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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. But mainstream users? Not so much. But WordPress?

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. to answer, an answer that directs further tuning: whether you need to separate applications on different disks, or tune one application's disk workload. ## Why did this take so long? I would have guessed that this answers the question: are the disks seeking?

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know on our feature requests community page and stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013). Stay tuned!

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. The best way to describe the Citus way of doing things is to reflect how data is managed by a disk RAID array.

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