Recently, I’m dealing with Redis/Hiredis C library in order to implement flow statistics into our flowShield DDoS-Mitigation application. First, I’ve thought about using MySQL, as we already heavily use the MySQL C Library. However, MySQL has some serious performance issues and could (seriously) not cope with 4.000 Insert Queries per […]
Month: October 2020
Speedup block devices with bcache
Comparing NVMe drives with normal SSDs or even SAS/SATA HDDs is like comparing apples with pears in terms of performance. However, it’s not always feasible to run everything on all-flash storage, as it’s still quite costly. Thats were bcache steps into the game. Whats bcache? bcache is a kernel module, […]