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Designing for effective database performance efficiency

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Designing for effective database performance efficiency

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- [Instructor] Now we come to databases. I don't think you could even think of a database that isn't joined at the hip to an application. There's not too many applications hosted in the cloud where there isn't a number of databases, but which one? So you have to look at your requirements, and if it's in a database, you want that data to be available and you probably want it to be as consistent as possible. So considerations, a little different than just an EBS volume. We want durability, we want multiple copies. I always like three copies of my data. And potentially I might want to consider that the database engine can scale based on demand. I want to know how it can handle queries. And then I have to take a look at where are my end users, clients of this application. What do I have to do to satisfy their query capabilities? And if I have replicated data, then there's going to have to be an acceptable amount of…

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