Tag: scaling

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Andrew Kloman. By Andrew Kloman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe time has never been better to build a thriving business on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Moving to the AWS cloud provides companies with more agility, elasticity, cost savings, and the ability to expand their business footprint while developing a global reach to customers. AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners have the opportunity to see a 6X – 11X+ multiplier uplift over AWS spend when delivering a comprehensive suite of value-added services to customers. In this post, I will give APN Consulting Partners an overview of ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Philip Rathle, VP of Products | May 17, 2018  Author’s note: What a hectic week in the world of Neo4j! In addition to finalizing the delivery of Neo4j 3.4, we simultaneously built the GQL Manifesto, a call to support a common, unified Graph Query Language. Thank you to the graph community for your strong vote of support! If you have not already voted, please do so.The Neo4j graph database has always been the technology closest to the core of our mission: to help the world make sense of data.With today’s ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Steren Giannini, Product Manager, Google Cloud PlatformOne of the main benefits of Google App Engine is automatic scaling of your applications. Behind the scenes, App Engine continually monitors your instance capacity and traffic to ensure the appropriate number of instances are running. Today, we are rolling out the next generation scheduler for App Engine standard environment. Our tests show that it delivers better scaling performance and more efficient resource consumption—and lower costs for you.The new App Engine scheduler delivers the following improvements compared to the previous App Engine scheduler:an average of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ale Flores. By Ale Flores, Global Segment Lead for Blockchain at AWSBlockchain has the potential to enable new possibilities that were previously out of reach for many organizations. For enterprises globally, blockchain provides decentralized, secure, transparent, and immutable interactions, processes, and transactions. However, the fundamental aspects of blockchain that make it unique—such as its peer-to-peer distributed network architecture and heavy use of cryptography—constitute a steep learning curve for organizations that want to use the technology to change how they conduct business processes. Because of this, the promise of blockchain technology for many is ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dimitri Kravtchuk; Generally TPC-C benchmark workload is considered as one of the #1 references for Database OLTP Performance. On the same time, for MySQL users it's often not something which is seen as "the most compelling" for performance evaluations.. -- well, when you're still fighting to scale with your own very simple queries, any good result on something more complex may only look as "fake" ;-)) So, since a long time Sysbench workloads remained (and will remain) as the main #1 "entry ticket" for MySQL evaluation -- the most simple to install, to use, and to ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Peter Zaitsev | May 14, 2018 |  Posted In: Insight for DBAs, MySQL, MySQL 8.0 PREVIOUS POST Do you want to install MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? In this quick tutorial, I show you exactly how to do it in five minutes or less. This tutorial assumes you don’t have MySQL or MariaDB installed. If you do, it’s necessary to uninstall them or follow a slightly more complicated upgrade process (not covered here). Step 1: Install MySQL APT Repository Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, also known as Xenial, comes with a choice of MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10.0 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Build 2018 Last week, thousands of developers gathered in Seattle for Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, to learn how we are empowering them to advance the future of society with AI and the intelligent edge. This week's Azure.Source covers a lot of content. For a more concise (TL;DR) summary of Build 2018, check out the Microsoft press release, Microsoft Build highlights new opportunity for developers, at the edge and in the cloud. For a roll-up of all the Azure announcements, see: Azure Announcements from Microsoft Build. And if you want to ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald. Fractal complexity (source: Pixabay) Check out the full schedule for the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose, June 11-14, 2018. Let’s face it, your systems aren't getting any less complex, and the list of skills you need to build and maintain them keeps growing. Modern systems pose a number of thorny challenges: they are inherently complex and span multiple technologies, groups, and sometimes different organizations altogether. Most poignantly, they tend to fail in the most unexpected and spectacular ways. At Velocity this year, we’ve identified three primary areas of focus to help ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Anum Jang Sher. Gaining insights rapidly from data is critical to competitiveness in today’s business world. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), Microsoft’s fully managed analytics platform, leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to run complex interactive SQL queries at every level of scale. An enterprise data warehouse doesn’t exist in isolation but is part of a complete analytics solution that includes the ‘pipelines’ that extract, transform, and load data, often from many disparate sources, as well as staging and reporting layers. Tasks such as continuous integration and continuous delivery require extensive manual coding and doesn't ... 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. Announcements SQL + Notebooks + Charts. All in one platform. Mode Studio combines a SQL editor, Python & R notebooks, and a visualization builder in one platform. And it's free forever. Sign Up. Most organizations struggle to unlock the potential of data science to enhance decision-making and drive business value. Join Anaconda and guest speaker Forrester for a webinar on May 17 to learn best practices for scaling data ... Read More