All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. We’ll continue to add new infrastructure to grow our footprint and make AWS as useful as possible for all of our customers around the world.

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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Analytics 127

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Capturing data is critical to understanding how your applications and infrastructure are performing at any given time. The data is incredibly plentiful and difficult to store over long periods due to capacity limitations — a reason why private and public cloud storage services have been a boon to DevOps teams. What is telemetry data?

Open Source 224

Open Source Metrics Cloud Transportation 224

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Some relatively minor additions (e.g.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145