If there is a “bottom line” to measuring the effectiveness of your big-data applications, it’s arguably performance, or how quickly those apps can finish the jobs they run. Let’s consider Spark. Spark ...

In his timeless masterpiece, The Art of War, Sun Tzu states: “…one who is skilled in warfare principles …takes the enemy’s walled city without attacking… His aim must be to take All-Under-Heaven ...

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CodaCache Last-Level Cache (LLC) IP, is a configurable, standalone cache designed to enhance system performance, data locality, scalability, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in system-on-chip ...

WordPress 6.1, scheduled for November 2022, will feature a “massive improvement to database performance” thanks to new post query caching. This new feature promises to make WordPress websites perform ...

Understand the caching mechanisms for the popular distributed SQL engine and how to use them to improve query speed and efficiency. Presto is a popular, open source, distributed SQL engine that ...

Implementing a successful storage solution is always a balance between capacity, performance and cost. Given unlimited resources, all data would be deployed on the fastest media possible, which today ...