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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. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) 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 is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. Finally it is also important to note that this comparison is focused around OLTP based workloads, HammerDB also supports a TPC-H based workload for analytics with complex ad-hoc queries. H ammerDB CLI v3.1.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. If data take center stage then companies must learn how to create added value out of it – namely by combining the data they own with external data sources and by using modern, automated analytics processes.