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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. have adopted Kubernetes.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We’ve developed the fundamental skill of managing the “blast radius” of a failure occurrence such that the overall health of the system can be maintained. The importance of the network. Primitives not frameworks. Automation is key.

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. Training models and developing complex applications on top of those models is becoming easier.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

This genetics R&D is crucial for Unliver to develop new products faster; for example comparing a healthy mouth with one with gingivitis - by identifying the shared genes amongst these two can be very helpful in developing the next generation of toothpaste.

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