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Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Jervin Real. Jervin Real  | September 19, 2017 |  Posted In: MySQL, ProxySQL, Security, SSL PREVIOUS POST In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL improves MySQL SSL connection performance. When deploying MySQL with SSL, the main concern is that the initial handshake causes significant overhead if you are not using connection pools (i.e., mysqlnd-mux with PHP, mysql.connector.pooling in Python, etc.). Closing and making new connections over and over can greatly impact on your total query response time. A customer and colleague recently educated me that although you can improve SSL encryption/decryption performance with the AES-NI ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. Data preparation is the task of blending, shaping and cleansing data to get it ready for analytics or other business purposes. Data preparation begins with attempting to find the data best-suited for a specific purpose – an exercise that many users cite as frustrating and time-consuming. With so much data available from numerous sources in various formats, it's crucial to be able to discover the right data quickly. Only then can you expedite the process of getting value out of the vast data assets from across your enterprise. Creating and maintaining a comprehensive, well-documented data catalog ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Art Schoeller. Digital rewrites the rules of businessDiscover how to reinvent your business with technology at the core. Watch the webinar replay    We’re seeing a significant challenge today in finding the right enterprise-level team messaging app that’s easy to use, compatible with a work environment, and combines various daily functions so employees don’t have to bounce back and forth between platforms or apps causing confusion. There’s quite a proliferation of team messaging apps in the market, and having so many options at your fingertips makes it difficult for application development & delivery (AD&D) pros searching ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Stuart Kwan. A common challenge in cloud development is managing the credentials used to authenticate to cloud services. Today, I am happy to announce the Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (MSI) preview. MSI gives your code an automatically managed identity for authenticating to Azure services, so that you can keep credentials out of your code. What is Managed Service Identity and how do I use it? Your code needs credentials to authenticate to cloud services, but you want to limit the visibility of those credentials as much as possible. Ideally, they never appear on ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Deepak Suryanarayanan. Sahil Bahri, Sr. Product Manager, Amazon AppStream 2.0 Do you need to provide a workstation class experience for users who run graphics apps? With Amazon AppStream 2.0, you can stream graphics apps from AWS to a web browser running on any supported device. AppStream 2.0 offers a choice of GPU instance types. The range includes the newly launched Graphics Design instance, which allows you to offer a fast, fluid user experience at a fraction of the cost of using a graphics workstation, without upfront investments or long-term commitments. In this post, I discuss ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Webyog; This blog describes how to identify queries that cause a sudden spike in system resources as well as the user and host who executed the culprit query using the Monyog MySQL Monitor and Advisor.How many times have you seen a system go live and perform much worse than it did in testing? There could be several reasons behind bad performance. For instance, a slow running query in MySQL can be caused by a poor database design or may be due to higher-than-normal latency in network communication. Other issues such as using too few or too ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: JamieNisbet. Introduction Problem determination is not simple. The solution to a problem might be simple (if you’re lucky!), but going from PROBLEM ==> SOLUTION is where the time and effort is spent! Let’s put on our detective hats! In order for a detective to solve a crime, they need evidence and clues. What information do you need in order to be able to properly investigate and solve a problem in Big SQL? As a frequent investigator of diagnostics myself, often I do not know what information I need until I need it! We cannot always predict ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Emmanuelle Rieuf. Feature engineering is essential to applied machine learning, but using domain knowledge to strengthen your predictive models can be difficult and expensive. To help fill the information gap on feature engineering, this complete hands-on guide teaches beginning-to-intermediate data scientists how to work with this widely practiced but little discussed topic. Author Alice Zheng explains common practices and mathematical principles to help engineer features for new data and tasks. If you understand basic machine learning concepts like supervised and unsupervised learning, you’re ready to get started. Not only will you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. We’re pleased to announce the availability of Exam Ref 70-346 Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements, 2nd Edition (ISBN 9781509304790), by Orin Thomas. Purchase from these online retailers: Microsoft Press StoreAmazonBarnes & NobleIndependent booksellers – Shop local Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-346—and demonstrate your real-world mastery of the skills needed to help deploy and efficiently administer Office 365 applications. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the skills measured on the exam: ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ciara Byrne. Time (source: Pixabay) Download the free report “Data Warehousing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” from MemSQL for more on how to use data efficiently in a data warehouse. “Hot data” is the most recent snapshot of the real world. It’s the real-time data continuously streaming in from IoT device sensors, user clickstreams, and mobile game-play activity. Hot data becomes big data when it comes to rest in a data warehouse, and that data warehouse is traditionally where data science happens. Machine learning models are typically trained on batches of big data ... Read More