Tag: Open Source

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . As a DBA it is important to have a toolbox that supports the work you do.  You need to have a toolbox that allows you to work smarter instead of harder.  DBA’s who have a well-stocked toolbox will be able to respond to support and maintenance request quickly, efficiently and accurately.   One set of tools you should consider putting in your toolbox is the tool kit named “DBATools”.   DBATools is a free set of open source PowerShell Module that can be downloaded from here: https://dbatools.io/ What is “DBATools”? It is a PowerShell ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Data Imaginist. [This article was first published on Data Imaginist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big releasecomprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of newfunctions and improvements. Read on to find out what this is all about. The case for farver The first version of farver really ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MyDBOPS; In my previous blog, I have explained how the MySQL clone plugin works internally. In this blog, I am going to do a comparison of  Backup and Recovery speed of MySQL clone plugin with other available mysql open source backup tools. Below tools are used for speed comparison of Backup and Recovery, Clone-Plugin Xtrabackup mysqldump mydumper with myloader mysqlpump Test cases: Hardware Configuration: Two standalone servers are picked up with identical configuration. Server 1 * IP: 172.23.26.127 * CPU: 2 Cores * RAM: 4 GB * DISK: 200 GB SSD Server 2 * IP: 172.21.3.114 ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Corin Gainey. Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Will Lyon at GraphConnect New York in September 2018. He recently published the book, Fullstack GraphQL Applications with GRANDstack.Presentation SummaryWill Lyon is a Neo4j Developer Relations Engineer. He is familiar with Neo4j, both from the inside building applications as well as from the outside as a customer. Today’s session features an introduction to GraphQL.GraphQL is an API query language and runtime for building APIs originally built by Facebook. GraphQL queries allow you to describe your data, ask for what you want, and then deliver predictable ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Keiko Harada. Over the past few years, we’ve seen significant changes in how an application is thought of and developed, especially with the adoption of containers and the move from traditional monolithic applications to microservices applications. This shift also affects how we think about modern application monitoring, now with greater adoption of open source technologies and the introduction of observability concepts. In the past, vendors owned the application and infrastructure, and as a result, they knew what metrics to monitor. With open source products growing in number, vendors do not own all the metrics, and ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. I’ve been at dinners before with developers that admitted developers, themselves included, can be a bit opinionated. In one case one said for example, “I love Postgres, but I have no idea why.” They were sitting at the wrong table to use Postgres as an example… But it is quite often that I am asked Why Postgres.In fact a little over a year ago good friend Dimitri Fontaine asked if he could interview me for a book he’s working on for Postgres. I’ve long said their is a shortage of good books about Postgres and he’s done ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Booze Allen just launched a one-stop shop for all manner of pretested DNN models.  They’re even guaranteeing price.  This makes buying just like picking accounting, CRM, or HRIS software.  Equally as important, it’s a genius example of platform strategy to lock in customers and lock out competitors. The common vision of developing and deploying a deep learning model is half-a-dozen (at least) data scientists and engineers slogging away over maybe three to six months before having that MVP to first test in production. Not anymore.  Go down to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. NET Core 3.0 provides new APIs, adds support for ARM64, and includes a number of performance improvements across the board. PowerShell Core provides a shell and scripting experience similar to Windows, and Mono provides an open source implementation of the .NET Framework. As a result, this AMI enables you to quickly and easily run .NET applications on Linux and save on Windows licensing costs.  This AMI is provided at no additional cost beyond the cost of using Amazon EC2. You can begin using the AMI directly through EC2 Console in all public regions. Visit the EC2 user ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Andrew Hartnett; First of all, what is DevOps? DevOps is short for Developer Operations and it is a newer approach that combines both development and operational tasks to automate and speed up software development practices and reduce release cycles for fast-growing companies. DevOps is built on the concept of teamwork and aims to unite teams that were traditionally kept separate and siloed, and reduces the development lifecycle for faster scalability. Once companies have decided which their business needs and objectives are, they need to start small and work towards adopting the DevOps model across the entire ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Developers can now include the Amazon Encryption SDK for JavaScript (ESDK) in production applications, the first time client-side encryption will be natively supported in-browser by the ESDK. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt in a browser to protect sensitive data at the edge of the cloud. The AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library designed to make it easy for everyone to encrypt and decrypt data using industry standards and best practices. Now available in C, Java, JavaScript, Python and the Command Line Interface, all ESDKs are interoperable, meaning that ... Read More