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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud

Percona

These color-coded states on panels are available in PMM 2.32.0 Think of a gaming company that creates a game that is getting popular, so the number of resources needed to support more users would increase considerably. PMM can also show you historical data that can help you identify how long a service has been in a given state.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration.

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Wasm functions contain native codes compiled at runtime, so they should not be directly migrated as normal JavaScript objects. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). Why would we want to live migrate web workers? Is the migration worth it though?

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Critical for gaming with a mouse.

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The Pursuit of Appiness

Alex Russell

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Circa '07, those web apps were notably slower than native code could be. How could the bad Windows security experience be prevented?

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Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

All Things Distributed

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

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Millions of tiny databases

The Morning Paper

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Performing a number of game days against physical deployments of Physalia. This paper is a real joy to read.

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