Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Copyright The information ​​ that is contained ​​ in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The carbon footprint of a large rack mounted server is order-of-magnitude a ton of carbon a year. The GSF Software Carbon Intensity specification has published a case study that shows how to do this for application workloads, where SCI produces a marginal carbon per transaction figure for a specific workload.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. 20-30% is a good general default for “dirty_ratio,” but on large-memory database servers, this can be a lot of memory.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. Software security ” (or “cybersecurity” or similar) means making software able to protect its assets from a malicious attacker.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139