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How Uber Serves Over 40 Million Reads Per Second from Online Storage Using an Integrated Cache

Uber Engineering

Learn how Uber serves over 40 million reads per second from its in-house, distributed database built on top of MySQL using an integrated caching solution: CacheFront.”

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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. Snowflake is a data warehouse designed to overcome these limitations, and the fundamental mechanism by which it achieves this is the decoupling (disaggregation) of compute and storage. joins) during query processing. Disaggregation (or not).

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MySQL Data Caching Efficiency

Percona

A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently?

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Improved Alerting with Atlas Streaming Eval

The Netflix TechBlog

Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable. A few years ago, we were paged by our SRE team due to our Metrics Alerting System falling behind — critical application health alerts reached engineers 45 minutes late! It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. FUN FACT : In this talk , Rodrigo Schmidt, director of engineering at Instagram talks about the different challenges they have faced in scaling the data infrastructure at Instagram. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Hacker News).

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How Bloom Filters Work in MyRocks

Percona

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. For good performance, the filter blocks are cached in the RocksDB block cache and normally stay there since they are accessed frequently. Bloom filter is an important feature improving performance of LSM storage engines.

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