The expected growth of ARM processors in data centers has been a hot topic for discussion for quite some time, and we were curious to see how it performs with PostgreSQL. The general availability of ARM-based servers for testing and evaluation was a major obstacle. The icebreaker was when AWS announced their ARM-based processors […]
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I wanted to start this post with the words “eBPF is the hot new thing”, but I think it’s already too late to write that. Running eBPF programs in production is becoming less of a peculiarity and more of a normal way to operate. Famously, Facebook runs about 40 BPF programs on each server. […]
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In this blog post, we will share some experiences with the hidden gem in MySQL called MyRocks, a storage engine for MySQL’s famous pluggable storage engine system. MyRocks is based on RocksDB which is a fork of LevelDB. In short, it’s another key-value store based on LSM-tree, thus granting it some distinctive features compared […]
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