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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. Azure Lsv2 Details.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] , Nov 2011 [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] , Feb 2012 [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] , 2013 [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Serverless at re:Invent 2017

The Symphonia

Correspondingly, 3GB functions should see a 2x CPU performance improvement over 1.5GB Lambdas, but this is through doubling the number of cores the function has access to, rather than double the virtualized time-slices. Despite the fanfare, therefore, AWS is still behind Microsoft Azure Functions when it comes to debug tooling.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be product: Virtual Disk. Msft Virtual Disk 1.0 lshw -class disk.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. With Percona, you can also have on-demand or round-the-clock expert support and services for MongoDB regardless of whether your infrastructure is on-premises, in the cloud, or in a DBaaS, bare metal, virtualized, or containerized environment. Is MongoDB free for commercial use?

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do.