Imagine the scenario where you wonder into a clothing store to buy a t-shirt. You find a design you like in size “Medium” but it’s too tight (I guess #lockdown has been unkind to …| flashdba
I want you to imagine that you check in to a nice hotel. You’ve had a good day and you feel like treating yourself, so you decide to order breakfast in your room for the following morning. Wh…| flashdba
What happens when customers with on-prem databases decide they want to embrace the public cloud? If you’ve been following the story so far, it is my assertion that most of “the easy stu…| flashdba
There’s a battle going on right now between all of the public cloud vendors – a war in the clouds. And you might be surprised to hear what they are fighting over… They are fightin…| flashdba
Hands-on technical analysis of a novel data platform for high-performance block I/O in the cloud, tested by Tanel Poder, a database consultant and a long-time computer performance geek. Index Background and motivation Architecture and internals of the Silk Platform I/O throughput for table scanning (for your big data warehouses) IOPS, I/O latency and write performance (OLTP and data loads) Scaling out I/O performance in the cloud (demo of live operation) Summary and architectural opportunitie...| tanelpoder.com