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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. Downtime due to SPOFs can also be attributed to bottlenecks from architectures designed for applications instead of databases. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. Comments ().

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

Percona

The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. For example: Read/Write tickets WiredTiger uses tickets to control the number of read / write operations simultaneously processed by the storage engine. The report focuses on MySQL, but it is valid for MongoDB as well.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. is 220 Mbps.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. For example, many high-end installations contain multiple I/O storage devices. SQL Server 7.0

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