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Alexander Podelko, a performance expert working with Oracle, recently wrote a blog post in which he takes a look at the current state of the APM market and what he thinks needs to change in order for companies to get … Mar. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EST  Reads: 1,816
I met Peter Griess last night and heard him talk about his career. Even though he still has plenty of years ahead of him, he has already worked for NetApp, Yahoo, and now Facebook. He was part of a nine-person … Continue r...
If you talk to the average software user, geospatial or not, about open source software you usually find three camps: Lovers, Haters, and Converters. Let's put these camps in crudely defined boxes: Open source "Lovers" are the lifers that live, breathe, and have never used anything bu...
In the first part of our series we described how to use find (and locate) to search for files using their names. Today we are going to review how to utilize find in a less common but very useful way. But first a few words on testing (okay, this might not be necessary for everyone, but ...
Before reading this article, I highly suggest to get familiar with all the concepts of the previous article regarding IO tuning. Your IO please, sir How is your IO characterized? Yes, this question has to be asked yet again. It’s a big difference when tuning for random access rea...
People who are familiar with me know that there are two things I’m not forgiving about. The first is backups, the second is security. If backups interest you, perhaps we can discuss it some other time. This time we’re going to discuss security. I’m going to outline in the following a...