Percona

JULY 7, 2023

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. When the primary server fails, a standby server takes over as the new primary.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 19, 2023

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

In this blog post, I provide an in-depth introduction to MySQL Replication, answering what it is, how it works , its benefits and challenges, as well as reviewing some of the MySQL replication concepts that are part of the MySQL environment (and Percona Server for MySQL specifically). Set the server-id to a unique value.

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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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

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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Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 3-Year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances offer the maximum savings over equivalent servers deployed in an on-premises environment. All Things Distributed. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility. By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM.

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