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No "Buts" About It: The Cloud Is Transforming Your Company's Business Processes
TL;DR: As IT managers gain confidence in the reliability and security of cloud services, it becomes more difficult for them to ignore the cloud's many benefits for all their business's operations....
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How Database Failure Left Harry Potter and Thousands of Travelers Stranded...
 Daniel Radcliffe. Photograph: Perou/GuardianTL;DR As the US State Department coped with massive database failure, thousands of travelers (and one Harry Potter star) were prevented entry to the United...
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Can A Silicon Valley CTO Save Government Software From Itself?
 TL;DR: Following several high-profile development disasters, government IT departments have received a mandate to change their default app-development approach from the traditional top-down model to...
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Cloud Database Security, Farms and Restaurants: The Importance of Knowing...
TL;DR: Securing your company's cloud-based assets starts by applying tried-and-true data-security practices modified to address the unique characteristics of virtual-network environments. Cloud...
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DevOps: The Slow Tsunami That's Transforming IT
TL;DR: Old divisions in IT departments between app development and operations are crashing to the ground as users demand more apps with more features, and right now! By combining agile-development...
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NoSQL Will Protect You From The Onslaught of Data Overload (or a bull...
TL;DR: As the amount of unstructured data being collected by organizations skyrockets, their existing databases come up short: they're too slow, too inflexible, and too expensive. What's needed is a...
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How Is Google Analytics So Damn Fast?
TL; DR: Google Analytics stores a massive amount of statistical data from web sites across the globe. Retrieving reports quickly from such a large amount of data requires Google to use a custom...
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The Key to Distributed Database Performance: Scalability
TL;DR: The realities of modern corporate networks make the move to distributed database architectures inevitable. How do you leverage the stability and security of traditional relational database...
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Contain(er) Yourself: Separating Docker Hype from the Tech's Reality
TL;DR: Even jaded IT veterans are sitting up and taking notice of the potential benefits of Docker's microservice model of app development, deployment, and maintenance. By containerizing the entire...
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The New Reality: Microservices Apply the Internet Model to App Development
TL;DR: As software becomes the force driving industries of all types and sizes, the nature of app development and management is changing fundamentally. Gone are the days of centralized control via...
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How to Handle Huge Databaase Tables
[title 1] How to Handle Huge Database Tables [title 2] Make Sure Your Database Tables Don't Slow Queries to a Crawl [title 3] Simple Ways to Ensure Your Database's Tables Don't Slow Queries Design your...
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Morpheus Lessons: Best Practices for Upgrading MySQL
TL;DR: Thinking about upgrading your MySQL database? When performing an upgrade, there are some factors you need to consider and some best practices that can be followed to help ensure the process goes...
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Password Encryption: Keeping Hackers from Obtaining Passwords in Your Database
TL;DR: When dealing with a user password, you want to be very careful in how this information is saved. Passwords stored in plain text within your database are a serious security risk both to you and...
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Making Software Development Simpler: Look for Repeatable Results, Reusable...
TL;DR: Software is complex -- to design, develop, deliver, and maintain. Everybody knows that, right? New app-development approaches and fundamental changes to the way businesses of all types operate...
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The Three Most Important Considerations in Selecting a MongoDB Shard Key
TL;DR: The efficient operation of your MongoDB database depends on which field in the documents you designate as the shard key. Since you have to select the shard key up front and can't change it...
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"Too Many Connections": How to Increase the MySQL Connection Count To Avoid...
If you don't have enough connections open to your MySQL server, your users will begin to receive a "Too many connections" error while trying to use your service. To fix this, you can increase the...
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Your Options for Optimizing the Performance of MySQL Databases
A database can never be too optimized, and DBAs will never be completely satisfied with the performance of their creations. As your MySQL databases grow in size and complexity, taking full advantage of...
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MySQL's Index Hints Can Improve Query Performance, But Only If You Avoid the...
In most cases, MySQL's optimizer chooses the fastest index option for queries automatically, but now and then it may hit a snag that slows your database queries to a crawl. You can use one of the three...
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A New Twist to Active Archiving Adds Cloud Storage to the Mix
Companies large and small are taking a fresh look at their data archives, particularly how to convert them into active archives that deliver business intelligence while simultaneously reducing...
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Cloud-based Disaster Recovery: Data Security Without Breaking the Bank
The necessity of having a rock-solid disaster-recovery plan in place has been made abundantly clear by recent high-profile data breaches. Advances in cloud-based DR allow organizations of all sizes to...
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