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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. In addition, MariaDB provides optimal scalability options, making it ideal for growing workloads. Contact us to learn more! What is MySQL?

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

In simple terms, an open source database is this: It’s a database with source code that is free and available to all. Open source standards and community support enable developers and DBAs to focus on accelerating feature creation and on enhancing availability, performance, scalability, and security.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. It makes experiments repeatable and scalable so teams can apply them to future experiments of the same or larger stacks. Controlling the chaos.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 43 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. Next Digital operates on AWS in a more highly available and fault-tolerant environment than their previous colocation solution.

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It’s time to migrate from NAM to Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Introducing network probes: the new scalability challenges were solved with products like NV and AV. But end users kept complaining about slow applications, and despite increasing costs and control over networks, the baseline of end user experience wasn’t available. The network performance engineer who managed the sniffer was the guru.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. In 2010, having seemingly gone all-in with the tenets of open source development , the company brought MongoDB to the market as an open source database server.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Caching has become a standard component in many applications to achieve a fast and predictable performance, but maintaining a collection of cache servers in a reliable and scalable manner is not a simple task. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Contact Info.

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