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Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

Scalegrid

JSONB supports indexing the JSON data, and is very efficient at parsing and querying the JSON data. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns. JSONB storage results in a larger storage footprint. It is a decomposed binary format to store JSON.

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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services. Because containers are ephemeral, managing them can become problematic, and even more problematic as the numbers of containers proliferate. How does container orchestration work?

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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since. In spite of reaching higher qualities than the fixed ladder, the HDR-DO ladder, on average, occupies only 58% of the storage space compared to fixed-bitrate ladder.

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New Metadata-Only Column Changes in SQL Server 2016

SQL Performance

Improvements in SQL Server 2016. The subject of this post is the additional changes that are enabled for metadata-only from SQL Server 2016 onward. ALTER COLUMN id bigint NOT NULL ; Thanks to the improvements in SQL Server 2016, this command changes metadata only , and completes immediately. Be Careful with Syntax.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

AWS is not only affordable but it is secure and scales reliably to drive efficiencies into business transformations. In just this past month we've had HSBC , ARM , Missguided , and most recently at re:Invent 2016 , Trainline , talking with us about how they are using AWS to transform and scale their businesses.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls. The AMI and boot are now HVM.