Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 30, 2023

These include: What data sources the model is trained on. The recent discovery (documented by an exposé in The Atlantic ) that OpenAI, Meta, and others used databases of pirated books, for example, highlights the need for transparency in training data. Policy on use of user data for further training. Operational Metrics.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Aligning superhuman AI with human behavior: chess as a model system , McIlroy-Young et al., As well as outright behaviour and performance once fully trained, a related interesting question is whether or not the AI model improves with training in the same way that humans do on the same task as their skill levels increase.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 26, 2024

TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data. Generative AI Has a Plagiarism Problem ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t memorize its training data, per se. This is the basis of The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI. They are dream machines.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Amazon Database Migration Service. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). AWS Systems Manager Run Command. Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Available Now. Coming Soon.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more and more enterprises incorporate cloud-based systems, ensuring their security becomes a key concern. Its key emphasis is on data security and ensuring compliance, while still allowing users to maintain control over their database systems and data, even when they are hosted in the public cloud.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

The urge to create more and more indexes is found to be causing severe damage in many systems. Many times, removing indexes is what we should be doing first before considering any new indexes for the benefit of the entire system. This post is about PostgreSQL, but most of the problems also apply to other database systems.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

The streaming data store makes the system extensible to support other use-cases (e.g. System Components. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. The system will comprise of several micro-services each performing a separate task. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

By carving the right AWS certification path, developers can even use their certification and training to advance their careers long term. What is the value of AWS training and certification? You and your peers – if you team up – can benefit on multiple levels from AWS training and certification. Then this one’s for you.

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Another group of cases involving text (typically novels and novelists) argue that using copyrighted texts as part of the training data for a Large Language Model (LLM) is itself copyright infringement, 1 even if the model never reproduces those texts as part of its output. Is an artist’s style copyrightable, and if so, what does that mean?

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Data observability involves monitoring and managing the internal state of data systems to gain insight into the data pipeline, understand how data evolves, and identify any issues that could compromise data integrity or reliability. An erroneous change in the database system leads to a subset of the data being categorized incorrectly.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Still, a single unmonitored host can become a weak link , causing system failures and security breaches. This unified approach reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO), cutting down on the overhead costs associated with managing multiple standalone tools and training costs and simplifying procurement and vendor management.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database. Which means your chatbot is effectively a naive person who has access to all of the information from the training dataset.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

Rather than using a trained model to predict behavior, RASP watches an application’s runtime, studying the application’s task execution to detect attacks. An ideal RASP technology does not need training or fine-tuning to learn what bad application behavior looks like. Instant runtime response. Contextual analysis.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before open source was available, there was little to no interoperability between computer systems. If your one vendor of hardware, software, training, and all tangential things discontinued your sole-sourced system in favor of a newer, better-margined system of their manufacture, then all your investment was suddenly worth next to nothing.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

Cloud 82

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As this led to a countless number of connections and dependencies between them, the complexity of such systems increased. Chaos engineering provides mechanisms to test for failures, create awareness of this systems in terms of how complex and how distributed they are, and to be proactive. Controlled Chaos. 2: Chaos Experiment Card.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. This is an Innovation release. Download Percona XtraBackup 8.1.0-1 protocols and drivers.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

There is a wide selection of advanced solutions available for cloud monitoring, including various choices for ensuring top-notch security in your organization’s systems. These include real-time alerting features and a specialized dashboard that provides crucial database and OS metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

We thought that reinforcement learning would be a promising approach that could provide great flexibility in the training process. Likewise it has very low requirements on the initial amount of training data. Lerner uses AWS services to store binary versions of the agents, agent configurations, and training data.

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Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. The InnoDB_doublewrite system has two new settings: DETECT_ONLY. Database page content is not written to the buffer.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide.

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Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 Percona Server for MySQL 8.1.0-1

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Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since December 4, 2023.

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Percona

AUGUST 21, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 7, 2023.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

ML learning systems combine the characteristics of software, e.g. the need for CI/CD pipelines, and of data, e.g. the need to track lineage. Compared to web-scale platform use of ML, enterprise applications tend to be built by smaller teams with deeper domain expertise, but less deep algorithmic or systems expertise.

Government 95

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. It automatically manages all the computing resources those processes require.

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Percona

JULY 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 10, 2023.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. They don’t have visibility or “observability” in their systems. What’s the root cause?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But as they turn to cloud environments to develop new products and manage IT infrastructure, they have introduced a host of complex systems that need to be managed and secured. Further, many organizations—more than 90%—have turned to cloud computing to navigate the highwire act of balancing speed and quality.

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O'Reilly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Designing and writing software systems that generate prompts automatically. Designing automated prompting systems is clearly important. In the long run, the will to learn something yourself will be much more important than a couple of hours training in effective prompting patterns. To say nothing of debugging and testing.)

Programming 100

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 6, 2020

The programming world will increasingly be split between highly trained professionals and people who don’t have a deep background but have a lot of experience building things. Like reading, some people learn how to code with little training, and others don’t. We need to rethink the role of the programmer. Mike Loukides.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. This requires organizations to architect their systems carefully and to continuously monitor to quickly detect slowdowns before they affect users.

Cloud 164

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 164

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It’s time for the release roundup! This release includes improvements, bug fixes, and support for PostgreSQL and MySQL operators.

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