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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

But, for a long time, you needed to be comfortable with mysqldump or other backup / restore methods to move servers or providers. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general?

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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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. However, now with the Helsinki edge server in production, this helps further close the gap between visitors who live in Finland and the nearest KeyCDN POP they have access to. Happy content delivery!

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. to answer, an answer that directs further tuning: whether you need to separate applications on different disks, or tune one application's disk workload. ## Why did this take so long? I would have guessed that this answers the question: are the disks seeking?

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. to answer, an answer that directs further tuning: whether you need to separate applications on different disks, or tune one application's disk workload. ## Why did this take so long? I would have guessed that this answers the question: are the disks seeking?

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

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. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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