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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007.

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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. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database? Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc.

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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. Here is a MySQL database server (mysqld), PID 423, and measuring its working set size for 0.1 That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. seconds (100 milliseconds): #./wss.pl

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e., Schema evolution practices were rarely in place. Most well-known is probably Apache Camel.

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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. Here is a MySQL database server (mysqld), PID 423, and measuring its working set size for 0.1 That's the working set size. It is used for capacity planning and scalability analysis. seconds (100 milliseconds): #./wss.pl

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. PWA Install Prompts.

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

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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