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Site reliability done right: 5 SRE best practices that deliver on business objectives

Dynatrace

With so many of their transactions occurring online, customers are becoming more demanding, expecting websites and applications to always perform perfectly. Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis report found that over 60% of system outages resulted in at least $100,000 in total losses, up from 39% in 2019. availability.

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The state of site reliability engineering: SRE challenges and best practices in 2023

Dynatrace

This can often result from a lack of understanding of the discipline’s role in delivering on key performance objectives: SLOs. To overcome this hurdle, the panelists recommended that engineers communicate the value of SRE to higher-level executives through business data.

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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) System Components.

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New Metadata-Only Column Changes in SQL Server 2016

SQL Performance

Along with a large number of restrictions on what is even possible with this command, there is always the question of performance. Ultimately, tables are stored as a sequence of bytes with some metadata elsewhere in the system to describe what each of those bytes mean, and how they relate to each of the table's various columns.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. “Be

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SQL Server on IoT Edge and Developer Machines – Smaller Footprint

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server.

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SQL Server Linux: fsync and Buffered I/O

SQL Server According to Bob

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. This means data can be stored in file system cache, non-stable media. ) Assume the database application opens the backup file, allowing file system caching (~_O_DIRECT.)

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