The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., 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. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Many of the software engineering discipline and controls need to be brought over into an ML context. Inference (scoring) engines will be deployed everywhere, and ML scoring will be deeply integrated into the DBMS "as a foundational extension of relational algebra, and an integral part of SQL query optimizers and runtimes."

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. Bob Dorr – Principal SQL Server Escalation Engineer. On the same hardware/machine repeat steps 1 thru 3 using an instance of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 MultiObjectScanner = Older design.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40