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

Percona

This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. What is fault tolerance?

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. Indexing is another powerful technique for query optimization.

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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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Multi Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. This article will focus on the technology behind ScaleGrid’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions and how they align with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud structures.

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Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Smashing Magazine

In this article, we’ll explore some of the ways that we as individuals can use our skills to have a positive environmental impact within a digital organization. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Terabyte of wasted traffic. Hardware And E-Waste. With approx.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! The CentOS flame graph: The Ubuntu flame graph: Darn, they didn't work.

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