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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

In fact, the opposite is true, thanks to an active and vibrant global community of developers who work continuously to improve open source software. With open source database software, anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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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. Dynatrace PurePath technology enabled application engineers to radically improve the quality of services and software. Because we knew it would come… The Software Intelligence wave.

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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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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For more information: Head of Software Development  . a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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