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Carving an AWS certification path

Dynatrace

Recently, 53 Dynatracers convened in a Zoom room for 5 action-packed hours to take on our first AWS GameDay challenge, an event we participated in to help our developers accelerate their AWS certification path. What is the value of AWS training and certification?

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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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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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

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Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. If something fails, there should be another way for the system to succeed.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Configuring kernel execution is not a trivial exercise and requires GPU device specific knowledge. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. Contact Info.

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