This document discusses using Oracle Database's block change tracking and direct NFS features to enable fast cloning of databases for development and testing purposes at low cost. Block change tracking allows incremental backups to be performed quickly, while direct NFS allows database files to be copied over the network efficiently to create clones that only require storage for changed blocks. Examples are provided demonstrating how this can be used to regularly clone a production database to multiple developer environments.
MySQL exposes a collection of tunable parameters and indicators that is frankly intimidating. But a poorly tuned MySQL server is a bottleneck for your PHP application scalability. This session shows how to do InnoDB tuning and read the InnoDB status report in MySQL 5.5.
MySQL exposes a collection of tunable parameters and indicators that is frankly intimidating. But a poorly tuned MySQL server is a bottleneck for your PHP application scalability. This session shows how to do InnoDB tuning and read the InnoDB status report in MySQL 5.5.
Conference: HP Big Data Conference 2015
Session: Real-world Methods for Boosting Query Performance
Presentation: "Extra performance out of thin air"
Presenter: Konstantine Krutiy, Principal Software Engineer / Vertica Whisperer
Company: Localytics
Description:
Learn how to get extra performance out of Vertica from areas you never expected.
This presentation will illustrate how you can improve performance of your Vertica cluster without extra budget.
All you need is ingenuity, knowledge of Vertica internals, and the ability to challenge conventional wisdom.
We will show you real world examples on gaining performance by eliminating unneeded work, eliminating unneeded system waits and making your system operate more efficiently.
Visit my blog http://www.dbjungle.com for more Vertica insights
Nowadays, scaling and auto-scaling have become relatively easy tasks. Everyone knows how to set up auto-scaling environments - Auto-Scaling groups, Swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
But when we try to scale I/O Bound workloads:
- Message queues (Kafka, Rabbit, NATS)
- Distributed databases (Hadoop, Cassandra)
- Storage subsystems (CEPH, GlusterFS, HDFS),
the traditional auto-scaling mechanisms are just not enough.
Heavy calculations must be performed to determine the I/O bottlenecks. Rebalancing the data after a scaling event can take up to hours depending on your data & could, resulting in data loss if not properly designed.
We will deep dive into this type of workload and walk you through code samples you can apply in your own environment.
Presented at LISA18: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa18/presentation/babrou
This is a technical dive into how we used eBPF to solve real-world issues uncovered during an innocent OS upgrade. We'll see how we debugged 10x CPU increase in Kafka after Debian upgrade and what lessons we learned. We'll get from high-level effects like increased CPU to flamegraphs showing us where the problem lies to tracing timers and functions calls in the Linux kernel.
The focus is on tools what operational engineers can use to debug performance issues in production. This particular issue happened at Cloudflare on a Kafka cluster doing 100Gbps of ingress and many multiple of that egress.
Conference: HP Big Data Conference 2015
Session: Real-world Methods for Boosting Query Performance
Presentation: "Extra performance out of thin air"
Presenter: Konstantine Krutiy, Principal Software Engineer / Vertica Whisperer
Company: Localytics
Description:
Learn how to get extra performance out of Vertica from areas you never expected.
This presentation will illustrate how you can improve performance of your Vertica cluster without extra budget.
All you need is ingenuity, knowledge of Vertica internals, and the ability to challenge conventional wisdom.
We will show you real world examples on gaining performance by eliminating unneeded work, eliminating unneeded system waits and making your system operate more efficiently.
Visit my blog http://www.dbjungle.com for more Vertica insights
Nowadays, scaling and auto-scaling have become relatively easy tasks. Everyone knows how to set up auto-scaling environments - Auto-Scaling groups, Swarm, Kubernetes, etc.
But when we try to scale I/O Bound workloads:
- Message queues (Kafka, Rabbit, NATS)
- Distributed databases (Hadoop, Cassandra)
- Storage subsystems (CEPH, GlusterFS, HDFS),
the traditional auto-scaling mechanisms are just not enough.
