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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. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. there cannot be high availability.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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

Percona

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. For example: Read/Write tickets WiredTiger uses tickets to control the number of read / write operations simultaneously processed by the storage engine.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. is 220 Mbps.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. For example, many high-end installations contain multiple I/O storage devices. SQL Server 7.0

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the language’s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior). That’s pretty easy to statically guarantee, except for some cases of the unused parts of lazily constructed array/vector storage.

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