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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

Perform routine maintenance and backups to ensure data integrity. Advantages There are many advantages of MySQL replication, but a few highlights include the enhancement of scalability by allowing read-intensive workloads to be distributed across multiple replicas, offloading a primary database server, and improving overall performance.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

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The Paradox of Leadership

Edge Perspectives

The first paradox: in a world of mounting performance pressure, we seek “strong” leaders with all the answers, when what we need are leaders with powerful questions. Response to mounting performance pressure. The challenge of course is that, in a rapidly changing world of mounting performance pressure, no one has all the answers.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 is 220 Mbps. In this approach, an index assembler generates an index file, maintaining the temporal order of the encoded chunks.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.

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