All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

Storage 87

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 87

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter? What is the Recovery Time Objective?

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

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 79

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

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

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There were so many interesting papers at the conference this year though that I haven’t been able to cover nearly as many as I would like. MongoDB is an important database, and this paper explains the tunable (per-operation) consistency models that MongoDB provides and how they are implemented under the covers. Industry papers.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73