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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561) ( Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 ( Dirk Strauss). Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News).

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PostgreSQL Trends: Most Popular Cloud Providers, Languages, VACUUM, Query Management Strategies & Deployment Types in Enterprise

Scalegrid

Back in 2013, PostgreSQL surveyed their users to see which external programming languages was most often used with PostgreSQL, and found that Python only represented 10.5% PHP was actually the most popular language used with PostgreSQL in 2013, representing almost half of the responses from their survey at 47.1% use with PostgreSQL.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. CitusDB – distributes data and queries horizontally across nodes.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The AMI and boot are now HVM. The first was c3.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. have been released since then with some major changes. Setting oom_score_adj to -800.