SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Several event types are included in the health session, some of which include predicates to remove noise from the system health session. The events logged in the system health show a non-yield beginning, then a login timeout occurring and the non-yield ending. I started with a cmd file script exercising the connection path.

Servers 40

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Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Let’s take a look at each common resource.

Traffic 90

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 90

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. What is real user monitoring?

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SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

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Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The scenario Service considerations In this exercise, we wanted to perform a major version upgrade from PostgreSQL v12.16 Then, we need a small downtime window just to move the traffic from the original instance to the upgraded one. Perform pg_upgrade Execute the pg_upgrade process. to PostgreSQL v15.4. and a v15.4.

Database 79

Database Traffic C++ Servers 79

SQL Performance

JUNE 10, 2020

This month and the next I’m going to cover the physical processing aspects of derived tables. That is, does SQL Server perform a substitution process whereby it converts the original nested code into one query that goes directly against the base tables? And if so, is there a way to instruct SQL Server to avoid this unnesting process?

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C++ Database Servers Code 93

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

For example, ghost code - code that is not commented out but will conditionally never be executed - is likely to be confused for real code in a reverse-engineering exercise. There are people behind the systems to which we're bound today. Ten years ago, I was leading an inception for a company replacing their fleet maintenance systems.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale internet services at the edge Xu et al., It’s another networking paper to close out the week (and our coverage of SOSP’19), but whereas Snap looked at traffic routing within the datacenter, Taiji is concerned with routing traffic from the edge to a datacenter. SOSP’19.

Traffic 42

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 52

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Are you ready to take your system assurance programme to the next level? In all cases we need to be able to carefully monitor the impact on the system, and back out if things start going badly wrong. Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Amazon ElastiCache embodies much of what makes fast data a reality for customers looking to process high volume data at incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. The system is more robust. Redis's microsecond latency has made it a de facto choice for caching.

Games 112

Games Retail Latency Education 112

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. We should have access to raw events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. We should have access to raw events.

Open Source 101

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 101

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a streaming microservices ecosystem, the Mantis platform provides engineers with capabilities to minimize the costs of observing and operating complex distributed systems without compromising on operational insights. Instead, we should process and serve events one at a time as they arrive. We should have access to raw events.

Open Source 100

Open Source Metrics Engineering Processing 100