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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule.

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An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. My list stopped in 2007, so now that 2012 is almost at its end it is a good moment to add the next 5 years to the list. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. 2007: Foo Fighters, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Comments ().

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). billion in revenues.

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Effective Concurrency: Prefer Using Futures or Callbacks to Communicate Asynchronous Results

Sutter's Mill

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007).

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