Tag Archives: databases
Virtual Server vs. Real Server Disk Drive Speed
It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic. For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI … Continue reading
The Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter
There are many sources that feed my insatiable need for cloud computing and infrastructure news. One of these that I have been following for a while I wanted to share with my readers. It’s the Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter from the … Continue reading
Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized
It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading
Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel
What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases? There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything. Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop … Continue reading