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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. A container is a small, self-contained, fully functional software package that can run an application or service, isolated from other applications running on the same host.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

Due to concerns in the open source software community about the future of MySQL after the acquisition, MariaDB was created in 2009 by Michael Widenius (one of the original creators of MySQL), who named the new software after his daughter Maria. InnoDB, the default engine, is known for its excellent transactional capabilities.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. Comments (). License Includedâ??

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Ten Recommendations for Running Your MongoDB Environment

Percona

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. Indexing can help to speed up read queries, but it comes with an extra cost of storage, and they will slow down write operations.

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Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. This allows for a very fine-grain control of software and data configuration. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Comments ().

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote an ftrace toolkit, [perf-tools], and the article [Ftrace: the hidden light switch]. - **perf**: since 2009, this started as a PMC profiler but can do tracing now as well, usually in a dump-and-post-process style. They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration.