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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. #include <sys/time.h> > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i, ret; struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz; for (i = 0; i.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. When we set out to create the new Lambda extension, we benchmarked other dedicated Lambda monitoring solutions that were already on the market. Stay tuned?for functionality?in

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) Since then, the stock price has increased more than 600%.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c include <sys/time.h>

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The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. This helps identify potential issues and fine-tune the partitioning strategy. Any partitioning strategy should improve query performance , not lead to suboptimal queries — test and benchmark strategies before implementation.