HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Containers are portable, self-contained operating environments that include applications and the dependencies they need to run, such as databases, middleware, and frameworks. Infrastructure is provisioned and modified in code, eliminating much of the need for manual installation and tuning. Microservices. Service mesh.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. AWS speaker: T. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices.

AWS 52

AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

Such an algorithm might pick up the Gamestop stock frenzy of January 2021. It is likely that entire companies will be in the business of identifying these nuances and selling them as “fingerprint databases” for identifying fake news articles. Figure 1: Click-bait article titles generated by GPT-3. HODL for Fun & Profit.

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Internet Internet 140

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks. Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98