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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store [link] ) is now available as part of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , I wanted to take a look at how it performs on a relatively high-end server and SSD storage. Fsync Performance on Storage Devices. A Look at MyRocks Performance. Interested? on Ubuntu 16.04

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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Towards multiverse databases

The Morning Paper

In the prototype implementation, policies are expressed in a language similar to Google Cloud Firestore security rules. If we do that naively though, we’re going to end up with a lot of universes to store and maintain and the storage requirements alone will be prohibitive. Expressing privacy policies.

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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. Just like a conductor orchestrating an ensemble of instruments to play at specific times for optimal performance.

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2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

High Scalability

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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