TCP/IP is one of the most common suite of networking protocols used. This was first proposed in an RFC in 1989. RFC or request for comment are documents containing methods, innovations, protocols, etc related to the internet. These RFCs may…
Recently I received an alert that the memory utilization on one of my servers was more than 85%. Now, this is an SQL server running on a Windows machine. My first reflex was let’s set an upper limit to the…
If you have ever worked with an SQL server, may it be as a sysadmin, DBA, or a developer, you might have noticed that SQL server often takes a lot of memory on the server. Most of the time, we…
What is ElasticSearch? Elasticsearch is an opensource search and analytics engine. It is used to analyze and process data like logs, time series data, etc. ElasticSearch is built using Java and Apache Lucene. ElasticSearch uses the inverted index at its…
What happens when you type a domain name in your browser? We all know that computers understand only IP addresses and not domain names, so how are domain names mapped to IP addresses? Most people would know that there is…
Almost everyone who has worked with DBs has heard about indexing. We often do indexing to improve the performance of our applications. But how many of us know exactly how indexing works? You might be wondering why you need to…