Newsletter sent on 9th September 2019

Good Monday morning – if you are in Europe or in Africa.

No new contents on my website to report. However, I have plenty of contents about the web to share with you. Feel free to send me your comments! I try to answer everyone, possibly with some delay.

Articles from the web

Technical

• Get the most IOPS out of your physical volumes using LVM – How to merge and strip disks with LVM to optimise IOPS distribution
• Why does Vitess recommend 250GB per MySQL server? – Vitess is an open source solution to shard data in MySQL, originally developed by YouTube
• What’s new in Cassandra 4 (Alpha release)
• YugaByte DB 1.3.1 – An analysis by Jepsen
• Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example – A method to monitor the CPU
• Why You Need SQL Window Functions (part 1) – A gentle introduction to SQL window functions
• Solving the eight queen problem in SQL – A weird use case for common table expressions

IT and Database strategy

• On MariaDB. Interview with Michael Widenius – Some time ago, MariaDB acquired Clustrix. Here’s why and what to expect
• Comparing Failover Times for Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and ClusterControl – Note that the article is from SeveralNines. However, do you do this kind of comparisons to select cloud vendors?
• The Terrors and Joys of Terraform – “This article documents our journey to the cloud over the last three years using Terraform”

Business

• A record-breaking place to invest – A record-breaking place to invest – Scotland is a great place to invest, and IT is one of the sectors that are growing fast. If you are worried about uncertainty in the UK, keep in mind that brexit – especially a hard brexit – would make Scottish independence more likely.

Lifestyle, workplace

• 11 Best Practices for Working Remotely – Personally, I think that not everyone performs well when working remotely. Working from home requires some adjustment. Here’s some good advice.
• It’s later than you think – Keep this reading for when you have time, but don’t forget it. It’s a tale of a personal tragedy, and it can make us think about our mistakes before it’s too late.

Events

• Percona Live Europe 2019 – 30th September – 2th October, Amsterdam
• Digital Transformation Expo Europe – 9th-10th October, London

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Toodle pip,
Federico Razzoli