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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. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases.

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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. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?

Percona

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. While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.

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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

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 We took the approach of allocating small or large cloud storage space depending on the actual packaging input size (Figure 2).

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed.

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