Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. For those who have not committed all to the cloud, it is time to check that your hardware and firmware are in good shape.

Database 93

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 93

Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

If you ran IBM hardware, then you ran IBM software, and that handy calendaring program that ran on Data General or Digital hardware/software was unavailable to you. The choice could be to switch to another document database or maybe use a relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL that supports JSON data types.

Open Source 115

Open Source Software Software Hardware 115

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In our conversations with developers and engineers during the conference, we confirmed the CNCF GItOps Microsurvey data – 91% are already using GitOps. of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). The newly formed Open Source AI Alliance , led by META and IBM, promises to support open-source AI.

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. These can be invisible to top(8). But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. Accelerated Database Recovery is in Standard Edition. But what if I've already done that on another system with the same workload?

Servers 40

Servers Hardware Database Availability 40