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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Blockchain is a good example of this.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

I don’t think so in this case, but this paper will take you down into the nitty-gritty of getting the best out of modern processors and networks, with up to two orders of magnitude single node throughput gains to be had. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck? Maybe we should be switching to active-memory replication ?

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node).