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Quick Data Archival in MySQL Using Partitions

Percona

To speed up the above query we need to create an appropriate index so that the query can be executed in minimal time and have less impact on server performance. If we are using binlog_format as ROW, a huge number of bin logs would be created which could choke I/O of servers and require extra cleanup. What is partitioning?

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. I came up with a great demo where I could break Solaris 9 and 10 servers in the same way, then demonstrate how it would take an hour and a reboot cycle to fix Solaris 9, but minutes and no reboot to fix Solaris 10. When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well.

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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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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