Heavy calculations must be performed to determine the I/O bottlenecks. Rebalancing the data after a scaling event can take up to hours depending on your data & could, resulting in data loss if not properly designed.
We will deep dive into this type of workload and walk you through code samples you can apply in your own environment.
Presented at LISA18: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa18/presentation/babrou
This is a technical dive into how we used eBPF to solve real-world issues uncovered during an innocent OS upgrade. We'll see how we debugged 10x CPU increase in Kafka after Debian upgrade and what lessons we learned. We'll get from high-level effects like increased CPU to flamegraphs showing us where the problem lies to tracing timers and functions calls in the Linux kernel.
The focus is on tools what operational engineers can use to debug performance issues in production. This particular issue happened at Cloudflare on a Kafka cluster doing 100Gbps of ingress and many multiple of that egress.
USENIX ATC 2017 Performance Superpowers with Enhanced BPFBrendan Gregg
Talk for USENIX ATC 2017 by Brendan Gregg
"The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) in Linux has been enhanced in very recent versions to do much more than just filter packets, and has become a hot area of operating systems innovation, with much more yet to be discovered. BPF is a sandboxed virtual machine that runs user-level defined programs in kernel context, and is part of many kernels. The Linux enhancements allow it to run custom programs on other events, including kernel- and user-level dynamic tracing (kprobes and uprobes), static tracing (tracepoints), and hardware events. This is finding uses for the generation of new performance analysis tools, network acceleration technologies, and security intrusion detection systems.
This talk will explain the BPF enhancements, then discuss the new performance observability tools that are in use and being created, especially from the BPF compiler collection (bcc) open source project. These tools provide new insights for file system and storage performance, CPU scheduler performance, TCP performance, and much more. This is a major turning point for Linux systems engineering, as custom advanced performance instrumentation can be used safely in production environments, powering a new generation of tools and visualizations.
Because these BPF enhancements are only in very recent Linux (such as Linux 4.9), most companies are not yet running new enough kernels to be exploring BPF yet. This will change in the next year or two, as companies including Netflix upgrade their kernels. This talk will give you a head start on this growing technology, and also discuss areas of future work and unsolved problems."
Another year goes by, and most likely, another data access framework has been invented. It will claim to be the fastest, smartest way to talk to the database, and just like all those that came before it, it will not be. Because the best database access tool has been there for more than 30 years now, and that is PL/SQL. Although we all sometimes fall prey to the mindset of “Oh look, a shiny new tool, we should start using it," the performance and simplicity of PL/SQL remain unmatched. This session looks at the failings of other data access languages, why even a cursory knowledge of PL/SQL will make you a better developer, and how to get the most out of PL/SQL when it comes to database performance.
Working in Web Operations means dealing with production systems that in most cases needs to be operational 24×7x365.
To reach 99.99999% uptime, you must fail as little as possible.
This talk will go through a few real-world incidents and failures experienced by our small WebOps team, and outline what we are learning (the hard way), and how we’re trying to improve.
What could possibly go wrong? :-)
Troubleshooting Complex Performance issues - Oracle SEG$ contentionTanel Poder
From Tanel Poder's Troubleshooting Complex Performance Issues series - an example of Oracle SEG$ internal segment contention due to some direct path insert activity.
Velocity 2017 Performance analysis superpowers with Linux eBPFBrendan Gregg
Talk by for Velocity 2017 by Brendan Gregg: Performance analysis superpowers with Linux eBPF.
"Advanced performance observability and debugging have arrived built into the Linux 4.x series, thanks to enhancements to Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, or eBPF) and the repurposing of its sandboxed virtual machine to provide programmatic capabilities to system tracing. Netflix has been investigating its use for new observability tools, monitoring, security uses, and more. This talk will investigate this new technology, which sooner or later will be available to everyone who uses Linux. The talk will dive deep on these new tracing, observability, and debugging capabilities. Whether you’re doing analysis over an ssh session, or via a monitoring GUI, BPF can be used to provide an efficient, custom, and deep level of detail into system and application performance.
