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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

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself. Is MongoDB free to use?

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving.

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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. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Benchmark before you decide.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” The future of HTTP/2 server push. You can find him on Twitter @ patrickhamann or catch him on the speaker circuit. Billy Hoffman.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. The third generation, called Reloaded , has been online for about seven years and has proven to be stable and massively scalable. While we were at it, we also made improvements to scalability, reliability, security, and other system qualities.

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Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems. The global default can be set at server startup. You must understand how to use indexes to make sorting cheaper.