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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. As a result, teams can gain full visibility into their applications and multicloud infrastructure. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times. Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Neal, Matt, and others from Windows Storage, Windows Azure Storage, Windows Hyper-V, … validating Windows behaviors. · Any storage device that can survive a power outage. Starting with the Linux 4.18

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. Since we don’t need to run real-time queries on the data, we stream it into Google BigQuery’s streaming API for storage. We still have a lot of work to do!

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Digital Squalor

The Agile Manager

In the not too distant past, storage was limited and expensive. As recently as 1980, 1 megabyte of disk storage cost $200. Storage capacity is now so abundant and compact that you can record every voice conversation you’ll ever have in a device that can fit into the palm of your hand. But this is no longer the case.

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