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Attila Szegedi on JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter

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JRuby,
Rhino,
Ruby,
JVM Languages,
Cassandra,
Java,
Sharding,
Dynamic Languages,
QCon San Francisco 2011,
MySQL,
GarbageCollection,
BigTable,
NoSQL,
Database Design,
Compilers,
Languages,
Open Source,
Clustering & Caching,
QCon,
Relational Databases,
Asynchronous Architecture,
Programming,
Database,
Infrastructure,
Conferences,
Performance & Scalability,
Redis

Attila Szegedi talks about performance tuning Java and Scala programs at Twitter: how to approach GC problems, the importance of asynchronous I/O, when to use MySQL/Cassandra/Redis, and much more.

Scaling with MongoDB

Topics
MongoDB,
Sharding,
Distributed Document Oriented Database,
Use Cases,
Strange Loop 2010,
Strange Loop,
Database Design,
NoSQL,
Project Management,
Architecture,
Agile,
Performance & Scalability,
Conferences,
Database

Roger Bodamer provides advice on scaling out MongoDB using replica sets and auto-sharding, plus tips for database deployment and scaling use cases.

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Windows Azure Gets Node.js, SQL Azure Federation, Increased DB Limits

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SQL Azure,
Windows Azure,
Sharding,
Azure,
PaaS,
Platforms,
.NET,
Database Design,
Cloud Computing,
Database,
Node.js,
Programming

Windows Azure team announced major updates including support for Node.js, better scalability for SQL Azure through Federation and higher individual DB Size limits (upto 150 GB), a limited preview for Hadoop and more.