I got some more good news from our DataStage team about the changes I made to the ODBC driver. Someone who had a job that was running at about 75 rows per second before my change now is running at 200 rows per second. It seems that simply enabling connection pooling for the ODBC driver gave us about a 25% increase in speed. You gotta love that.
Ghetto Cloud Foundry Home Lab
Over the past few months, I've been cobbling together my own Lab to be able to gain experience with Cloud Foundry. Sure, I could have gone the much simpler route of bosh-lite , but I wanted to get a broader set of experience with the underlying IaaS layer in conjunction with working with Cloud Foundry. My lab hardware was purchased from various places (eBay, Fry's, etc) when I could get deals on it. Rocking the Ghetto Lab At a high level, the hardware looks like this: Machine CPU Memory Storage Notes HP Proliant ML350 G5 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz 32 GB (Came with some disks, but mostly unused) vSphere Host 1, Added a 4 port Intel 82571EB Network Adapter HP Proliant ML350 G5 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz 32 GB (Came with some disks, but mostly unused) vSphere Host 2, Added a 4 port Intel 82571EB Network Adapter Whitebox FreeNAS server Intel Celeron CPU G1610 @ 2.60GHz 16 GB 3x 240GB MLC SSDs, in a ZFS stripe set, plus spinning d