Tag: scaling

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Floyd Smith. How does a major technology services company equip itself to compete in the digital age – and provide services so outstanding that they can significantly advance the business prospects of their customers? All while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and tightening SLAs – in some cases, by 10x or more? For one such company, the solution is to deliver real-time, operational analytics with Kafka and MemSQL. In this company, data flowed through several data stores, and from a relational, SQL database, into NoSQL data stores for batch query processing, and back into SQL for BI, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. EFA is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. With EFA, High Performance Computing (HPC) applications using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications using NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) can scale to thousands of CPUs or GPUs. To learn more about how to use Intel MPI with EFA, please visit EFA documentation.  To learn more about scaling HPC workloads with EFA, click here.   ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Todd Terwillegar; We’re the employees you would hire if you could. Responsive, helpful, and dedicated in ways automation simply can’t be. We’re your team. Each month we recognize one of our Most Helpful Humans in Hosting. Meet Wes Wes Mills is our amazing “mad” data scientist at Liquid Web in charge making the magic happen by curating and organizing the large amounts of data that comes into Liquid Web. In other words, he makes our customer experience better through data analysis and objective process changes. Wes is obsessed with the behaviors of people and how they ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Betsy Chernoff. This post is contributed by Mike Coleman | Developer Advocate for Lightsail | Twitter: @mikegcolemanThis is the final post in a series about getting a highly available WordPress site up and running on Amazon Lightsail. For reference, the other blog posts are: Implementing a highly available Lightsail database with WordPress Using Amazon S3 with WordPress to securely deliver media files Increasing security and performance using Amazon CloudFront In this post, you’ll learn how to stand up a Lightsail load balancer, create a snapshot of your WordPress server, deploy new instances from those snapshots, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; MySQL InnoDB Cluster consists of 3 components: MySQL Group Replication (a group of database server which replicates to each other with fault tolerance). MySQL Router (query router to the healthy database nodes) MySQL Shell (helper, client, configuration tool) In the first part of this walkthrough, we are going to deploy a MySQL InnoDB Cluster. There are a number of hands-on tutorial available online but this walkthrough covers all the necessary steps/commands to install and run the cluster in one place. We will be covering monitoring, management and scaling operations as well as some gotchas when ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rimma Nehme. This post was co-authored by Mikhail Shilkov, Software Engineer, Pulumi. Pulumi is reinventing how people build modern cloud applications, with a unique platform that combines deep systems and infrastructure innovation with elegant programming models and developer tools. We live in amazing times when people and businesses on different continents can interact at the speed of light. Numerous industries and applications target users around the globe: e-commerce websites, multiplayer online games, connected IoT devices, collaborative work and leisure experiences, and many more. All of these applications demand computing and data infrastructure in proximity to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bert Van Hoof. One of the most dynamic landscapes embracing Internet of Things (IoT) is the modern city. As urbanization grows, city leaders are under increasing pressure to make cities safer, accessible, sustainable, and prosperous. Underlying all these important goals is the bedrock that makes a city run: infrastructure. Whether it be water, electricity, streets, traffic lights, cities are increasingly using the Internet of Things (IoT) to manage their infrastructure by capturing and analyzing data from connected devices and sensors. This gives city managers real-time insights to improve operational efficiency and outcomes and to altogether ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Digital service providers are transforming their monetization systems to prepare for the upcoming demands of 5G and future digital services. Oracle Communications’ new cloud native deployment option for Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) addresses these demands by combining the features and extensibility of a proven, convergent charging system with the efficiency of cloud and DevOps agility. Oracle Communications’ cloud native BRM deployment option provides a modern monetization solution to capitalize on the opportunities presented by today’s mobile, fixed and cable digital services. It supports any service, industry or partner-enabled business model and provides a foundation ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports sort, slice, remove empty and conditional statements. With CloudWatch Metric Math, you can aggregate and transform metrics to create custom visualizations of your health and performance metrics. The new functions announced today allow you to sort metrics by performance indicators, slice the results to retrieve the highest or lowest values, and apply conditional logic using IF/AND/OR statements. All the new functions can be used to define alarms that take actions like sending notifications and auto scaling your service.   ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. Biplots are two-dimensional plots that help to visualize relationships in high dimensional data. A previous article discusses how to interpret biplots for continuous variables. The biplot projects observations and variables onto the span of the first two principal components. The observations are plotted as markers; the variables are plotted as vectors. The observations and/or vectors are not usually on the same scale, so they need to be rescaled so that they fit on the same plot. There are four common scalings (GH, COV, JK, and SYM), which are discussed in the previous article. This ... Read More