Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

A cleanup process to prune stale relationships from the database. The Beginning of SpiceDB Caveats The SpiceDB community had already explored integrating SpiceDB with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and concluded it strayed too far from Zanzibar’s core promise of global horizontal scalability with strong consistency.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. Setting Up MySQL Replication – Step by Step: Backup Data: Before starting, create a backup of your primary database to prevent data loss during setup.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

One of the common ways to classify database workloads is whether it is “read intensive” or “write intensive”. Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability.

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