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D&D of MOGs: Vol. VII-IX (1st beta), page 4:

Back End Tools for MOGs

posted July 11, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Make sure that your reports are CSR-driven.”
Another Quote:	“The vast majority of Back-End Tools are intended for NON-programmers and NON-admins.”
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posted July 4, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“We need to monitor EVERYTHING we can afford to monitor.”
Another Quote:	“Monitoring data doesn’t really require ACID transactions.”
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posted June 27, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“it is DB which is usually The Bottleneck™ – it means that we’re saving this enormous amount of load, exactly where it really matters.”
Another Quote:	“as discussed above, the real-world task is always about scaling the whole system, including database; and in this regard Stateless-App-based systems exhibit significant problems.”
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posted June 13, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Contrary to popular belief, there are benefits of Docker containers which go beyond providing poorly written programs with exact versions of their dependencies”
Another Quote:	“I do not buy a rather popular argument that “to achieve scalability, apps and middleware should be stateless””
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posted June 6, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“This communication channel (coming from Operations back to Development) is extremely important to have a game which is able to work anywhere-reliably in the real world”
Another Quote:	“Most importantly, our processes should allow these different production cycles to co-exist.”
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posted May 30, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“for quite a few applications out there, the most important feature of the RAID is not even redundancy, but greatly improved write latency. Moreover – this is the thing which we cannot possibly get from software RAID (!).”
Another Quote:	“As a rule of thumb – I am trying to keep the size of OLTP DB small enough to fit into RAM of the OLTP DB Server.”
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posted May 23, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“beware: “there are distros beyond the RedHat/Debian dichotomy – but if you’re reading this section looking for my advice on it – most likely you still have too little experience running Linux to look in that direction”
Another Quote:	“every time I disable Active Directory Service from a production server – I feel as a doctor who successfully removed a cancer tumor from a patient”
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