The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. We now believe that when it comes to selecting a database, no single database technology â?? Comments ().

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. We’ll see it in compliance. We’ll see it in healthcare. We’ll see it in banking.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, it’s not an understatement when I say that Citus is one of the more interesting technologies that I’ve come across when scaling PostgreSQL. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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