Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Consider alternative tools, systems, and services: Many cloud providers offer long-term storage, serverless options, or component options for specific needs, with vastly different pricing models.

Database 83

Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 83

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. Implementing the current requirement using that technique is quite straightforward, though the code is necessarily longer than anything we have seen up to this point: WITH R AS. ( The code may be easier to read and understand than the recursive CTE.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99