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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L.

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Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Site reliability engineering: 5 things to you need to know

Dynatrace

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes to help organizations create highly reliable and scalable software systems. ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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HammerDB: Using MySQL 5.7 vs 8.0 to understand performance profiles

HammerDB

One of the most important concepts in analysing database performance is that of understanding scalability. Plotting these data points enables us to understand the scalability of the database software being tested on that system. Then we can run an interactive workload for a single Virtual User as follows for MySQL 8.0.25./hammerdbcli

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

On the other hand if testing MySQL or MariaDB for the ability to handle a more complex workload such as the use of stored procedures and in particular if looking to compare scalability with a traditional database then HammerDB is focused more towards testing those enterprise features. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. dbset db mysql.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. July 20 Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Vuser 1:1 Active Virtual Users configured Vuser 1:TEST RESULT : System achieved 1844256 NOPM from 4232155 PostgreSQL TPM Vuser 1:FINISHED SUCCESS ALL VIRTUAL USERS COMPLETE. hammerdbcli auto pgtime.tcl HammerDB CLI v4.4 hammerdbcli auto pgtime.tcl HammerDB CLI v4.4 Vuser 1:Test complete, Taking end Transaction Count. 700% Faster.