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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. And making lists. Top 10 Most Read.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. The Apica LoadTest solution uses innovative technologies like monitoring nodes and load clusters to reliably deliver and sustain a large-scale load of virtual users (VUs) to Hollywood for different, realistic user scenarios all at the same time.

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. Kubernetes has a massive community support and momentum behind it.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. Later on, in the 1980s, type started to be used in a digital context in computers. There are many different classifications of typefaces.

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

HammerDB

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . The first example shows a data load, the second a TPC-C based workload with 5 virtual users and the 2nd example with 10 virtual users. Checkpoint not complete. Checkpoint not complete.

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

Dynatrace

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. The virtual CPU is turned off. When using a platform, it always helps to have a rough idea of its inner workings.

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