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What Is a Workload in Cloud Computing

Scalegrid

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

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Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Percona

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. Character encoding refers to the method used to represent characters as binary data for storage and transmission. My Testing Setup Environment specification Release | Ubuntu 18.04

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. The considerations described above (and in other sections) must be addressed across the following areas if a high availability architecture is to be achieved: Infrastructure : This is the physical or virtual hardware that database systems rely on to run.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

In that context, I’ll focus on C++ and try to: highlight what needs attention (what C++’s problem “is”), and how we can get there by building on solutions already underway; address some common misconceptions (what C++’s problem “isn’t”), including practical considerations of MSLs; and leave a call to action for programmers using all languages.

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Proof of Concept: Horizontal Write Scaling for MySQL With Kubernetes Operator

Percona

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Because the solutions still rely on writing in one single node that works as Primary.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Not to mix up with Microsoft’s JPEG-XR coming from good ol' Internet Explorer 9 times). To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%. Large preview ).