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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation. This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

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

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% So Which Is Best?

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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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems research papers from both industry and academia. Heterogeneous ISA.

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DBaaS Pros & Cons

Scalegrid

Data Center Dynamics highlights a significant uptick in DBaaS adoption, growing from 40% to 45% between 2019 and 2020. The advantages of DBaaS Businesses can use their database services without having to purchase new hardware or set it up. You don’t need to purchase additional storage when you have a self-managed cloud database.

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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. Not everyone will be able to move to column store storage quickly, and it won't always be the right solution anyway. Test Environment. Batch Mode on Row Store (BMOR).

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

For VR, this is a journey that is already one-third complete and expected to be finished by the end of 2019. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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