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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

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

Scalegrid

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. These new applications are a great way for enterprise companies to test out PostgreSQL before migrating their entire infrastructure. Compatibility.

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Evolving Container Security With Linux User Namespaces

The Netflix TechBlog

Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017. In 2017, we worked with our partner, Kinvolk , to have patches added to the Linux kernel that allowed users to safely use FUSE from non-init user namespaces. Notice how no privilege escalation mechanism was used to perform any of these actions.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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A Tutorial on MongoDB Sharding With Best Practices & When To Enable It

Percona

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow. An example is running MongoDB on Mesos.

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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 Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations.

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