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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

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Database Server Lifecycle for MySQL and MariaDB

Percona

released in 2021. To address this burden, the new Innovation Release Model launched at the end of 2021, similar to how Ubuntu Linux is developed — quarterly releases are maintained for one year only while there are select long-term support releases, which are to be supported for at least five years as before. MariaDB 10.1

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Core Web Vitals for Search Engine Optimisation: What Do We Need to Know?

CSS Wizardry

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Here begins our 2021 adventure. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Trickle-down user experience from developer-experience is, in 2021, as fully falsified as the Laffer Curve.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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MOVEit vulnerability: Observability context fills log data gaps for MOVEit Transfer vulnerability

Dynatrace

When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database. As a zero-day vulnerability, however, threat actors could have been exploiting the vulnerability since 2021 , when the vulnerability was introduced into the software.

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Protecting critical infrastructure and services: Ensure efficient, accurate information delivery this election year

Dynatrace

To address this, state and local governments are adopting multicloud environments to achieve the necessary speed, scale, and agility to keep up with faster digital transformation. Causes can run the gamut, from coding errors and database slowdowns to hosting or network performance issues.