Tag: Cluster
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Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon:
Borg is a way of efficiently parceling work across Google’s vast fleet of computer servers, and according to Wilkes, the system is so effective, it has probably saved Google the cost of building an extra data center.… Continued
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SQL Server Redundancy
Andrew Fryer wrote a reference post about SQL Server Redundancy earlier this month about the pros and cons of clustering and mirroring, so it’s about time I mention it here! His motivation was an internal request at Microsoft:
If there are internal Microsoft staff who don’t know when to use what, then I imagine there must still be confusion in the real world about these two approaches.… Continued