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OLTP DB Optimizations 102 – Group Commits

October 17, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Group Commits

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if we can commit several transactions at the same time – RDBMS needs to fsync() our DB logs to physical disks only once

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if going our preferred way of single-writing-DB connection – make sure NOT to use RDBMS-level Group Commit

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IXOn.ProgrammingOptimizations

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OLTP DB Optimizations 102 –100% Coherent App-Level Cache for Single-writing-DB-connection

October 10, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Caching

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with our app-level cache, we’re guaranteed to get exactly the same results as if we’d be querying the underlying database.

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why settle for invalidation when we can modify cache accordingly, saving on the extra DB request when we’re dealing with the same USER again?

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IXOn.ProgrammingOptimizations

Tagged With: DatabaseOLTPCache
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Eight Ways to Handle Non-Blocking Returns in Message-Passing Programs - with Script

October 3, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Filed under: On.System Architecture(Re)ActorsOtherAnnouncements

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CPPCON Day #5. Miscellaneous

October 1, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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I’m back from #CPPCON2017 now, and can report on the last day of it. First (and IMO foremost <wink />), there was my own talk on “Eight Ways to Handle Non-blocking Returns in Message-passing Programs: from C++98 via C++11 to C++20”. Not sure whether it was exciting enough (and 3 or 4 people left the […]

Filed under: OtherReports

Tagged With: C/C++GCC/Clang
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