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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage

The Morning Paper

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. An increasingly large fraction of data in modern workloads comes from less predictable and highly variable sources. joins) during query processing.

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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Accordingly, the remaining 27% of clusters are self-managed by the customer on cloud virtual machines.

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A MyRocks Use Case

Percona

I wrote this post on MyRocks because I believe it is the most interesting new MySQL storage engine to have appeared over the last few years. The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. The L3 cache size is 64MB. The L3 cache size is 64MB. The key specifications for the Lsv2 series virtual machines are shown in Table 1. lanes for I/O connectivity.

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool.

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