Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. No proprietary operating system or database required.

Open Source 102

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 102

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. Comments ().

Ecommerce 123

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 123

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 113

Internet Internet AWS Performance 113

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. I wrote seeksize.d

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. Developers who are automating business systems have to determine where humans belong in the loop.

Games 118

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 118

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Stay tuned!

Performance 113

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Can you think of a better system that can stay up without losing time initiating failovers when a node fails? Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus.

C++ 84

C++ Database Storage Testing 84