In a typical Oracle database implementation, you’ll want to baseline or benchmark your storage. The storage team will hand over, and you’ll run a battery of tests using software like bonnie++ or ORION. You’ll make sure that the results…
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Oracle ORION I/O benchmark results for AWS EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance type
Tagged with: aws, cloud, database, ec2, oracle, performance
Posted in Consulting, Programming, Technology
Posted in Consulting, Programming, Technology
Debugging parameter mismatch across RAC database instances with R, dba_hist, and gv$parameter
Did you find this post useful? Does your organization need Oracle services? We can help. Much of this morning went into investigating strange ADDM reports on a two-node Oracle RAC database. For some reason, there were statistically improbable differences…
Tagged with: database, ggplot2, optimizer, oracle, r, rac
Posted in Consulting, Programming, Technology
Posted in Consulting, Programming, Technology
Legal Informatics with AWS CloudSearch – Slides for tonight’s AWS Michigan meetup
Tonight, Eric and I will be presenting back-to-back talks at the AWS Michigan meetup (hosted by the Tech Brewery this time). Eric will be detailing a large Matlab HPC experiment we ran this summer to optimize parameters for a…
Tagged with: aws, cloud, cloudsearch, eDiscovery, legal informatics, solr
Posted in Consulting, Law, Programming, Technology
Posted in Consulting, Law, Programming, Technology
Wordcloud of the Healthcare/ACA (NFIB v. Sebelius) Opinion
Here’s a wordcloud of the NFIB et al. v. Sebelius et al. opinion. Very interesting coalitions formation. If you’re interested in the R and Java code for generating these wordclouds, please see my post on Arizona et al. v.…
Tagged with: heal, law, legal informatics, programming, visualization
Posted in Consulting, Programming
Posted in Consulting, Programming
Wordcloud of the Arizona et al. v. United States opinion
Here’s one purely for fun – a wordcloud built from the Supreme Court’s opinion on Arizona et al. v United States. Word clouds, though certainly not the most scientific of visualization techniques, are often engaging and “fun” ways to lead…
