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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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How To Measure the Working Set Size on Linux

Brendan Gregg

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis.

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How To Measure the Working Set Size on Linux

Brendan Gregg

OSes usually show you virtual memory and resident memory, shown as the "VIRT" and "RES" columns in top. My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

WebServices, unfortunately, failed to deliver on the distributed systems front by having virtually all implementations using synchronous/blocking calls—which we all know is a recipe for scaling disaster. AWS, Kafka, Google Cloud, Spring, ElasticSearch). Schema evolution practices were rarely in place.