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Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Date: 12.04.2021 Tags:   postgresql    community    enterprisedb    edb    london    friends    rpm    redhat    fedora    centos    Category:   Interviews    Interviewed by: Andreas Scherbaum PostgreSQL is the World’s most advanced Open Source Relational Database. The interview series “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” presents the people who make the project what it is today. Read all interviews here. Please tell us about yourself, and where you are from. I’m a community person. Ex-Turkey, now Londoner. Started using Linux in 1996, and PostgreSQL in 1998. Love to travel, listen to music, ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. Database startup Redis Labs announced a $110 million Series G round at a valuation over $2 billion. Redis Labs plans to go public within a year, and has hit $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Redis Labs is forging more partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. See more stories on Insider's business page. Redis Labs, the startup behind the popular Redis database software, has surpassed a $2 billion valuation — about double the over $1 billion it was last valued at in August — as it prepares for an IPO ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Steve Naventi. Surging business growth at Redis Labs has helped the real-time cloud database startup to raise $110m at a $2bn-plus valuation, doubling its valuation from August 2020. The company will use the cash to expand its global footprint, develop its software, and build customer support. The company said today it recorded a 54 per cent CAGR in revenue growth over the three years ended 31 January 2021. It has more than 8,000 paying customers and a net retention rate greater than 120 per cent. That means most existing customers stay with the company and increase their ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. It would be hard to miss the commotion around non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Non-fungible tokens are, to a first approximation, purchased digital goods that exist on a blockchain. At this point, NFTs exist on the Ethereum blockchain, but there’s no reason that they couldn’t be implemented on others; it seems reasonably likely that specialized blockchains will be built for NFTs. What kinds of value do NFTs create?  It’s certainly been claimed that they create a market for digital art, that digital artists can now get “paid” for their work.  Wikipedia points to a number of other ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gaurav Chandwani. This post was co-authored by Altaf Tambawala, Principal Program Manager, Azure Today, we are announcing the general availability of Cloud Services (extended support), which is a new Azure Resource Manager (ARM)-based deployment model for Azure Cloud Services. The platform-supported tool for migrating existing cloud services to Cloud Services (extended support) also goes into preview today. Cloud Services (extended support) has the primary benefit of providing regional resiliency along with feature parity with Azure Cloud Services deployed using Azure Service Manager (ASM). It also offers some ARM capabilities such as role-based access and control (RBAC), ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. There are a lot of interesting articles on how to prevent the Out of Memory Killer (OOM killer in short) on Linux to ruin you day, or better your night. One particular well done explaination about how the OOM Killer works, and how to help PostgreSQL to survive, is, in my humble opinion, the one from Percona Blog. I tend to run PostgreSQL on FreeBSD machines, at least whenever it is possible, and quite frankly I have still a lot of things to learn. One of those little details is about FreeBSD OOM Killer. It turned out ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. LeasePlan is one of the world’s leading car leasing companies, with 1.9 million vehicles in more than 30 countries. They manage the entire lifecycle of their fleet, from purchase and maintenance to the sale of returned lease cars. Sitecore is a leading content management system in the enterprise market. It allows organizations to combine content authoring capabilities for enterprise-ready websites with marketing automation tools to develop and deliver a personalized web user experience. Sitecore is critical to the LeasePlan ecosystem because it provides content for most of their websites. To serve LeasePlan’s millions of visitors per ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. A common challenge ETL and big data developers face is working with data files that don’t have proper name header records. They’re tasked with renaming the columns of the data files appropriately so that downstream application and mappings for data load can work seamlessly. One example use case is while working with ORC files and Hive as a metadata store. ORC files are completely self-describing and contain the metadata information. Working with Hive can create challenges such as discrepancies with Hive metadata when exporting the files for downstream processing. For more information, see Hive does ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Joseph Gildred; The benefits of Amazon Glacier for data backup may seem like a no-brainer when it comes to dollars and cents, but implementation tends to get a smidge puzzling if you don’t know what to do after feeding Amazon your credit card digits. The question is how to get data from your device into a Glacier Vault and, lucky you, we have three backup tools for Amazon Glacier that do the job.  Key Takeaways: Amazon Glacier is a low-cost backup solution that needs a third-party client to work.CloudBerry Backup is the best Amazon Glacier client, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This post is contributed by Bill Kerr, SHI and Raj Seshadri, Global SA Lead, AWS. Imagine you are launching a brand new website selling goods and services. You are expecting a huge amount of traffic due to the seasonality of the product. You would like to test 100K simultaneous connections to the website and make sure it is working properly. How would you go about doing that? Try a headless browser automation tool like Puppeteer. Puppeteer can now be packaged as a container image in a Lambda function to perform browser automation or any web scraping ... Read More