This talk will also demonstrate the new open source tools that have been developed, which make use of kernel- and user-level dynamic tracing (kprobes and uprobes), and kernel- and user-level static tracing (tracepoints). These tools provide new insights for file system and storage performance, CPU scheduler performance, TCP performance, and a whole lot more. This is a major turning point for Linux systems engineering, as custom advanced performance instrumentation can be used safely in production environments, powering a new generation of tools and visualizations."
The Economics of Scaling Cassandra - By Alex Bordei, Techie Product Manager at Bigstep
This presentation was made during the "Cassandra Summit 2014" Event, in London.
We benchmarked Cassandra on a number of configurations and we show what's the scaling profile. We test Cassandra on Docker as well as Cassandra's In-memory feature.
Follow Alex on Twitter: @alexandrubordei
Bigstep on Twitter: @BigStepInc
If you have any questions, let us know at hello@bigstep.com and we'll do our best to answer.
Stay informed: http://blog.bigstep.com/
Slides from the ITOUG events in Rome and Milan 2020.
Most people think of the Flashback features in Oracle as the "In Case of Emergency" switch, to only be used when some catastrophe has occurred on your database. And while it is true that Flashback will definitely help you 3 seconds after you press the Commit button and you realise that you probably needed to have a WHERE clause on that "delete all rows from the SALES table" SQL statement. Or for when you run "drop table" on the Production database, when you were just so sure that you were logged onto the Test system. But Flashback is not only for those "Oh No!" moments. It enables benefits for developers ranging from data consistency to continuous integration and data auditing. Tucked away in Enterprise Edition are six independent and powerful technologies that might just save your career—they will also open up a myriad of other benefits of well.
Analytic SQL functions, or "window functions have been there since 8.1.6, but they are still dramatically underused by application developers. This session looks at the syntax and usage of analytic functions, and how they can supercharge your SQL skillset.
Covers analytics from their inception in 8.1.6 all the through to enhancements in 18 and 19
Sangam 19 - Successful Applications on AutonomousConnor McDonald
The autonomous database offers insane levels of performance, but you won't be able to attain that if you are not constructing your SQL statements in a way that is scalable...and more importantly, secure from hacking
By expanding our knowledge of SQL facilities, we can let all the boring work be handled via SQL rather than a lot of middle-tier code, and we can get performance benefits as an added bonus. Here are some SQL techniques to solve problems that would otherwise require a lot of complex coding, freeing up your time to focus on the delivery of great applications.
APEX tour 2019 - successful development with autonomousConnor McDonald
The autonomous database offers insane levels of performance, but you won't be able to attain that if you are not constructing your SQL statements in a way that is scalable...and more importantly, secure from hacking
Apologies for most pics missing and awful layout...you can thank slideshare for that :-(
Slides from the APAC Groundbreakers Tour from Perth and Melbourne legs. This session covered the features in 18c, 19c and 20c, along with the new free database offerings from Oracle from OpenWorld 2019
Slides from OpenWorld. Flashback has been around for long time yet people assume it should entirely within the realm of the DBA. But with modern development techniques such as continuous integration/continuous deployment, flashback actually is a perfect for *developers*
Slides from the OpenWorld talk on read consistency. It is the feature that makes Oracle such a great database for performance and concurrency. But if misunderstood, it can lead to confusion for developers
Slides from OpenWorld 2019. Want to make sure your applications are slow, burn lots of CPU, and are easily broken into by hackers? Well...in reality, if you know how to do this, then you'll know how to avoid it.
Slides from Openworl 2019. A look at how to safely (and unsafely) kill sessions in the Oracle database, and how to perhaps avoid killing them altogether.
Flashback is not only for those "Oh No!" moments when we make a mistake. It enables benefits for developers ranging from data consistency to continuous integration and data auditing. Tucked away in Enterprise Edition are six independent and powerful technologies that might just save your career—they will also open up a myriad of other benefits of well.
