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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication. Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. wsrep patches / Galera Library This solution is virtually synchronous, which is comparable to Group Replication. Group Replication This new concept was introduced in the MySQL Community Edition 5.7

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

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