Tag: optimization

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jason Potter; There is more to selecting the right hosting product than just pricing.In fact, basing your decision entirely on price is a recipe for disaster. When comparing prices on shared hosting vs VPS vs dedicated hosting, it may seem like a no-brainer to sign up for the cheapest option, right?If you are running a web agency, you are not alone in thinking that shared web hosting, often as little as $5 per site monthly, is the most cost-effective solution for your business.However, take a deeper look and you will quickly see how the financial, functional, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Table partitioning has been evolving since the feature was added to PostgreSQL in version 10.  Version 11 saw some vast improvements, as I mentioned in a previous blog post.During the PostgreSQL 12 development cycle, there was a big focus on scaling partitioning to make it not only perform better, but perform better with a larger number of partitions. Here I’d like to talk about what has been improved. COPY Performance: Bulk loading data into a partitioned table using COPY is now able to make use of bulk-inserts.  Previously only one row was inserted at a time. The ... Read More

Feed: Apple Machine Learning Journal. Author: . Apple is attending Interspeech 2019, the world’s largest conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. The conference, of which Apple is a Platinum Sponsor, will take place in Graz, Austria from September 15th to 19th. For Interspeech attendees, join the authors of our accepted papers at our booth to learn more about the great speech research happening at Apple. Apple continues to build cutting-edge technology in the space of machine hearing, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, text-to-speech, and artificial intelligence, improving the lives of millions of customers every ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? Multitasking, according to the Merriman-Webster dictionary, is performing multiple tasks at one time. We all multitask as part of our everyday lives. We cook while we talk on our phone; we watch TV while we catch up on emails; we exercise while commuting to work. When it comes to database engines, multitasking is essential. Multitasking enables many different user-submitted jobs to run concurrently. Without multitasking capabilities inside the engine, Teradata Vantage would not be able to support hundreds or thousands of user queries at the same time.   Without ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Announcements Migrating R Applications to the Cloud - Upcoming Webinar Learn a new skill at #StrataData New York. Featured Resources and Technical Contributions  10 Visualizations Every Data Scientist Should Know Calculating Price Elasticity Through KNIME Stratified vs Cluster vs Quota Sampling The First Article About Theoretical Data Science (and easy to read) Introduction to Various Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Linear ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By David Westrom, VP of Business Development at MachineMetricsBy Graham Immerman, Director of Marketing at MachineMetricsThe Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) space is hot right now, as manufacturing represents perhaps the largest greenfield opportunity left for digitization. Yet, IoT platform implementations have historically had a high rate of failure within this vertical. What’s contributing to these failure rates, and what needs to change? In this post, we examine common approaches for enabling Industrial IoT initiatives, the pros and cons, and their culpability for the high failure rate. We then introduce a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Accenture and Avanade won the 2019 Microsoft Internet of Things Partner of the Year award this past spring. At the Microsoft Inspire partner conference in July, Brendan Mislin, Managing Director, Industry X.0 IoT Lead at Accenture, shared some insights and best practices that have helped this award-winning partner unlock the value of Azure IoT for our mutual customers. Figure 1 Petrofac, a leading oilfield services company, leverages Accenture’s Connected Construction solution Five of the best practices Mislin shared are below. For the complete discussion, view the interview. 1.    Expect IoT opportunities in all ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kevin-oliver; Artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) have become very popular recently due to their ability to both optimize processes and provide the deep insights that push enterprises and industries forward. In fact, 68 percent of respondents in a recent 451 Research Report, Accelerating AI with Data Management; Accelerating Data Management with AI noted that they are either using machine learning or plan to within the next three years.What’s more impressive is that 92 percent of those currently using machine learning – including companies that have it in proof ... Read More

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . When a transaction updates a row in an InnoDB table, InnoDB's MVCC implementation keeps old versions of the row in the InnoDB undo log. The old versions are kept at least until all transactions older than the transaction that updated the row are no longer open. At that point, the old versions can be deleted. InnoDB has purge process that is used to delete these old versions. Optimizing Purge Performance Configuring the Purge Threads The number of purge threads can be set by configuring the innodb_purge_threads system variable. This system variable can ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial cloud -- includes everything from Azure to Office 365 enterprise subscriptions to Dynamics 365 to LinkedIn services. After LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft it began moving its infrastructure to Azure. While moving LinkedIn to Azure could take some time, it demonstrates Microsoft Azure’s capabilities and ability to handle millions of transactions. Microsoft's strong enterprise heritage, software stack, and data center tools offer both familiarity ... Read More