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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. To properly secure applications, developers need to discover and eliminate these vulnerabilities. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive.

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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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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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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Why HammerDB was developed. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

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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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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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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).