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Stop Doing Cloud

An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.

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AMD EPYC Performance Testing with systemd

With packet.net making bare metal servers available to cloud users, Percona CTO Vadim Tkachenko enjoys the opportunity to carry out some performance benchmarks with EPYC CPU, and experiences some surprising results running Percona Server for MySQL under systemd.

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Launching Route 53 Files

Four decades ago, when the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server launched, it stored DNS records in "zone files". You could edit these files in vi , but BIND had to be told to reload them before your changes took effect. Later, other DNS servers came along, like Daniel Bernstein's tinydns, which served records directly…