Sockets, Cores, and Threads, oh my!

Sockets, Cores, and Threads, oh my!

SUMMARY: Modern computing professionals must clearly distinguish between the physical processor socket, the independent execution core, and the dependent thread to accurately calculate a system’s true processing capacity in environments dominated by parallel...
MongoDB – WARNING: readConcern:majority is enabled

MongoDB – WARNING: readConcern:majority is enabled

If you’re running a 3 member ReplicaSet that uses an Arbiter as its third member, then you will be presented with this warning when you connect to the shell. When a node goes down in a PSA architecture (Primary, Secondary, Arbiter) the wiredTiger storage engine...
MongoDB – WARNING: This server is using MONGODB-CR

MongoDB – WARNING: This server is using MONGODB-CR

MongoDB-CR is the challenge response authentication mechanism used in MongoDB versions before 4.0. In version 4.0 this mechanism is removed and you must upgrade to the new mechanism SCRAM before you upgrade to 4.0. You will receive this warning if you have launched...
MySQL Max Connect Errors

MySQL Max Connect Errors

When connection requests to a MySQL database from a given host are interrupted, MySQL keeps track of the number of successive interruptions in the host cache. MySQL will eventually block the host, giving them a message [1129] “Host ‘host_name’ is...