions

Percona

To speed up the above query we need to create an appropriate index so that the query can be executed in minimal time and have less impact on server performance. If we are using binlog_format as ROW, a huge number of bin logs would be created which could choke I/O of servers and require extra cleanup. What is partitioning?

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

These days, with mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic , it’s fair to assume that the very first encounter of your prospect customers with your brand will happen on a mobile device. This goes way beyond basic optimizations such as color contrast and server response times.

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