Sun.Feb 17, 2019

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Database compression on Nutanix

n0derunner

Compressability. What space savings should you expect when running databases with default compression in a Nutanix cluster? When we ran the TPCx-HCI benchmark on our cluster we realized about 2:1 savings from compression alone. The TPCx-HCI benchmark mimics a database consolidation setup, meaning that there are many databases per host. The uncompressed data size was about 45TB.

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Failing Fast Is Not Enough

Professor Beekums

Failing fast has become a common trope by now. It makes a lot of sense in some contexts. Fear of failing causes many problems, the biggest of which is being afraid to try something new. Even if a new thing only has a 1% chance of teaching you something useful, not trying gives you a 0% chance of learning something useful. Fear of failing prevents long term success.

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Exploring a back/forward cache for Chrome

Addy Osmani

bfcache creates a cache allowing for instant navigations to previously-visited pages.

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