Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to 2023! reaches end-of-life status in October of 2023, so if you are using that release you need to plan to upgrade. For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape. This is the open source database conference, and you need to be present.

Database 88

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 88

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

According to McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 report, 40% of respondents said their organizations plan to increase their overall AI investment because of advancements in generative AI. But only 21% said their organizations have established policies governing employees’ use of generative AI technologies.

Artificial Intelligence 238

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 238

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like. So, what happens when there’s an unexpected crash or hardware failure?

Hardware 86

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 86

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. As of November 2023: Two-thirds (67%) of our survey respondents report that their companies are using generative AI. 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Late in 2023, we suspect that relatively few companies have a policy.

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. According to a Gartner report, “By 2023, 60% of organizations will use infrastructure automation tools as part of their DevOps toolchains, improving application deployment efficiency by 25%.”.

Serverless 274

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps 274

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

The original motivation for FB was due to different hardware generations, especially between regions/data centers. er tail: cannot open ‘/data/mysql/prod3306.er’ err 2023-07-10T05:26:42.521994Z 0 [System] [MY-010910] [Server] /usr/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete (mysqld 8.0.19-10) AFAIK Facebook does this.

Programming 84

Programming Servers Database Hardware 84

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Picture by Adrian — Ka’anapali sunset 2023 There’s been a lot of discussion about platforms recently, I talked about why I think it’s a current hot meme on the WTF Podcast with Charles Humble recently, and Sam Newman just wrote a blog post “ Don’t call it a platform ”.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. The best way to describe the Citus way of doing things is to reflect how data is managed by a disk RAID array.

C++ 79

C++ Database Storage Testing 79

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was a great privilege. ## SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Therefore, DBAs must take a piecemeal approach to achieve HA with PostgreSQL, bringing together open source extensions and tools from multiple sources. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

SREcon 2023 CFP Tech moves fast, however, and I have little time to reflect on 2022 when there's 2023 to plan! I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

Here’s what I did: In December 2023 I installed the official ChatGPT iOS app from OpenAI on my iPhone and used its voice input mode to hold several hour-long conversations with it while driving long-distance on California highways. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains).

Entertainment 72

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 72

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. MySQL backups play a pivotal role in safeguarding the integrity of your data, providing defense against various unforeseen calamities, hardware malfunctions, data loss, corruption, and inadvertent deletions. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter?

Best Practices 78

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 78

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Percona XtraBackup is a free, online, open source, and complete database backup solution.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52