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Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Dave Avery. Dave Avery  | September 19, 2017 |  Posted In: Database Monitoring, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live PREVIOUS POST Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Dana Van Aken, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her talk is titled Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Oh my goodness, Data Days! When we rescheduled PGConf US Local: Seattle from August to November we did so due to attendee feedback. It was amazing - people didn't want to go to a conference on Saturday in August (I wonder why). I know, we should have known but it was a new model and we tried. We are extremely pleased with the results of the shift in schedule. The conference now takes place during "professional hours" on "professional days." Because of the shift and sponsor support we have added three new tracks, reopened the CFP, and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mango Solutions. Mango Solutions are delighted to announce the full EARL Boston agenda for this coming November! As always, we received more abstracts than we could accept and all were of excellent quality. Because of this, the decision-making process was not easy; however, we believe we’ve put together a great agenda that showcases how a range of industries are solving business problems with R. We’re confident that R users of all levels and from all industries will find the EARL Boston Conference useful. On to the speakers! Joining David, Mara and Tareef, are speakers from companies such ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Codership; Join Galera Cluster team!  Both jobs are key positions at Codership. You will influence a great deal to Galera Cluster user experience.  We have thousands of users.Galera Cluster QA EngineerThe QA Engineer/release manager will be responsible for working with the development team at Codership and create and execute tests, make builds of Galera Cluster and develop and extend test automation frameworks.You will be also working closely with MariaDB development and quality assurance teams to prioritize software bug fixes.TasksContinuously refine the QA process to improve product qualityTroubleshoot and work with the development team to isolate issuesCreate ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bhanu Prakash. Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA. You can deploy these big data technologies and ISV applications as managed clusters with enterprise-level security and monitoring. Given the broad scope of open source technologies on big data, we have received many requests for a detailed guide around HDInsight. This post outlines the key areas covered by the guide and also outlines some other options for learning on ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Lu Niu, Peng Du, Zhenxiao Luo. Uber’s Presto architecture (source: Courtesy of Zhenxiao Luo) For more on efficient geospatial analysis, check out Zhenxiao Luo and Wei Yan’s session, “Geospatial big data analysis at Uber,” at the Strata NYC Data Conference in NYC, September 25-28, 2017. From determining the most convenient rider pickup points to predicting the fastest routes, Uber aims to use data-driven analytics to create seamless trip experiences. Within engineering, analytics inform decision-making processes across the board. One of the distinct challenges for Uber is analyzing geospatial big data. City locations, trips, and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nathan LeClaire. Traffic Light (source: Bertsz) Learn how to rewrite monoliths into microservices at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, taking place in London Oct. 17-20. Use code ORM20 to save 20% on your conference pass (Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes). Microservices are small programs, each with a specific and narrow scope, that are glued together to produce what appears from the outside to be one coherent web application. This architectural style is used in contrast with a traditional "monolith" where every component and sub-routine of the application is bundled into one codebase and not separated ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: David Smith. The fourth EARL London conference took place last week, and once again it was an enjoyable and informative showcase of practical applications of R. Kudos to the team from Mango for hosting a great event featuring interesting talks and a friendly crowd.  As always, there were more talks on offer than I was able to attend (most of the event was in three parallel tracks), but here are a few highlights that I was able to catch: Jenny Bryan from RStudio gave an outstanding keynote: "Workflows: You Should Have One". The talk was a really ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Dave Avery. Dave Avery  | September 18, 2017 |  Posted In: Database Monitoring, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live PREVIOUS POST Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Charity Majors, CEO/Cofounder of Honeycomb. Her talk is Debugging with Logs (and Other Events). Her presentation covers some of the lessons every ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Molly Abrams; It’s that time of year again!IDERA is excited to see everyone at PASS Summit 2017! This year’s summit will take place from November 1st-3rd at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. The exhibit hall will be open from Wednesday (November 1) to Friday (November 3). IDERA will be located at booth 112. Come check us out! What to expect this year at the summit: More than 5,000 registrants from more than 2,000 companies Representatives from 52 different countries Over 200 technical sessions presented by industry experts from around the world including ... Read More