Meanwhile on Paxos.

Nice find from 25 years ago: Larry Page working on the Google crawler.

Moving database workloads to #Nutanix? Benchmarking is easy with Nutanix X-Ray. One click-deploy 100 Postgres VMs onto a cluster and run the built-in PGBench workload. github.com/garyjlittle/xr… Workload designed by (GV) Venkateswaran Govindasamy

Using rwmixread with rate_iops in #fio may not do what you expect. n0derunner.com/2021/07/how-to…

Congrats YugabyteDB Great work being done by great people.

Steve Shaw, the author of HammerDB, will be giving a talk at The SQLite & Tcl Conference, Wednesday, November 17, 1050 – 1120 CT or 1550 – 1420 CT. Focus of the talk is why HammerDB scales better than other tools due to the language it uses (details in hammerdb.com/blog/uncategor…)

Same.

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Brilliant

This is a great talk from Steve Shaw author of HmmerDB courtesy of Percona. Lots of great advice on using the HammerDB tool (Obviously) but also benchmarking systems and databases in general youtu.be/PAktFHBT_QU tpcbenchmarks HammerDB

26 years.

I ran a bunch of DB performance experiments on Nutanix and RDS so you don’t have to. Part 1 n0derunner.com/2022/05/single…

OTD 1988: R.T. Morris unleashes the Morris worm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_wo… Ironically, his father was then the Chief Scientist of the NSA's National Computer Security Center.

What happens when you try to achieve the advertised bandwidth of a consumer NVMe drive? n0derunner.com/hunting-for-ba…

Native profiling people on Fedora will be happy phoronix.com/news/F38-fno-o…

Savage.

Look at the bright side of things, folks: We’ll be just one update away from killing the future super AI terminator.