Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Not so much.

Open Source 92

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Latch enforcement ​​ changes the ​​ virtual ​​ memory protection ​​ ( VirtualProtect ) ​​ as the ​​ database ​​ pages are transitioned between the clean and dirty states.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40