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New (Old) Paper.

n0derunner

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download. The authors are clear on why benchmarks remain important: “ Ideally, users could test performance in their own settings using real work- loads.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Scaling Media Machine Learning at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Even after gaining access, one needed to deal with the challenges of homogeneity across different assets in terms of decoding performance, size, metadata, and general formatting. Media Feature Storage: Amber Storage Media feature computation tends to be expensive and time-consuming.

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Using the Transparent Data Encryption Extension PG_TDE With PostgreSQL

Percona

Since our previous blog post, Adding Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL with pg_tde: Please Test , it received new features such as TOAST data encryption and HashiCorp Vault support for key storage. Pg_tde currently supports a local file-based key storage intended only for development and storage using Hashicorp Vault.

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

All Things Distributed

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. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Recommendations.