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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers? Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Site reliability engineering teams often measure system availability in percentages in the pursuit of 100% uptime. But is five nines availability attainable?

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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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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Learning to tell the difference is helpful for browser project managers and engineers, but also working web developers who struggle to develop theories of change for affecting browser teams. This developer-enabling flywheel aims to liberate computing from any single OS, supporting an ephemeral services model of computing.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

In this article, we compare Oracle vs. PostgreSQL, outlining the differences in these SQL database costs, features, and ease of use for both developers and database administrators (DBA’s) alike. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Compare Costs.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload.

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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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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