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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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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems.

All Things Distributed

Stanfords Disco, the predecessor of VMWare, uses a full hardware virtualization approach, where Cambridges Xen introduced us to paravirtualization. Harris, Alex Ho, Rolf Neugebauer, Ian Pratt, Andrew Warfield, in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 19-22, 2003, Bolton Landing, NY USA.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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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. driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 . hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80 current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware .

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HammerDB Best Practice for PostgreSQL Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This limitation is at the database level rather than the hardware level, nevertheless with up to date hardware (from mid-2018) PostgreSQL on a 2 socket system can be expected to deliver more than 2M PostgreSQL TPM and 1M NOPM with the HammerDB TPC-C test. . CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. hammerdbcli.

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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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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. We need mechanisms that enable the mass production of data using software and hardware capabilities. How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data.