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Yelp has completed a large-scale upgrade of its Apache Cassandra infrastructure, spanning more than 1,000 nodes, without any service downtime, offering a blueprint for managing stateful systems at scale. By Craig Risi
Last year’s acquisitions have now shipped products, and for the first time it is possible to compare the Snowflake and Databricks “Postgres-in-the-lakehouse” strategies as real things rather than as marketing decks. The acquisitions:…
The previous post on the Linux 7.0 pgbench regression ended with the same instruction every other Postgres performance post ends with: set huge pages. This post is the long version. If you have read the Postgres docs on huge_pages and…
There's a persistent belief in the database world that vertical scaling solves all problems. Need more throughput? Add CPUs. Running out of cache? More RAM. Queries hitting disk? Higher IOPS. It's a comforting philosophy because it's…