Latin America Tour 2019 - 10 great sql featuresConnor McDonald
By expanding our knowledge of SQL facilities, we can let all the boring work be handled via SQL rather than a lot of middle-tier code, and we can get performance benefits as an added bonus. Here are some SQL techniques to solve problems that would otherwise require a lot of complex coding, freeing up your time to focus on the delivery of great applications.
Latin America Tour 2019 - slow data and sql processingConnor McDonald
Well done! You've come up with the killer idea for 2020. You've got the best UI design anyone has ever seen! Your modern application ticks all the boxes — serverless, functional, Kubernetes, microservices, API-based, the list goes on. It runs on every OS and every type of device. But unfortunately, all of this counts for absolutely NOTHING if your data access is slow or buggy. But an Autonomous database will fix all that right? Only if you understand the fundamentals of how SQL is processed by the database. For novice developers, SQL can be hard to understand and sometimes totally hidden from view under an ORM. Let's peel back the covers to show how SQL is processed, how to avoid getting hacked, and how to get data back to your application in a snappy fashion.
OG Yatra - upgrading to the new 12c+ optimizerConnor McDonald
The 12c optimizer has a vast array of improvements, but of course, functionality changes means that your SQL plans might also change when you upgrade. This slidedeck covers what has changed, and how to ensure better more stable performance when you upgrade.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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SQL> select * from CUSTOMERS;
CID FORENAME SURNAME DOB
-------- --------------- ----------------- ---------
101230 Sarah Johnson 01-JUN-75
101233 Michael Smith 13-FEB-69
101237 Peter Brown 24-OCT-82
SQL> select * from CUSTOMERS;
CID FORENAME SURNAME DOB
-------- --------------- ----------------- ---------
101230 Sarah Johnson 01-JUN-75
101252 MyTestGuy DoesümlautWork 01-JAN-01
101268 Spaces 01-JAN-01
prod
dev
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procedure MY_LATEST_PROC is
begin
for i in (
select *
from EVERY_PIECE_OF_DATA_WE_HAVE
where UNINDEXED_COLUMN = 10
)
loop
...
end;
SQL> exec MY_LATEST_PROC
PL/SQL Procedure completed successfully.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.03
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With the initialization parameter CLONEDB set
to true, snapshot clones of a pluggable
database are supported on any ... file systems
with Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS) enabled
(yet to verify)
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SQL> select * from v$sgastat
2 where name like '%change%';
POOL NAME BYTES
------------ -------------------------- ----------
shared pool change notification obj m 16416
shared pool change tracking state cha 2584
shared pool change notification regis 16416
shared pool change tracking recovery 262144
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SQL> SELECT (count(distinct b.fno||' '||bno) * 32)/1024 MB
2 FROM x$krcbit b,
3 (SELECT MIN(ver) min_ver, fno
4 FROM
5 (SELECT curr_vercnt ver,curr_highscn high,
6 curr_lowscn low,fno
7 FROM x$krcfde
8 UNION ALL
9 SELECT vercnt ver, high,
10 low, fno
11 FROM x$krcfbh
12 )
13 WHERE
14 (SELECT MAX(bd.checkpoint_change#)
15 FROM v$backup_datafile bd
16 WHERE bd.incremental_level <= 1) between low and high
17 GROUP BY fno ) sub
18 WHERE b.fno = sub.fno
19 AND b.vercnt >= sub.min_ver;
MB
----------
46.34375
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RMAN> RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE
WITH TAG 'rolling'
UNTIL TIME 'sysdate-3';
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RMAN> RUN {
RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE
WITH TAG 'rolling';
RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE
WITH TAG 'day3'
UNTIL TIME 'sysdate-3';
RECOVER COPY OF DATABASE
WITH TAG 'day7'
UNTIL TIME 'sysdate-7';
}