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High Availability vs. Fault Tolerance: Is FT’s 00.001% Edge in Uptime Worth the Headache?

Percona

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

This type of database offers scalability with no downtime along with giving businesses control over what resources they use through customization capabilities such as choosing hardware infrastructure options or building security measures around it. Make sure to read our extensive article on DBaaS Pros and Cons !

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Further improved handling and reliability of OneAgent deployments

Dynatrace

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. In this article we’ll share highlights about two increments that are likely to fall into the “barely noticeable” category. Dynatrace news.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based.

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Azure Virtual Machines for SQL Server Usage

SQL Performance

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. BTW, the "i" in the Standard_E64is_v3 naming means that the instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.

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