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Managing the Performance of Grafana/Prometheus Dashboards using Nginx & Lua

Is your Prometheus performance causing your Grafana experience to suffer? Could you explain which of your tens of ...

Machine Learning

Fairness and Bias in Machine Learning

As machine learning becomes more widely used for automated decision-making, we must identify issues of fairness in ML ...

MongoDB

MongoDB Backups and Point In Time Recovery – Part 3

Enhancing data protection through PITR This is the third and final post in the series of blog posts for MongoDB replica ...

Oracle

What You Need to Know About Oracle EBS 12.2 CPU – January 2023

I recently applied the January 2023 released E-Business Suite Release 12.2 CPU patches following the release document ...

Database

Your complete guide: Point-In-Time-Restore (PITR) using pg_basebackup

Point-In-Time-Restore using pg_basebackup on PostgreSQL I had a conversation with another DBA about interview ...

Google Workspace

How Do I Merge Two Google Workspace Domains?

Bringing google workspace under one umbrella From merging domains and transferring accounts to rebranding to data ...

Oracle

Identifying the Root Cause of High CPU Usage by e-Business Suite R12.2 OA Core server processes

A new client was experiencing regular issues with its OA Core servers on its EBS 12.2 environment. The issue caused ...

Oracle

OEM 13c – Ultimate monitoring guide

Nowadays monitoring the IT environment is one of the most complex, and important, tasks in any corporation. OEM is a ...

Oracle

Oracle DBMS_CLOUD package with AWS S3

The package DBMS_CLOUD was first introduced in the Autonomous Database to provide a simple way to interact with an ...

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The Relationship Between Data Strategy & Data Governance

Building a unified data framework strategy In our previous post, we discussed value measures, both absolute and ...

Cloud

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 2

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are popular platforms for data streaming applications. However, provisioning and managing ...

MySQL

Find and remove unused & duplicate indexes in MySQL

Overview It is a general rule of thumb, that the more indexes you have on a table, the slower the INSERTs, UPDATEs, and ...

Analytics

Hiring Your First Data Scientist

We talk about data science daily and the immense value it can bring an organization when understanding data assets and ...

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MySQL 8.0 – Invisible Indexes

Overview In this blog, we aim to discuss the new MySQL 8.0 feature: invisible indexes and how to manage index ...

Oracle

ADOP edition cleanup

Oracle e-Business Suite administrators have access to pretty extensive documentation regarding Patching procedures. In ...

Cloud

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Recently, I was helping a client with their AWS Elastic File Service (EFS), which is a managed NFSv4.1 service, with ...

Oracle

Using Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) to Restrict Cores

Organizations usually maintain Oracle licences for Oracle RDBMS Enterprise Edition on a per-core basis. It is possible ...

Oracle

Interesting variations in outcome when cloning a CDB with a subset of PDBs in Oracle

Background Recently I was working on a client request where a CDB along with a subset of its PDBs had to be cloned to a ...

Pythian Life

What to Expect When Interviewing with Pythian

Welcome to Pythian’s recruitment process! We haven’t met yet, but if you’re considering a role here at Pythian, you’ll ...

Google Workspace

Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Introduction Google Workspace is an ideal collaboration and productivity tool: From Google Drive and Docs, to Sheets ...

Analytics

Creating your Strategy Storyboard

Background In our previous post we explored how to inventory existing data assets as a baseline for understanding what ...

Google Cloud

Secure Data Ingestion and its Impact on Cloud Modernization

Secure data ingestion is an essential component of cloud modernization—and an essential next step in the broader effort ...

Google Cloud

Cloud Armor pt. 2 – Customization of Rules

Cloud armor advanced features In my last post, I discussed a basic Cloud Armor setup and how to tune it. However, I ...

Cassandra

Why your Cassandra cluster scales poorly

Apache Cassandra promises linear scalability and workload distribution, among many other features—and rightly so. ...

Oracle

How to deploy a Cockroach DB Cluster in GCP – Part I

Introduction CockroachDB is a distributed SQL Database that has been gaining popularity in the last years because of ...

Oracle

How to get information from multiple PDBs

Background Not so long ago, I was faced with a request to collect information from several schemas located in multiple ...

MySQL

pt-online -schema corner case: When you don’t want to replicate your alter activities across the whole cluster.

Intro When we want to perform a heavy ALTER TABLE against a several gigabytes table the options are quite a few but the ...

Cassandra

Cassandra consistency level guide

When I started learning Cassandra, I noticed some concepts were not well explained, and it might be helpful for ...

Pythian Life

Hello from India

The first postcard of 2023 is from a coastal city where Gopi Kampa helps streamline the onboarding process while ...

Videos

International Women’s Day 2023: A Note from Keith Angell

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Managing the Performance of Grafana/Prometheus Dashboards using Nginx & Lua

Fairness and Bias in Machine Learning

MongoDB Backups and Point In Time Recovery – Part 3

What You Need to Know About Oracle EBS 12.2 CPU – January 2023

Your complete guide: Point-In-Time-Restore (PITR) using pg_basebackup

How Do I Merge Two Google Workspace Domains?

Identifying the Root Cause of High CPU Usage by e-Business Suite R12.2 OA Core server processes

OEM 13c – Ultimate monitoring guide

Oracle DBMS_CLOUD package with AWS S3

The Relationship Between Data Strategy & Data Governance

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 2

Find and remove unused & duplicate indexes in MySQL

Hiring Your First Data Scientist

MySQL 8.0 – Invisible Indexes

ADOP edition cleanup

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Using Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) to Restrict Cores

Interesting variations in outcome when cloning a CDB with a subset of PDBs in Oracle

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Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Creating your Strategy Storyboard

Secure Data Ingestion and its Impact on Cloud Modernization

Cloud Armor pt. 2 – Customization of Rules

Why your Cassandra cluster scales poorly

How to deploy a Cockroach DB Cluster in GCP – Part I

How to get information from multiple PDBs

pt-online -schema corner case: When you don’t want to replicate your alter activities across the whole cluster.

Cassandra consistency level guide

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